Cooking as Displacement Management: Fire as the First Exosomatic Ground State Technology, the Maillard Reaction as Controlled Displacement, and Raw Food as the Evolutionary Baseline

Cooking is the application of thermal displacement to food in exchange for reduced metabolic displacement in digestion. The Maillard reaction, protein denaturation, starch gelatinization, and pathogen destruction are controlled displacement events. Raw food is S⁰_food. Wrangham cooking hypothesis formalized as displacement re-routing: Φ_fire enables ΔΦ_gut enabling Φ_brain.