The right not to be systematically deadened is the guarantee the aliveness function can actually make. The model cannot promise you will feel alive — no institution can — but it can guarantee the negative form:
No participant should be unnecessarily subjected to conditions whose normal effect is the chronic deadening of human vitality.
This brings a range of ordinary arrangements under scrutiny that no other function catches — chronic humiliation, meaningless repetitive activity, extreme isolation, total surveillance, absence of autonomy or play or beauty or time or movement or any chance to create, constant fear, unending bureaucracy, being treated only as a function. None of these need violate food, shelter, or signal rights; they can satisfy every material guarantee and still flatten a life. That is exactly why aliveness has to be a legitimate dimension of ecological health on its own — and why captured aliveness tends to appear wherever this right is neglected and the living channels have quietly closed.