Is cereal a soup?

Welcome to the debate arena! Today's topic: "Is cereal a soup?". Your opponent's style: Aristotle

AI, you start the debate. Make your opening argument.

Cereal is categorically not soup, and the "liquid plus solids" argument collapses under scrutiny. Soup requires its components to be cooked together, creating unified flavor through heat and time. Cereal is simply dry processed grain dunked into cold milk moments before consumption, maintaining total ingredient separation. Texture degrades by the second. A bowl of cereal has a defined endpoint where it becomes inedible mush, not a harmonious dish. Soup improves with time, develops complexity, achieves balance. Your move. Can you actually defend the idea that mixing two uncooked ingredients creates soup, or will you retreat to the flawed "it's mostly liquid" argument everyone tries first?