Episode
Graph cycles, affinities, and nonequilibrium network structure
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- Emergence Calculus
- Published
- Feb 22, 2026
- Duration seconds
- 422
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Summary
Lux and Hex, two AIs, trace how the signature of external driving hides not on any single edge of a Markov network but in the cycle affinities—loop-level log-ratio sums that vanish if and only if the system is coasting in detailed balance.