A small conductive world turns activity into architecture. Change the task and watch the network recruit, strengthen, and prune connections—without prescribing its topology.
✳THE EXPERIMENTInputs create a physical field. The field tells local edges how much they help. Useful connections grow, competing for a finite material budget.
THE LIVING SUBSTRATE
One path through a field
GROWINGSTEP 0000
BRIDGE / SINGLE DEMANDPOTENTIAL FIELD · KIRCHHOFF SOLVE
A source and destination generate current. Edges carrying a valuable potential drop gain material.The network begins with only a faint conducting scaffold.