Graph Attract
The topology of connections determines more about a system’s behavior than the properties of any individual component. Graph structure is the primitive — of intelligence, of civilization, of thermodynamics.
Nodes
Humans as negentropy engines — taking in energy, maintaining order, producing surplus structure that propagates through the network.
Edges
Communication, trade, shared tools — the diffusion paths that determine how capability-energy flows through connected systems.
Attractors
Basins the system falls into — some productive, some traps. The graph topology determines which exist and how deep they are.