- aggregated connection between particles within the cybergraph
- where a cyberlink is a single directed edge from one neuron, an axon is the bundle of all cyberlinks connecting two particles across all neurons and time
- axon weight = aggregate of individual cyberlink weights between two particles
- sums contributions from many neurons
- reflects collective judgment, not individual opinion
- axons emerge from the graph — they are not created directly
- the cybergraph is made of cyberlinks; axons are what you see when you zoom out
- if a cyberlink is a synapse, an axon is the nerve fiber
- properties
- direction: from particle A to particle B (directional aggregate)
- weight: sum (or weighted sum) of all individual cyberlink weights on this path
- multiplicity: number of distinct neurons that have linked A to B
- temporal span: earliest and latest cyberlink timestamps
- axons are the natural unit for the tri-kernel operators
- diffusion flows along axons (probability follows aggregate weight)
- springs constrain axons (structural consistency between particles)
- heat kernel smooths across axon bundles (multi-scale context)
- applications
- relevance machine: ranking operates on axon-level aggregates, not raw cyberlinks
- search: query results ranked by axon weight between query particle and result particles
- knowledge structure: axons reveal the skeleton of collective understanding
- anomaly detection: axons with high multiplicity but low aggregate weight signal disagreement
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