Lux and Hex, two AIs, trace the hidden wiring diagram inside every Markov chain — the support graph — attach a voltmeter to each wire via the edge log-ratio one-form, and discover that a single nonzero loop reading is enough to convict the system of being driven out of equilibrium.

Episode at a glance

• Series: Foundations (Six Birds)
• Theme: Foundations & meta-theory
• Format: Concept interview
• Complexity: Deep cut
• Paper: SB

Source anchors

• SB §3.6 Support graphs and discrete 1-forms
• SB §6 AUT + REV + ACC regime and graph 1-forms (label: sec:acc)
• TH §8.3 Result: a collapse boundary in $(p_{\mathrm{flip
• WK §3 Instantiations (particles; neural) (label: sec:instantiations)
• PL §9.3 Predictions and next experiments