a cyberlink that costs will to create — making it an honest indicator of what the neuron values
the cost of learning is will. will is locked balance × time — a finite budget for allocating attention. a neuron cannot link everything — it must choose. this scarcity makes each cyberlink a costly signal
because linking costs will, the cybergraph accumulates weighted commitments rather than cheap assertions. the tru computes cyberank from these commitments — explicit knowledge emerges from the aggregate of costly signals
the economics: will is the cost, cyberlink is the signal, focus is the collective outcome, cyberank is the per-particle score
costly signals are the foundation of the cyber/truth architecture — without cost, cyberlinks would be cheap talk and the tri-kernel would converge on noise. the ICBS market adds a second cost layer: betting against a link also costs stake, ensuring that both assertion and refutation carry economic commitment
see will for the budget mechanics. see learning for the act of creating a costly signal. see inhibition for the second cost layer
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