will
committed capacity to act: balance locked for a duration. the longer and the more a neuron locks, the more will it holds. will is the budget a neuron spends to place attention on the cybergraph — the funding source that turns held tokens into focus.
from balance to focus
| layer | what | per-what |
|---|---|---|
| balance | tokens held | neuron |
| will | balance locked × duration | neuron |
| attention | will allocated to targets | neuron × particle |
| focus | collective attention | particle |
by default, will auto-distributes across every cyberlink a neuron creates: each link receives a share, producing attention at its target particle. a neuron can fine-tune the distribution — directing more will to specific particles or axons via per-link conviction (a box locked into one edge) — while keeping the broad allocation as a baseline. this is the broad-will / per-link-conviction split that attention aggregates into effective adjacency.
why locking, not spending
will makes every cyberlink a costly signal. creating a link commits will, so a neuron must choose what matters; the scarcity ensures the cybergraph accumulates weighted commitments rather than cheap assertions. because will is locked balance rather than burned tokens, the commitment is recoverable but time-bound — conviction is expressed by how long a neuron is willing to tie up capital, not by destroying it.
will is the input quantity tru reads: a neuron's attention on an edge is its will-derived share plus per-link conviction, weighted by karma and ICBS price into the effective adjacency the tri-kernel runs on.
see attention for how will becomes focus · conviction for the per-link counterpart · box for the concrete container · focus for the collective distribution · balance for the underlying tokens.
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