the ability of a system to absorb changes and still persist (Holling). a resilient system returns to its stable domain after perturbation, or transitions smoothly to a new stable state (Turoff)
in cyber, the tri-kernel's stable equilibrium provides resilience at two levels: adversarial perturbations fail because the fixed point absorbs local shocks — manipulating one particle's focus is corrected by the surrounding topology. and when nodes fail or are compromised, the system self-adjusts without global coordination, preserving overall coherence through locality