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purpose is to **spend the day's evidence**: pay the tags, converge the structure, discharge the debt. purpose is to **spend the day's evidence**: pay the tags, converge the structure, discharge the debt.
**The same three phases, turned inward.** ACTION at night is the defining deed of the night: change **The same three phases, turned inward.** ACTION at night is the defining deed of the night: change
the structure — build where a tag stands, release where participation was low. RECOVERY at night is the structure — build where night participation was high, release where it was low. RECOVERY at night is
the fast alter-ego of that: import the material and free the material that building and shedding the fast alter-ego of that: import the material and free the material that building and shedding
require (structural change costs matter, and matter must be moved). PREPARATION at night is the require (structural change costs matter, and matter must be moved). PREPARATION at night is the
**replay** — the component re-evokes the day's patterns as a probe and measures how well it **replay** — the component re-evokes the day's patterns as a probe and measures how well it
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deplete, and each component's **participation is traced**. Restructuring (the night's ACTION⇄RECOVERY) deplete, and each component's **participation is traced**. Restructuring (the night's ACTION⇄RECOVERY)
then **strengthens the participants**: the components whose participation trace is high, and which have then **strengthens the participants**: the components whose participation trace is high, and which have
material, build up; those that did not take part drift down — while RECOVERY re-supplies energy and material, build up; those that did not take part drift down — while RECOVERY re-supplies energy and
material for the next round. Cycling many times, because resolving who is potentiated and who is material for the next round. Note what decides the outcome, and what does not: the **tag buys chances,
not prizes**. A high day-tag means a larger energy store, so a component gets to play the participation
lottery more often — but it wins a build only by *actually participating* in a recruited circuit. A
heavily-tagged component that plays often and never takes part in a winning circuit is not built; a
lightly-tagged one that does participate is. Participation is the arbiter of build-versus-release; the
tag only funds the attempt (and pays for the build, depleting as it does). Cycling many times, because
resolving who is potentiated and who is
depotentiated is a competition that takes many rounds. Around and around: **replay selects by depotentiated is a competition that takes many rounds. Around and around: **replay selects by
participation; restructuring consolidates the participants and re-supplies the energy; replay runs participation; restructuring consolidates the participants and re-supplies the energy; replay runs
again on the strengthened structure.** Each phase produces exactly the fuel the other consumes. again on the strengthened structure.** Each phase produces exactly the fuel the other consumes.