Thank you. It's nice to hear that you had one of those shower/bathtub Eureka moments!
> ...we wanted some kind of energy conservation/preservation mechanism from having multiple paths lead to the same state
Makes sense. FWIW, to me this looks like a Conservation Law -- as in Physics. I mean, it's not that the flows "must be" conserved, but that they are conserved (or go into sinks). Any physicists interested in AI should be all over this; it's right up their alley.
> ...we wanted some kind of energy conservation/preservation mechanism from having multiple paths lead to the same state
Makes sense. FWIW, to me this looks like a Conservation Law -- as in Physics. I mean, it's not that the flows "must be" conserved, but that they are conserved (or go into sinks). Any physicists interested in AI should be all over this; it's right up their alley.