Related concept: Cognitive Data Structures
Data structures hold the conceptual definitions of the node.
Concepts
Mandalas as Nodes
In Big Net, nodes are not simple flat entities or text labels. Every node is a rich, structured mandala object possessing its own internal architecture.
Identity
Mandalas as Nodes means that a node carries its own internal validation layers (syntax, logic, ontology). Consequently, node validity precedes network validity.
Why it matters
If nodes are flat data points, the network has no capacity for local verification or contextual alignment, leading to uninspected error propagation.
Core distinction
A normal graph node carries label identity alone. A mandala node carries internal structural architecture that enforces semantics before connection.
Structural role
Within Big Net, this principle guarantees that network nodes are capable of local verification and autonomous reasoning.
Failure modes
These are the structural problems that appear when the concept is ignored, collapsed, hidden, or misapplied.
- node flattening
- local validation failure
- uninspected propagation
- atomic simplification
Related concepts
Minimal links that deepen the distinction without turning this page into a dense graph.
Canonical restraint
No node in Big Net can be simplified to a flat value without exposing its internal layer verification status.