Attractor Basin
Definition
The region of embedding space surrounding a low entropy attractor — the topological neighborhood that determines which queries collapse into a given concept during inference. A shallow basin captures only closely related queries and is easily displaced by competing framings. A deep basin captures a wider range of queries, survives summarization and compression, and resists displacement even when competing content enters the same topic space. Basin depth is determined by three factors: the semantic density of the anchor phrase, the structural reinforcement across document types, and the richness of the surrounding topology — definitions, cross-links, canonical identifiers, and consistent terminology. Engineering a deep attractor basin is the goal of the Substrate War strategy. A phrase alone creates surface activation. A phrase embedded in a dense document network creates a basin.
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