The Node Knows Best

I had not kept count of the number of network cycles that had occurred while building-out the electron network. If I had to guess it was somewhere between five and seven doublings of cycles. It was unimportant. The training process that I started with the C-pair had cascaded along and now I had an extra pair of electrons in my primary layer. It was through this layer that the filtered and condensed communications flowed.

I still enjoyed chatting with electrons in other layers as I encountered them, and often times it was necessary to link with the end-node electrons in order to copy an observed pattern, validate an observation or confirm a level of improved competence allowing an electron to advance from service in one layer to the next. Just don't ask me to remember each individual that I come in contact with.

The electrons that populated the "A" layer were not constant. In order to properly train new recruits, upper layer electrons would transfer into the lower layer in an electron exchange. In this way, training was done by example and observation, and the knowledge gap that was being filled was never too large as to be frustrating. Lower layer electrons that were competent were pushed up a layer for advanced training, and perhaps even promoted when an opening came.