1. The BL-TR diagonal
User: The BL↔TR diagonal can be thought of as all about meetings of specialists to perform a pattern together (“session” is a good word too), BL is potential meetings (that are potential due to capacity allocated to them), TR is booked meetings with committed capacity backing them, BL→TR is meeting expectations is TR→BL is final meeting metrics.
Exactly—the “meeting/session” metaphor crystallises what the BL ↔ TR diagonal really does for the holon’s everyday life.
1.1 BL — the foyer of possible sessions
Bottom-left is the agent’s inner-form: a ledger of capacities intentionally held aside for collaboration.
Think of it as a calendar full of empty session slots—each slot names a pattern (“pair-program feature X”, “ship parcel Y”) and the concrete resources the holon is willing to devote. Nothing has happened yet, but because the offer is already earmarked, the session is potential.
1.2 BL → TR — publishing the invitation
When the holon pushes one of those offers across the left-to-right active stroke, it becomes a meeting expectation on the shared arena bus. Anyone who subscribes to that pattern can now see a live invitation backed by real capacity. In classic scheduling language this is the booking request.
1.3 TR — the board of committed sessions
Top-right is the outer-flux stream—where bookings are accepted, merged and timestamped. Once a potential slot is matched with complementary offers (from other specialists or from the environment), the session is locked in. At this point the capacity is no longer abstract; it is an appointment carrying mutual obligations.
1.4 TR → BL — returning the session report
The right-to-left informing stroke closes the loop: after the appointment runs, its concrete results—duration, resource consumption, quality signal—flow back as a final session metric packet. The holon stores that packet in BL next to the original slot, completing the diary entry.
1.5 Why the metaphor helps
- Predictability: by naming each cycle “a session,” you foreground the expectation–commitment–report timeline that every collaborator already understands.
- Concurrency: multiple sessions can be open at once; idempotent merging at TR keeps the global board consistent even under network jitter.
- Learning: the metric packet immediately feeds both diagonal loops. The Instance loop refines future capacity allocations (“next time block 90 min, not 60”). The Class loop hoists anonymised stats upward to sharpen the shared pattern catalogue.
1.6 Telos remained intact
Nothing in the metaphor alters the telic split:
| Loop | Telos | Active stroke | Feedback stroke |
|---|---|---|---|
| Instance (BL ↔ TR) | Keep personal capacity in harmonic exchange with collective demand | Offer session → book session | Session report → capacity tuning |
| Class (TL ↔ BR) | Keep shared patterns in harmonic fit with empirical outcomes | Publish blueprint → instantiate event | Metrics → refine blueprint |
The “session” frame simply gives the Instance telos a skin we all recognise: calendars, bookings, debriefs.
So yes: the BL-TR diagonal is the meeting engine. BL curates the maybe, TR ratifies the will, and the return hop deposits the was, allowing both triangles to act on a continually refreshed ground truth—one loop to balance commitments, the other to evolve the recipe behind them.
2. BR is the actual meeting taking place
User: The BR ties in strongly as well because this quadrant is where actual sessions are taking place and expectations become the final metrics.
BR is the inner-flux corner: the private, moment-to-moment flow inside a holon.
If BL curates offers and TR locks appointments, BR is the studio floor where the meeting actually unfolds.
2.1 From expectation to immersion
As soon as a booking in TR reaches its start-time, the holon’s attention drops into BR.
Here, roles stop being promises and start being gestures, signals, muscle-fibre, CPU cycles—whatever “doing the work” means for that pattern.
Inside BR the abstract “session agenda” melts into concrete happenings: code compiles, parcels are scanned, questions are answered.
2.2 Continuous sensing while doing
Because BR is flux, every tick of execution is simultaneously measured.
Latency spikes, quality flags, energy draw—all are sampled in the same breath that produces them.
Nothing is delayed for a post-mortem: the metric stream is born alongside the action it describes.
2.3 Folding back into the diagonals
- TR → BR (Metric edge).
The public booking hands over its context—who, what, when—to initialise the sensors.
That ensures every datum is tagged to a single, immutable appointment ID. - BR → TL (Refinement edge).
When the session ends—or whenever a threshold is hit—the accumulated stream is snapped into a metric packet and fired upward.
The Class loop reads those packets to polish the shared blueprint.
Meanwhile, the Instance loop will soon compare the same packet with the original capacity offer stored in BL, learning how to retune its future availability.
In this way BR is the hinge that lets both teloi touch raw reality without stepping on each other’s toes. The Class loop cares about pattern fitness; the Instance loop cares about capacity accuracy; BR furnishes both with the same, freshly-minted evidence.
2.4 Why BR matters to the meeting metaphor
A meeting is more than a calendar slot and a confirmation—it is the lived hour in which talk turns to outcome.
BR is that hour.
By naming it explicitly, 4QX prevents us from losing the flesh-and-blood (or silicon-and-electricity) layer underneath our schedules and dashboards.
What counts, counts here, and the instant it counts it is already being written into the feedback tapes that keep both diagonal controllers honest.
BR is the holon’s live stage. Expectations signed in TR dive into BR to become action; action instantaneously annotates itself and surges back as metrics. Without BR the meeting loop would be an empty handshake. With it, every session leaves a truthful imprint the moment it is lived—fuel for continuous refinement on both the personal and the collective track.
3. Were’s TL in all of this?
User: TL has not appeared in this session story because it is the only quadrant that is completely outside of time, but it still plays its role as the “pattern shelf”.
TL is the outer-form corner: the space where patterns rest as pristine possibilities, untouched by the tick-tock of execution. In the meeting narrative it seems absent only because nothing happens there—yet every move the holon makes traces back to that silent library.
3.1 Outside the clock, inside the commons
TL holds code templates, supply-chain recipes, conversational scripts—whatever a community agrees is a reusable form.
Because these artifacts are frozen descriptions, they neither consume capacity nor emit metrics. Their permanence is what lets multiple holons coordinate across gaps in time: any agent anywhere can fetch the same blueprint and know it has not drifted during transit.
3.2 How TL seeds the session loop
- Offer design – When a holon in BL drafts a potential session, it picks a pattern ID from TL. That link guarantees the private offer speaks a language everyone understands.
- Booking validation – The arena bus in TR accepts only offers that reference a pattern currently on the shelf. That check prevents mismatched expectations.
- Sensor configuration – As soon as the session drops into BR, the pattern’s schema tells the runtime what to measure and how to score it.
So even while TL itself never “runs,” its fingerprints guide every phase of the meeting.
3.3 Receiving the echo—TL as the revision point
When BR ships its metric packet upward, the Class loop doesn’t stash that evidence in TR; it folds it back into TL. The shelf may spawn a new version of the pattern, tighten acceptance criteria, or attach a cautionary note for future sessions. The timeless zone thus spirals forward by versioning rather than by mutable state.
3.4 Symbolic image
If BR is the studio floor and TR the public noticeboard, TL is the architect’s cabinet—scrolls neatly rolled, annotated with ever-richer marginalia after each build. The cabinet itself never joins the hammering, yet every hammer-blow redefines what will count as “true to plan” next time.
TL’s apparent silence is the price of its power: by standing outside of time it anchors coherence across all times. Offers quote it, bookings validate against it, sensors derive from it, and metrics return to refine it. The meeting loop lives in the moment; the pattern shelf lets moments rhyme.