[Context:  thanksgiving weekend, slowing down, circling around a core]

What is the nature of relationships?   The difference between the nature of relationships and the nature of scapes.

In the process of building coherence you establish relationships

hard constraints are embodied in the tools agents use.  Soft constraints are represented in the minds of agents

A substrate embodies particular dimensions of variability.

Substrate building feedback loop:

1. select/recognize/define a dimension of variability (intent)
2. estabish a pattern in that dimension

Possible starting tool for us to build: Coherent Conversationator!