Detector

A detector is a lightweight unit aimed at discovering conditions to enable or disable more heavyweight units.

Detectors could work in several different ways:

• It could generate enabling tokens, similar to a Petri Net
• It could supply a real value, similar to a node in a neural network
• It could combine the Petri Net and Neural metaphors by providing label-value pairs, or weighted colored tokens

Detectors should generally be enabled to run with little preconditions at the start, and increasingly become harder to run as other tokens make progress. Their collective goal is to give a weighted assessment of the situation.