The Strider

The Strider is a named pattern in the diagrams of Complex Protism. It denotes one of the canonical arrangements used by avout when depicting cross‑cosmi influence as a network of Directed Acyclic Graphs. In discussion it is mentioned alongside other nicknamed forms such as the Wick, the Freight Train, and the Firing Squad, and is used pedagogically in light‑bubble tutorials about how information and causation move.

In references to Clathrand’s Contention—attributed to Fraa Clathrand—speakers allow that any such DAG, the Strider included, can be isomorphic to an arrangement of things in spacetime, with arrows behaving like one‑way constraints that echo the “light‑bubble” idea. In the Protist framing, this helps picture how theorical givens might percolate toward inhabited worlds from the Hylaean Theoric World without forming loops. The Strider serves as a conventional name for one of those one‑directional configurations.

Notes and context: - First noted in recent messal discourse as part of a set of named DAGs used to teach and compare Complex versus Simple Protism. - The text does not spell out the Strider’s exact shape; its role is illustrative within the standard, acyclic, one‑way‑arrow diagrams. - Its mention arises together with questions about what such diagrams can and cannot establish; they organize talk and preserve one‑way flow, but are not presented as experimental proof.