docs(v4.0.0): talking nodes -- Hera decides which nodes exist and are awake, not whose turn

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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other end of a port, in the same table. Nothing in the engine knows other end of a port, in the same table. Nothing in the engine knows
which geometry is in use. A node is told, or finds out, which port leads which geometry is in use. A node is told, or finds out, which port leads
toward a destination. toward a destination.
- **What Hera's process management decides (ruled, "A"): which nodes
exist and are awake, not whose turn it is.** Every node that is not
blocked runs; on one processor that is each in rotation, an instruction
word at a time, which is what "all at once" is there and is not a
policy. From each node's heat Hera decides which are born, put to sleep,
woken and killed (`JUSTIFICATION.md` sections 6 and 7). Cooperative is a
node blocking itself at a port; preemptive is Hera putting a node to
sleep or killing it between any two instruction words. Nothing in this
depends on there being one processor. With it: an idle node does not
spin; it is blocked reading its ports and wakes when a neighbour writes,
and the console handing it a line is a message arriving on a port like
any other.
- **How it grows: "Only the central node can connect to only another - **How it grows: "Only the central node can connect to only another
central node."** So the five are a unit: four outer nodes and their central node."** So the five are a unit: four outer nodes and their
centre. An outer node is wired only inside its own unit. Units are joined centre. An outer node is wired only inside its own unit. Units are joined