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**Intuition:** Focus corresponds to distinguishing **data (states)** from **rules/program (actions)**:

* **States** (`@`) = what you're computing (the data being transformed)
* **Actions** (no `@`) = how you compute (the rules/program that transforms)

This is like a subject-verb distinction: states are what the computation is "about", and actions are what "happens to" the states.

Execution duplicates actions and fuses them with state stars until no more interactions are possible.
The result is a new constellation, like the “normal form” of computation.
The result is a new constellation, like the "normal form" of computation.

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