15.3 Dual Network Structure 281 preferential attachment, because Atoms with more links will tend to get more STI, and thus will tend to get selected by more cognitive processes, which will cause them to grow more links. For this reason, in most circumstances, a CogPrime system in which most link-building cognitive processes rely heavily on ECAN to guide their activities will tend to contain a small- world-network Atomspace. This is not rigorously guaranteed to be the case for any possible combination of environment and goals, but it is commonsensically likely to nearly always be the case. One consequence of the small worlds structure of the Atomspace is that, in exploring other properties of the Atom network, it is particularly important to look at the hub nodes. For instance, if one is studying whether hierarchical and heterarchical subnetworks of the Atomspace exist, and whether they are well-aligned with each other, it is important to look at hierarchical and heterarchical connections between hub nodes in particular (and secondary hubs, etc.). A pattern of hierarchical or dual network connection that only held up among the more sparsely connected nodes in a small-world network would be a strange thing, and perhaps not that cognitively useful. 15.3 Dual Network Structure One of the key theoretical notions in patternist philosophy is that complex cognitive systems evolve internal dual network structures, comprising superposed, harmonized hierarchical and heterarchical networks. Now we explore some of the specific CogPrime structures and dynamics militating in favor of the emergence of dual networks. 15.3.1 Hierarchical Networks The hierarchical nature of human linguistic concepts is well known, and is illustrated in Figure 15.2 for the commonsense knowledge domain (using a graph drawn from WordNet, a huge con- cept hierarchy covering 50K+ English-language concepts), and in Figure 15.4 for a specialized knowledge subdomain, genetics. Due to this fact, a certain