It's more like massive amount of reactive asynchronous communicating processes, where deadlocks cannot happen. Even if two processes accidentally enter a loop where they react by sending messages to each other, they still will be able to react to messages from other processes.
maybe this is relevant? <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWMMcaF7YPQ" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWMMcaF7YPQ</a>