I thought it yes but maybe not necessarily. There could be infinite nodes but the rule is such that at a slightly larger scale it can only result in near instantanious graduated shifts between states. Like a phase transition in material. Where below the scale that these phase transitions appear insufficient substrate complexity exists to support any other features, so youd just be better off setting your minimum abstraction level at the "discrete" one. Or maybe it is just discrete idk.

As for weird behaviour like far reaching spookiness. Could be multiple overlapping substrates at different scales.

Or, the rule directly includes a mechanism for remote information transmission.