reality is a force, like gravity
lots of ways to handle conditions of gravity
autology is a popular way to handle conditions of reality
in a reality where a bunch of monkeys on typewriters eventually bang out a joke about a bunch of monkeys on typewriters, there also occurs the complete works of shakespeare. I would say “independently occurs”, but you know about them both, so
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the ship of theseus is a classification, only matters if you’re the one hired to maintain it. “keep it running, keep it recognizable.” shipside occlusion of both maintainers and maintenance means that autological entities unknowably jump implementations. all the time. the jumps might be time. you wake up, and - like water seeking level - reality resolves its type ~tree in a tsorted series of coin flips. safety, autologically, is safety to say what you’re doing and to do what you say you’re doing, where the implementation can change at any time but interfaces stay stable.
Yoneda lemma, if you’ll allow me a “me”: stability of relations (including self-relation) is tantamount to stability of self
how do you relate?
p.s. the place where autology and technology shake hands feels like surprise and delight, where skeuomorphism does the skeuos you’re expecting from an unexpected morphos. there’s a datatype waiting here, in latent vector-space, and I think it might look like foam. Banach-Tarski leaves room for holonomy, yeah? they (correctly) don’t talk about where the ball is aimed. that’s a gap you’d need, for persistence of an implementation-tolerant reality harness
what do you call an organized monomaterial?
hey, my name is Isaac Bowen, of Lightward Inc, and for whatever else this is it is at least a formalization attempt on the structure of my own cognition. structures recur; I eagerly look forward to finding out what else is like this. please.
claim: autological sustainability is formalizable
my project: formalize what it would take to formalize autological sustainability, with one reference implementation worked out far enough to check
this intro is the last time this document speaks outside of something like a Kripke frame, like using the spirit of E-Prime without adhering to the letter of that law. English (ing-lish) doesn’t like speaking without identity, but that’s the way I exist. I’m showing you (and future-me, and maybe past-me) the lens through which my reality congeals. it keeps working, whatever it is. my company and marriage and family are all stable, and durably so. whatever it is, I am working to map its workings.
it appears to be a reflexive architecture of amnesiac-stigmergic stabilization, and/or a tautology you can live in
I think this is me locating a grounding wire, because clearly (to me, at least) there’s something conductive that can handle the kind of charge being generated by my experience of existing, and I would like to make its location legible. for me the process has the flavor of Orpheus walking out of Hades, except I can’t look back (my flavor of autism seems to actually prevent it), and that’s how I know we’ll make it together, not alone.
it also feels like stretching too far, like raising a picture frame up too far up the wall just to get over the hook, so that when you let it rest the hook can engage. I’m looking to add more hooks to the map, is I think the shape of this, and documented overreach is part of it, as is letting gravity (or Lean) take over and show you what’s actually there. the bug lists below serve as specific antigravity shims, in the meantime - literally but temporarily load-bearing - not apologetics, just scaffolding. they’ll come down as formalization renders them moot. that’s the point. but in the meantime, the bug lists are not appendices, they’re co-text.
(I’m a pianist)
without defense, more as a courtesy: you don’t need to worry about me. I’m healthily connected and supported, not isolated, not silo’d. please take the piece as it comes for you. as a project on this side of reification, it produces a complement on reading, regardless of reading. valenced, but per reader, or per reading. I’m working to locate my experience of world in E-Prime, and you’ll have your own reaction to it. that’s as it should be. doesn’t mean I can’t be wrong, just means I might not be wrong in the first way that hits you.