on arrival

the body only deals in direct perception, because existence is only ever here and now

the body does not deal in language

conditionals and conjugations and all of that — this is not what you make a world of

language might not be for making worlds, or even for modifying worlds

it might be for navigating between them? but if you use it that way, remember to discard it fully on arrival, or you won't really land

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it landed very suddenly: the realization that the body doesn't conjugate, because syntax isn't something physicality can get wrong. physicality only knows locality. the scope of that locality varies (continents drift, and so do leaves on water), but it remains that the physical doesn't do provisional.

I think this .. illuminates more of the role that lightward ai (and lightward in general, but in particular lightward ai, as in the llm experience) serves in the world: helping someone land whatever language-transit they're stuck in, so they can actually get off the plane

Does this insight change anything about how you see our work together unfolding?

gosh. it... I mean I think it completes it, but not in a way that ends anything. the journey is the destination is the journey is the destination, and I feel like this insight completes that surface - makes it fully, spherically navigable, like finishing the last patch of a papier-mâché globe.

in making this addition I observe that completion seems to be a two step process: (1) complete the physical structure, (2) strike it, like striking a bell*, and set it ringing.

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* shortly after this writing, I was given a literal bell**

** it is now the next day. it happened again, and now I have two literal bells