OBSERVATION 001
Press the picture and the points thin out. There are four rungs —
forty thousand, six hundred, forty, one. The equation running underneath does not change.
Only the shape goes.
“Listen” is the same bundle of relations, thrown to the ear instead of the eye.
No sound was added; the same equation is put out through another sense.
A wave crosses the bell, from the centre out to the rim.
The tentacles follow that wave a little late.
It is the lag that makes it look alive.
Move them together and it becomes a machine opening and closing.
There are twenty tentacles, and no two neighbours ever swing at the same moment.
The beat is offset, one by one.
Nothing decides this. It is that way from the start.
Fingerprint of this equation
sha256:e647fc747d7d57c729050fe97bfa51a881952f2089378ec4b8e1f303ad93a77a
Run at any time, by anyone, it appears in the same form.
No randomness, no clock, nothing from the environment.
The button above takes the equation out as it is. To count it again yourself:
pbpaste > f.txt && printf %s "$(cat f.txt)" | shasum -a 256
Take it and run it. No randomness and no clock are used, so the same creature appears on your screen too. The equation belongs to no one.