OBSERVATION 016
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.
Two, released from separate places, settle into one ring.
They enter winding in opposite directions, so inside the ring they keep passing each other.
Where they overlap, fringes appear.
Neither of them is the darker one.
Their two scales differ very slightly,
so places that agree and places that do not come alternately.
Being in the same place and being the same are not the same thing.
The fringes are evidence that the difference has not gone yet.
Erase it and the ring is plain, and that there were two of them cannot be told.
Fingerprint of this equation
sha256:7981842eaa66ff84f0bc5e6dfe5bea8a001fbdba4500fe864d41f52c91d91a0d
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.