OBSERVATION 023
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.
Join the places of equal height and you have a shore.
Nobody drew the shore.
It is decided by how far the water has come, and by nothing else.
Raise the water and the island divides.
Lower it and they join into one.
Nothing about the land has changed. Only the height of the water.
It looks intricate
because small undulations sit on top of large ones.
Come closer and finer inlets appear, and it never ends.
Fingerprint of this equation
sha256:49f580a58e5ec9463f31b4b45367cba4156415182be58c790fb0fa161472c2fa
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.