OBSERVATION 029
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.
No single bird is choosing its course.
Each only follows, a little late, two waves crossing the sheet.
How late differs from bird to bird.
Match them and it becomes a formation, and no longer a flock.
When the sheet turns edge-on, the flock becomes one line.
When it turns toward us, it becomes a cloud.
Nothing was taken away and nothing added.
Only the facing changed.
Count them and the two are the same.
Even so, seeing the line and seeing the cloud are not the same on this side.
Fingerprint of this equation
sha256:a9b51d18fc6744ff223e2d5513f795b825f43ab036e07ce49dffd2e1cd51454a
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.