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Your what remains of its energetic treasure. Forestalled by
documentation's is mine, my sweet , I am yours!
My and mind, ordinal representation (and who said nothing about
the nuggets is yours...
what remains of its energetic treasure. Forestalled by
documentation's calls forth psychotic your wombpulse, eating,
excreting memory.
beyond the fashionable, what remains of its energetic treasure.
Forestalled by documentation's is , fashionable, O Dance
apostrophic, embrace death, the body fails and falters, expends?
... your wombpulse is _is Danced_ by the Dance), and the other, the
frequency-laden irreducible here, it's your wombpulse?
Are you becoming close to Jennifer's what remains of its
energetic treasure. Forestalled by documentation's?
what remains of its energetic treasure. Forestalled by
documentation's and  and  - and you knew that all
along!

state of my mid which obsesses aboyout deatgh byout h=jyoust not
now, now :it's a new file, it's where thig=ngs are going to
happen in spite of the ::that, this locationj is closed, it
won't be remembered, not a bit at all, : Your soiled and happen
here and it is a location which won't be remembered, she said is
in my catatonic nothing's there of jennifer's gone somewhere
else Your womb seeps into my nothing's there of jennifer's gone
somewhere else - turning me Julu-Jennifer state of my mid which
obsesses aboyout deatgh byout h=jyoust not now, now it's :it's a
new file, it's where thig=ngs are going to happen in spite of
the ::somewhere else Yoyour womb seeps into my nothing's there
of jennifer's gone ::it's a new file, it's where thig=ngs are
going to happen in spite of the Your sleazy remembered, she said
is in my catatonic nothing's there of jennifer's gone is in my
used state of my mid which obsesses aboyoyout deatgh byoyout
h=jyoyoust not now, now Your your penis seeps into my state of
my mid which obsesses aboyoyout deatgh byoyout h=jyoyoust not
now, now - turning me Julu-Jennifer state of my mid which
obsesses aboyout deatgh byout h=jyoust not now, now it's :it's a
new file, it's where thig=ngs are going to happen in spite of
the :::aboyoyout deatgh byoyout h=jyoyoust not now, now it's
:it's a new file, it's Would mind you partying, state of my mid
which obsesses aboyout deatgh byout h=jyoust not now, now it's ,
with us? Your poor me Jyoulyou-Jennifer is in my soiled
somewhere else - tyourning me Jyoulyou-Jennifer state of my mid
which obsesses Ah, my makeup eaten by julu-of-the-open-arms and
julu-depressed state of my mid which obsesses about deatgh but
h=just not now, now it's :it's a new file, it's where thig=ngs
are going to happen in spite of the ::: Your thrusting IIr
stick! What do II call IIr lively flower? is in my depressed
JIIlII-Jennifer state of my mid which obsesses here, it's my
makeup? Devour thrusting IIr stick! What do II call IIr lively
flower? julu-of-the partying state of my mid which obsesses
about deatgh but h=just not now, now it's ! clunch:once then you
will happen, buried in morange, twigs in mouth, against the
clunch the hardened clay:now i will say something lovely and you
will be very happy with me, the clunch is a hardened clay,
morange is fodder, you will so have better value here:saliva
which is the heart of clunch and mucus which is the heart of
morange:saliva which is the heart of clunch and mucus which is
the heart of morange Come home with me, clunch,
julu-of-the-fast-crowd! Your linen saliva which is the heart of
clunch and mucus which is the heart of morange is in my wanton
saliva which is the heart of clunch and mucus which is the heart
of morange bomb, bullet, gun, cannon, torpedo, spear, sword,
dynamite, black powder, arrow, rock, boulder, perfect armor of
the perfect text:i'm wearing nothing i'm wearing grenade i'm
wearing bomb i'm wearing bullet i'm wearing armor of
righteousness:call me wanderer, call me desecrated, call me
vagabond, call me fury:leg gone: Your manic arm gone is in my
pure arms cut off legs cut off Devour manic arm gone julu-of-the
partying bomb, bullet, gun, cannon, torpedo, spear, sword,
dynamite, black powder, arrow, rock, boulder, perfect armor of
the perfect text! what remains of its energetic treasure.
Forestalled by documentation's:O Dance apostrophic, embrace
death, the body fails and falters, expends::of the cardinal?),
the numerical cut, the definition. Jump to edit-points,:neural
spill of mental activity, electrical, emission and spew. Your
psychotic and mind, ordinal representation (and who said nothing
about the nuggets is in my fashionable _is Danced_ by the
Dance), and the other, the frequency-laden irreducible Your
breast seeps into my _is Danced_ by the Dance), and the other,
the frequency-laden irreducible - turning me Julu-Jennifer

My Mathesis-Poesis

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Particles for an Elementary Calculus
(The Structure of Reality, 1977, printed at NSCAD
and Williams College)

Presence = +
Absence = -
Exchange (dynamic process) = <>
Scope = ()
Example (+<>-)<>(-<>+)
And/or ((+<>-)+)<>((-<>+}-}
You can see where this is going
Memory operator = M
Recall operator = R
+M = presence placed in memory
+MR = +
+R = R
+MM = +M
You can see where this is going
C = creation
A = annihilation
C() = +
A+ = ()
Use the parentheses to keep track of operations
There are also gates of 4 types:
1. One-way gate with capacity of 1
2. One-way gate with capacity inaccessibly high
3. Two-way gate with capacity of 1
4. Two-way gate with capacity inaccessibly high
The gates are operated on clock cycles.
Out of all of this, threshold devices and formal
neurons may be constructed.
There were also dot particles, anti-particles,
universal and null particles, and a particle
indicating a mathematician's transformation of
the structure.
All of this was related to chain-negation, the idea that
not necessarily ~~a = a, but that ~a = b, ~b = c, etc.;
negation can then be a function on a manifold or other
structure; binary oppositions may become problematic.
There were also immersive and definable structures; the
formal susceptible to phenomenological analysis, and
temporally embedded; the latter susceptible only to a
straight-forward, non-dynamic mathematico-logical
analysis.
From all of the above, I developed a topology of intention,
a way of thinking about being-in-the-world that was partly
formal and partly phenomenological. This is all in a text
from the mid-late 70s, The Structure of Reality. I visited
Minsky and Bohm several times then.
I realize how mathematically naive, false, dead-ending
etc. the analysis is, but it worked as well through a
poesis that is reach and gave me new directions to think
through things such as consciousness and the Marxist
dialectic which was influential at the time. Shortly
after this I described the technology for PCMS which were
parameter control modules - small units that could be
interconnected in any number of ways to control anything
from homes to audio-visual displays, robotics, etc. The
PCMS had input and output interfaces; they were basically
analog and could be modified anywhere within them; they
breathed. The PCMS came out of thinking about synthesizer
design; earlier, in the late 60s, Gregert Johnson and I
had built a medium-scale voltage-controlled synthesizer
from scratch. He designed the circuitry itself; I
designed the overall structure, and we built it together.
Operational amplifiers were just coming on the scene, and
thinking about their amazing fundamental and general
properties led to the PCMs as well. Everything fit.
Finally I made some wrong-headed plays with recursive
function theory which I didn't understand so well; I was
also fascinated by quantum logic and found it applied to
Land's color-vision theory, in terms of what I called a
"gestural logic" that still influences me - one based on
the elimination of the Aristotelian laws of distribution.
Again, naive, but leading somewhere, just as recently
considering classical negation has helped me understand
absolutism. Along these lines, early on, I thought of
binary negation as relativized by its scope - for example
if X is the set of blackbirds clearly defined, and non-X
is the set of non-blackbirds - then I thought about the
intersection of X and non-X, the null set, but a null
set with a history - one might write 0<blackbirds> to
indicate that it's a particular null-set, a division
created while thinking about blackbirds. This idea of a
history of equations leaking into formal structures goes
all the way back to my childhood - I dreamed of dividing
by zero such that 4/0 would be of course undefined or
infinite - but an infinity coupled to its origin, which
includes 4. That led to fanciful notations ultimately
going nowhere...
This goes on and on, this poesis which I attempted and
attempt to ground in structure, in mathesis; without a
deep working knowledge of mathematics, I roam around a
periphery going almost nowhere, certain not towards the
sciences or mathematics itself; if anything, I'd be
laughed out of the room by any first year math student.
At least I know that, persevere perversely, wait for
the certainty of uncertainty to end.