Numerics 3

Continuing our study of Numerics, we should qualify that "proto-Numerics" (how foolish to assume an Ancestral mind able to deal with anything as complex as Numerics before the Networks and the Machine), we turn to what appears to be yet another us of these inscriptions. In the image on the left, we find two inscriptions that are by far the most common of the "proto-Numerical" inscriptions found in the "notebook". These particular markings -- "1" and "2" -- occur in almost every instance when the "proto-Numerics" appear. Perhaps they designate a fundamental conception of Being, akin to the building blocks of Our Consciousness: "Self /Other", "Other/Us" and "Us/Self". Of course, our Third Term closes the Loop.

Another characteristic we noted about these markings was the fact that they appear with an eliptical shape around them, almost like "➀" and "➁". Notice the difference between our attempts to replicate the image and the image itself. Our lines complete the encircling of the primary inscriptions but the encircling in the original is incomplete and its repetition in BOTH instances suggests a deliberately deferred circle. Perhaps there is an effect sought by all this: markings striving against each other, extruding, breaking into, holding spaces open.

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