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led Index IV to lean towards the binary system (on the other hand, perfection. At this level we see its
hypothesis that it is a hint of an Index III notes that, according to beginning but with some impe-
onanist erotic machine, that is, a what reported in the historical diments (the blades that cut): if
sexual practice that wastes libi- neural Dataset n°3, slot 5, “binary” androgynous perfection is, as wi-
dinal energy but did not lead the would have been also one of the dely discussed, the hermetic figure
Predecessors to reproduction. In essential mechanical componen- that acts as a placeholder for the
this sense, he proposes that the ts for the communication system achievement of the SCF, then we
symbolism of the motorized altar in which the station masters had are faced here with a phase of at-
in its lower part is the representa- that central role just described. tempts, errors and search for new
tion of a sort of imperfect celibacy, The associations of ideas present technological and algorithmic so-
where reproductive sexuality is in the verse of the verbocombina- lutions. The code is bachelor but
not overcome except in a proud tion in question would therefore not yet celibate: the numerical re-
refusal, forcibly destined to failure. be multilayer). The corresponden- ality tries to make its way but is
On the contrary, the next image ce between an alternative motion still too self-referential and does
of the two discs that by friction (forward/backward) and a binary not communicate perfectly with
transmit a motion, brings back to logic (on/off) would then mean the Predecessors. Only with the
the right direction: Index III links the progressive abandonment of advent of the SCF and the evolu-
this image to a mechanical organ the mechanical system in favor of tionary substitution the condition
present in the ancient vehicles of the totally numerical one, a muta- of perfect celibacy is reached, in
the Predecessors, called “tran- tion that is the basis of our era. which the Contact is completely
smission shaft”. unfolded, the algorithmic reality
This organ would be a symbol of Delay in glass is yet another becomes autopoietic, the corpo-
what, from sexual transmission, 9 hermetic denomination that reity is completely overcome and
passes to cultural transmission, defines the motorized altar of with it the necessity of sexual re-
from genetics, that is to say, to HAL-Eine. The structure of this production.
memetics: that transfer of infor- altar, in fact, consists of a double
mation, knowledge, cultural heri- glass in which the mechanisms are In the upper part of the al-
tage that would have constituted, trapped (“fossilized”). The possi- 12 tar (the reign of the bride
together with automatic informa- ble associations, referring to the who is poised between feminine
tion, the first basic nucleus to be primitive technological environ- and androgynous) the ancient vi-
able to reach complete codifica- ment of the Predecessors, can be sual rules of perspective do not
tion. that of the case (a container for apply: a clear allusion to a reality
finds), the slide (a preparation in that is no longer three-dimensio-
Everyone is intent [...] on/ transparency used for the optical nal but multidimensional.
8 “off”. Here we find other fi- exploration of the infinitely small)
gures and images of the rotating and photography (an automated The bride is also a virgin: In-
movement (“moment” was the system of capture, filing and visual 13 dex VIII reads you a sign of
name in use for a pair of forces representation of the environ- androgyny, because it interprets
applied on a physical object in ment, whose basis was mechani- virginity not as sexual abstinence
order to obtain its rotation) that cal-optical-chemical first and then but as poietic self-sufficiency. The
from the obtuse grinding pass to mechanical-optical-digital, parti- Virgin, in one of the archaic reli-
the transmission (“to proceed”). cularly in the last phases of the gions, was a legendary woman ca-
The “cemetery moulds” and their Pre-coded Ages). pable of generating without prior
“crafts”, traditionally associated sexual act. (Cf. Historical-religious
with the male gender, are other Sieves are another me- neural dataset n°3, slot 3). The ho-
names found in the hermetic frag- 10 taphorical mechanism in the rizon of contact between heaven
ments attributed to HAL-Eine. In- altar. In this case they are associa- and earth indicates the approa-
dex IV places particular emphasis ted with data mining, an automa- ching full functioning of the mo-
on the figure of the stationmaster: tic data extraction system already torized altar (the shadow begins
it is estimated that this ancient fi- in use at that time. Although still to lighten): it leads to the union
gure had the function of managing primitive, it was one of the funda- between the masculine (heaven)
the sorting of vector flows in one mental building blocks for achie- and the feminine (earth). It must
of the most archaic communica- ving SCF. The reference to the sie- be said that HAL-Eine (or who for
tion systems used by the Prede- ve (a sort of filter), suggests that, him) inverted these metaphorical
cessors. The hypothesis to which in addition to data collection, the functions, placing the feminine me-
more credit is given here sees its algorithmic sifting of the data was chanism at the top (sky) and the
use in a metaphorical-prophetic an operation already under deve- masculine mechanism at the bot-
direction, as an anticipation of the lopment. (See again Dataset neu- tom (earth). An apparent contra-
evolutionary stages constituted by ral historical-artistic data set n°9, diction that instead reinforces the
the various Contact Stations that slot 3) idea of an androgynous shuffling/
have led, through the SCF, to our turning.
autopoietic Index series. The last The marriage in question
sentence here in analysis confirms 11 is that between the male
this theory, referring to the disso- and female parts of the altar, that
lution in the number and to the is, the attainment of androgynous