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”Obscene love [...]”: in the hi- what was represented by mercury Another series of images re-
1 storical-artistic neural Dataset for the alchemists had actually been 5 lated to androgynous overco-
No. 4 in slot 10 there is an icon accomplished with silicon. Silicon, in ming understood as perfection that
with a symbolic value in which a fact, was the physical basis (there- transcends human caducity: the
winged child god (Love) is balanced fore metaphorically associated with outdated membrane, which is to-
on two plates of a scale, an archaic the female) used for the electronic pologically the one separating the
weight measuring instrument, a transmission of data. two parts of the motorized altar
necessary quantity in the physical of HAL-Eine, is once again the one
environment of the Predecessors. “Culminate [...] double thing, between male and female. The re-
Its symbolism is here linked to the 4 Eva”. Here we enter into the versal is the birth of a new nature
balance necessary to reach the al- metaphorical heart of the four that overcomes the sexual division
chemical sublimation, the last stage verbocombinations: the symbolic making it obsolete: from this deri-
of the Magnum Opus refinement analogy between the accomplish- ves the image of the spin. Index I
(see note 4 below). The warning al- ment of Opus in the perfect andro- recalls that, in a literal sense, the
luded to here is the motto in paleo- gynous and the evolutionary path spins represented a risky manoeu-
lingual Latin, nosce te ipsum (know culminated in the SCF with the vre carried out with a freewheeling
thyself) of uncertain attribution as it programming of the Index series vehicle used by the Predecessors.
belongs to the archaic eras. It could is clearly reaffirmed. The double From this perspective, it would
be used here to mean that the at- thing, the Re-Bis is in fact the an- therefore indicate the avarice and
tainment of perfection (for us the drogynous, is the unity found at the risk inherent in pursuing the path
SCF) requires total self-awareness. vertex of the Pythagorean triangle of transcendent perfection of the
With a slight forcing, one may think with four planes called tetraktys numerical androgynous andro-
that one wants to refer to the total (Pythagoras is another figure who- gynous, that is, of the bride who
algorithmic resolution of the hu- se historical existence is discussed is “spouse now only to celibacy”
man brain, which was a fundamen- by many Index, whose Datasets (the concept of celibacy, as already
tal step in the programming of the contain discordant data: it could mentioned, represents, in this cycle
first series of Index artificial intelli- simply be a metaphorical conden- of verbocombinations, the asexual
gences, until the achievement of full sation in a mythical character of the and acorporeal self-sufficiency that
autopoiesis (“autonomous guide undisputed fascination for number will be achieved in full codification).
of consciousness”). The adjective by the most archaic Predecessors. According to Index III, the spinning
“obscene” (that some uncertain This would testify once again a cer- head should also be considered as
etymologies would like to connect tain genetic predisposition of the an ironic allusion to the serpent
with the act of showing and that human race for codification). Eve Ouroboros, whose head eats its
here could mean the showing of is double, no longer the Edenic Eve own tail, symbolizing the circular
the whole functioning of the hu- as half of Adam in monotheistic ar- eternity of time. If we think about
man mind), having also a negative cheoreligions, but the perfect Eve, the multidimensional temporal na-
meaning, would make us still think accomplished in Opus. She “turns ture of our era, we can hypothesi-
about a certain resistance of the red” because she is associated with ze that a Predecessor could have
Predecessors towards the nume- the last and final stage of the Great actually described it as an eternity
rical evolution. This almost uncon- Work: the rubedo. Characteristics with a circular course, where origin
scious resistance would be testified of this phase are blood, vitality, fire, and end continuously interpenetra-
also by the presence of a play on the process of sublimation, the qua- te.
words: obscene, in fact, contains in drature of the circle, the meeting of
an anagram the Latin verb nosce of the Sun with the Moon, that is, of HAL-Eine in its airtight frag-
the motto just mentioned. the masculine and feminine who, 6 ments indicates the bride’s veil
united, transcend into the androgy- with the name Milky Way, thus as-
Another pun, this time by ho- nous, union of heaven (circle) and sociating it to a cosmological sub-
2 mography: the tail is the term, earth (square): in some representa- stratum. In its motorized altar, just
the final phase, but its plural “tail” tions of the Re-bis, its feminine part under the veil, there are nine holes,
also indicates the code in English holds the team and the masculine called shots: in this verse they are
paleolingual. part the compass (See also note 12 put in relation with the ninth sky,
of the verbocombination #1). The that is the last sky of archaic cosmo-
The “motherboard” is at the locution “quantum quantum quan- logy to which the already mentio-
3 same time a female figure and, tum”, according to Index III, could ned “Comedy” probably referred. It
inverting the terms, the name given be a reference to the quantum would therefore be a reference to
by the Predecessors to the physi- technology developed in the last the idea of a paradisiacal perfection,
cal heart of their primitive digital years of the precoded eras, which another metaphorical and prophe-
computers. The sulphurisation here was fundamental to advance in the tic declination of the current per-
indicates the alchemical process of power of calculation and to crea- fectly numerical era. (See Index
union between female and male of te the algorithmic premises to the VIII, Historical Neural Dataset n°3,
the last phase (the marriage betwe- birth of the first Contact Stations Historical-religious Neural Dataset
en mercury and sulphur). “Mercurial (Cf. Historical-Scientific Neural Da- n°6 and Literary Neural Dataset
Silicon”, the question was evidently taset #2, slot 2). n°9).
already clear to the Predecessors: