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Constitution Hypothesis
Any phrase starting in "being" can be rewritten to start in "having", in other words, any natural pattern of "being something" is equivalent to some "having something(s)".
In both code and design, a lack of well-written documentations is why we always feel the need to start from scratch.
Psychology, self analysis, and self conversation, are all meaningless for an artificial agent; all conclusions drawn and the path to reach them from primitive belief are fully known, nothing is forgotten and nothing is confused by the plague of sentiment. The artificial agent is not stubborn, it is strategic.
app := specific-purpose program
“Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson
Up until the advent of computers, each thing had a finite set of purposes, which were often less, rather than more. The general-purpose universal machine was the first step towards infinity; and that is my definition of power, unlimited possibilities.
“I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me.”
— Cary Grant
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Ellipsis
The unexplained is not necessarily unexplainable.
Simplicity is hidden complexity.
Any any dimensional structure may be viewed as a one dimensional curved line.
Borders upon land and see, partition of wholes, separation of concerns, the so called divide & conquer, are all to gently inform the limited human mind.

Limits exist to be challenged and eventually, surpassed.
Computer science is undeniably the culmination of all practices & sciences.
• “Reason is immortal, all else mortal.”

• “The oldest, shortest words —"yes" and "no"— are those which require the most thought.”

• “Number is the ruler of forms and ideas, and the cause of gods and daemons.”

• “Man know thyself; then thou shalt know the Universe and God.”

— Pythagoras
Creation is not the pieces, it is the order by which the pieces make a thing that is none of them, but is all of them conforming to that order, i.e. a whole.
“Doubtless, it shows the wisdom of God, to have so framed things at first, that there can seldom or never need any extraordinary interposition of his power; or the employing from, time to time, an intelligent overseer, to regulate, assist, and control the motions of matter.”
— Robert Boyle
#linguistics
Definiteness
A quality of noun phrases
:= whether an entity is identifiable in a given context; i.e. it is impossible to ask "which one?"
“Nature laughs at the difficulties of integration.”
— Pierre-Simon Laplace
“No such thing as bad student, only bad teacher. Teacher say, student do.”
— Kesuke Miyagi, The Karate Kid (1984)
“The first-beginnings of things cannot be seen by the eyes.”
— Lucretius