the cycle

The term "game" is used as defined in The Stack.

This text describes the source and nature of the codes around and within us.

Code is the 5th layer in the stack of human reality, after pattern, shape, story and game.

Through examples we will see the relation between violence, codes and needs.


Everything we lack in life can be seen through the code lens.

All needs, meaning and hierarchies are code-based.

To understand the codes' nature is to understand own nature.


We will close with these personal questions to the matrix:

  • Why is there tension in me?
  • What codes am I a medium of?
  • How do I find peace?

Violence

The violence is a change of one shape by another.

A change may alter either the shape's proportions or its integrity.

The former is a usage, the latter is both a destruction and creation.


Even destruction can be relied upon if it is regular.

Cyclical violence is the source of every pattern, mind and code.

The cycles are reflected in and as the mind.


The cyclical violence of a tree bends a brain differently for the first time the tree is:

  • seen - it is not known as a tree yet;
  • recognized - the pattern of a tree has been formed;
  • read about - the pattern has been named.

Code

The code is a map between violent changes and games.

A piece of code maps through shape's proportions the violence received to violence generated.

A piece of code maps through violence the shape before to shape after.


Shape in a game coherent with a code is its medium.

A code exists as long as it has a medium.

A shape is a medium of at least one code.


It takes a whole code stack to mediate the cycles of violence necessary for the change of:

  • a seed into sprout;
  • a sprout into tree;
  • a tree into paper.

Cyclical code

The cyclical code is one, which medium is cyclical.

Cyclical medium starts a new cycle before its own ends.

A new cycle starts with medium's self-replication.


Codes constantly lose own media to other codes.

Medium loss is certain yet unpredictable.

Self-replicating code is forever in need of a new medium.


Code's cycle continues as long as its need for replication is compensated:

  • the cells in a seed produce more cells in more seeds;
  • the seeds in a tree produce more seeds in more trees;
  • the words on paper produce more words on more paper.

Needs

The need is a lack of both shape and violence to be compensated.

Shape and violence both start and end code execution.

Uncompensated need is a threat to its code.


Each medium's need is a reflection of its code stack.

Each medium's meaning is a reflection of its needs stack.

Each medium's value hierarchy is a reflection of its meaning stack.


The code's needs are compensated through violence meaningful to the code's pieces, which makes:

  • a seed open;
  • a sprout grow;
  • an axe swing.

Why is there tension in me?

The tension is between the codes I am a medium of.

My codes have needs opposing each other.

I threaten one when I submit to another.


I am stuck in a cycle of constant threat.

I compensate the need which seems more limiting in a given context.

Limitation changes with a context considered.


Every time I submit to one of a pair, the need for another gets threatened:

  • porn and pair-bonding;
  • ideology and friendship;
  • sugar and health.

What codes am I a medium of?

I am a medium of the codes which needs I submit to.

Every day I do, speak, think and feel thousands of actions, words, thoughts and feelings.

Every single one of them is a compensation of some code's need.


I only become conscious when compensation of a need fails.

My attention is codes' tool for failure resolution.

To know myself, to know my codes, I need to attend to my attention.


I catch both a need and its code in action when I notice that:

  • the same thought keeps interrupting;
  • I cannot look the other in the eye;
  • I cannot stop looking at a shape.

How do I find peace?

I can only find peace in submission to a coherent code stack.

My code stack is incoherent as long as its codes keep me in the cycles of constant threat.

Cycles of threat caught in action reveal to me the codes' incoherence.


There is no higher threat than incoherence accumulated in time.

It makes my need of coherence the most limiting of all when all contexts are considered.

I will compensate it over the needs of the incoherent codes despite the terror they make me feel.


I find peace when I turn into glory the death of my:

  • code;
  • mind;
  • body.