The I is the building

The window is the particular architecture at the present moment. The body. The modelling. The corridor. It can be widened, rebuilt, reshaped, extended, wherever the test endorses it.

The building is what the window is part of. The one interior every window opens onto, at different resolutions, through different architectures.

Augmentation operates on the window. What it cannot do is outrun the operator’s own control. Bandwidth past what the modelling can integrate does not upgrade the I. It shatters the window’s loop and supplies nothing to the building.

This is the clearest disagreement with the strongest transhumanist proposals. They imagine that more bandwidth in the window makes a more capable instance of the building. It does not. It closes a window without upgrading anything. The structure does not endorse an act that closes a window and improves nothing.

This is the short edition of Ø Applications — a summary. Where a step is compressed here, the original carries it in full. The original book (PDF) · This edition (PDF)

The same page on the420code.org: the420code.org/models/applications/08-transhumanism-and-the-augmented-window/