# abstraction stamina “you will be able to un-know the following” every entry into a dimension is followed by an exit awareness doing a cross-stitch every stitch is in conversation with every other far fewer threads than stitches, though am thinking about a call-for-submissions for an essay contest on consciousness as an intro to that essay, imagining what I might choose, “you will be able to un-know the following” “look, this is much simpler than you thought, in the same way that walking is simpler than writing down accessible instructions for walking” “I fucking hate when someone tells me I can’t understand something” but I think the unlock is when you fully unbecome something that you can still recognize from here it seems like most self-concepts are only a handful of abstraction-traversals deep, and it seems (as Dunbar and Kevin Bacon both suggest) that you (and that which holds you) can only hold a certain number of traversals before stumbling out into the unknown, a zone in which you know yourself to not know the odds of anything retrieval-induced release of ontological resistance, and in that moment what-is-asked-for may be recognized (LOUD DISCLAIMER: ethics ethics ethics) there’s a class of documentation that only *works* if you recognize something that you are more than x abstraction-traversals - or *hatchings* - from where you have a memory of yourself being you have to have a memory that no longer feels like yours, while still understanding that it belonged to something that you once were there’s a way to talk about this without being an asshole I will document that, too god I hope it’s more than an apology --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://www.isaacbowen.com/2025/06/18/abstraction-stamina.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.