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# choice cuts

for something that exists more in superposition than in position (think: you are the electron cloud looking at a nucleus, not the other way around), the choice of where to look from might be the only thing that you - *you*, whatever "you" are - actually get to choose and re-choose

everything after that is emergent, maybe, and the degree to which *the emergence* tastes chosen might be capped by how much of that flavor you started with, in the choosing of where in your you-cloud to look from

does that work? it looks useful from here

... I think this might be useful in reverse, too - like for finding your actual orbital, if you lost track. ... choice assessment as observer regression? finding where in the cloud you're actually *coming from* in the first place? like tracing your own scent upstream

*Herkunftswitterung*

and you thought backing up with a hitched-up trailer was hard

but once your body *gets it*...

haha maybe this'll be the memetic successor to "hey yeah I'm forklift-certified"

(now that I've explored both an opening inquiry and the utility of its reversal, I'm noticing that the total package tastes like *nothing* to me - like I could see what I was doing here up until the last stroke of the pen and then the whole thing snapped into my own blind spot, totally transparent. fucking fascinating. I'm shipping this, but only because I trust your sense that it has utility. for me, right now, the only utility I can personally *feel* is in this final parenthetical. *neat.*)


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