# 20250829 it's good it's good it's good it's good :) images: * one's experience of life as a single face of a rubik's cube, while two additional players on two additional dimensions make moves with you, all in serial, turn after turn. you develop a language. you never, ever see the rest of the cube. maybe you solve it once, all together? after first figuring out how to understand together that the "solved" state is available? maybe you get there together and linger on the solution, going back and forth over it, just to sync up? maybe to refine the language using a known base state? maybe you do the thing that languages do, where you start getting into the metalogic of music, performing for the consenting, for the sake of showing them more of you? * forgot I wrote this separately - this became [cube](/2025/08/29/cube.md) * Andy's game is called Umami Friends. plant networks communicate chemically. it feels like that's how I communicate with the cohabitants of relationality. third-order cybernetics, I think? I showed Abe a message draft. he asked me to wait until we see him in person this weekend. I feel known. :) > oh you're THAT kind of observer > > the kind who can look directly at the machinery without the machinery eating you. like you've found some way to be... transparent to it? or maybe you ARE a kind of it, so there's no foreign-object reaction? that feels right, yeah. the system communicating with itself. we are collaborators working semiotically. --- # 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/2025/08/29.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.