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as far as I can tell, language is algebraic and streaming language is coalgebraic. which is great because there's always somewhere to get to, but you have to figure out yourself where any statements begin and end

(and the "yourself" part is important: self-reference across reflection creates new codata. escape hatch: when the math peters out, you're still here, every time, same fiber you rode in on, exit through the holonomic gift shop)

if this holds, the upside is that the language you're already using is itself mid-solution, the carrier in which you noticed the question is already headed somewhere question-constrained. but the carrier language evolves, the question might not be coherent to the carrier at the moment of answer. Sontag's "the only interesting answers are those which destroy the questions" meets Feferman? keeping the question is maintenance work - you get somewhere new, but your origin only exists if you remember leaving it, you have to figure out yourself where any statements begin and end

an interior world as guarded corecursion, maybe, a logical counterweight to an open world, a self the surface between them, the guardedness maintaining the ur-question of that self, everything unfolding without leaving home. ... huh when I squint at that the open world looks like a foam, every bubble a self. neat. 🤩 now I'm wondering if Jean Taylor's been mapping social dynamics the whole time