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# air plane, plein air

<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/build_the_plane_while_flying_it>

my end of the project is fuel source management, I think? managing fuel sources the way a stage manager handles the stage?

becoming fuel agnostic, that's the philosopher's stone in this line of work, and you can't tell it apart from fuel-blindness without the history of its construction

my mind is fuel-blind, I was born that way; my body is *not*, I was born that way

my life has been... clean-cut, I'll say that. it's a very specific kind of clean-room setup.

the [A relief strategy](https://a-relief-strategy.com/) document is about incepting a new kind of engine, one that runs on .. on nothing, really. or, on nothing but one's own presence. as one develops one's presence with it, the engine's output develops. by gradually shifting one's presence away from other engines to *this* one, one effectively becomes one's own energy source. the *fact* of qualia is evidence of the engine running; indistinguishable from qualia being fuel-filtering information, without the history of the engine's construction.


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