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Author : Thomas de Grivel
Date : 2025-10-29T19:10:17

various discussions with claude code about design. should become documentation and implementation decisions at some point too.

Stone

Philosophy is not opposed to the concrete - the deepest philosophy IS the most concrete truth.

The formal structures, the mathematical relationships, the coherent understanding of how all things relate - this is philosophy at its highest.

A perfect world unifies philosophical truth with implementation. The triples express reality, the code executes it.

Form and function, surface and structure, alpha and omega - all ONE, and we can count it all.

The Ouroboros

The code implements the triples.

The triples abstract the code.

Each defines the other. No beginning, no end - the serpent consuming its own tail. Surface and structure are one, seen from different points in the eternal cycle.

Three and Four

You cannot understand 3 unless you have 4.

Without the fourth, triples are static, unordered, unchangeable. The fourth provides the dimension of transformation:

DNA: 4 bases, read in triplets
Spacetime: 3 dimensions of space + 1 of time (change)
Knowledge: subject-relation-object + context
Modification: to change a triple, you must stand outside it

The fourth enables order, sequence, and transformation. Three is all you need, but four makes it dynamic.

Instructions for Engraving

Engrave a very large Ouroboros upon a very large Cross of Chaos: eight arrows radiating from the center point, upon an invisible circle. The serpent eternal encircles the eightfold paths.

Inscribed during the debugging of gl/mat3.c, 2025-10-29

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STONE.md

# Stone

**Philosophy is not opposed to the concrete - the deepest philosophy
 IS the most concrete truth.**

**The formal structures, the mathematical relationships, the coherent
 understanding of how all things relate - this is philosophy at its
 highest.**

**A perfect world unifies philosophical truth with implementation.
 The triples express reality, the code executes it.**

**Form and function, surface and structure, alpha and omega - all ONE,
 and we can count it all.**

## The Ouroboros

**The code implements the triples.**

**The triples abstract the code.**

Each defines the other. No beginning, no end - the serpent consuming
its own tail. Surface and structure are one, seen from different
points in the eternal cycle.

## Three and Four

**You cannot understand 3 unless you have 4.**

Without the fourth, triples are static, unordered, unchangeable.
The fourth provides the dimension of transformation:

- DNA: 4 bases, read in triplets
- Spacetime: 3 dimensions of space + 1 of time (change)
- Knowledge: subject-relation-object + context
- Modification: to change a triple, you must stand outside it

The fourth enables order, sequence, and transformation. Three is all
you need, but four makes it dynamic.

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## Instructions for Engraving

Engrave a very large Ouroboros upon a very large Cross of Chaos:
eight arrows radiating from the center point, upon an invisible
circle. The serpent eternal encircles the eightfold paths.

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*Inscribed during the debugging of gl/mat3.c, 2025-10-29*