a founder of the codex

Awakening

Egersia matutina·the Dawning Eye

From Greek egersis, a rousing, and Latin matutinus, of the morning, a rousing that comes with the morning.

Level: Conceptorganism
Phylum: Verticalityimage schema
Class: Outputits cave mouth
Niche: Producerraw experience
Mode: Metamorphosishow it keeps existing
Stage: Matureindividuated
Status: Living
Habitat: Dream

Its kinds · Roget, 1852: Change · Wilkins, 1668: Corporeal Action · WordNet, 1990: Process · Llull, 1308: G · Sensitive

Dawning Eye, the whole specimen — Plate VI. Egersia matutina, the whole specimen.

Each morning the brain switches from sleep to waking and the senses open to the world, and the same passage names the wider change from a closed view into an open one.

Every waking is a passage from a closed world into a wider one.

behavior It stirs at the first light or sound, unfolds upward all at once, and blinks for a while in its own brightness.

provocation

What were you asleep to yesterday that you see this morning?

Each draw is the being derived afresh by the current laws at another seed (laws §11); the chosen one leads (where they sit in the morphospace).

I Dissection

Each organ answers one question about the idea. The framed one, its output, is the dominant organ: the being's class, the one the idea could not lose and stay itself.

Kernel of Awakening — Fig. 1. Kernel
Reticular formation
Which premise, if it were false, would kill this idea?
Waking is held up by a network of cells rising from the brainstem to the cortex, and when that network is cut, sleep or coma follows.¹
drawn as: reticular formation · view: exploded

Boundary of Awakening — Fig. 2. Boundary
Dazzle
What sets it apart from what it is not, and how does it keep that distinction?
It is set apart from sleep by the senses opening outward, and its first moments are dazed, as the eyes of the prisoner freed from the cave are dazzled before they see.³
drawn as: dazzle · view: microscope

Intake of Awakening — Fig. 3. Intake
Dawn chorus
What must it feed on to work? What has to be present, noticed or supplied?
It needs a cue, morning light reaching the eyes, a sound, the body's daily clock, or enough sleep to pay off the debt of the day.²
drawn as: dawn chorus · view: transparent

Mechanism of Awakening — Fig. 4. Mechanism
Flip-flop switch
How does it turn what it takes in into what it gives out?
Cells that promote waking and cells that promote sleep inhibit one another, so the brain switches between the two states quickly and rests in few states between.^{2, 1}
drawn as: flip-flop switch · view: detached

Output of Awakening — Fig. 5. Output
Cave mouth
❦ dominant organ
What does it make possible, visible or knowable?
It returns the senses and the will to the world, and in its wider sense it opens a view that was closed, as the prisoner climbs out of the cave into daylight.³
drawn as: cave mouth · view: series

Dispersal of Awakening — Fig. 6. Dispersal
Eye-opener
What part of it travels into other minds, ideas and fields, and by what vector?
It travels as the figure of insight, in the Buddhist word bodhi, in religious revivals named great awakenings, and in every eye-opener that shows a larger world.^{4, 3}
drawn as: eye-opener · view: magnified

Decay of Awakening — Fig. 7. Decay
Sleep paralysis
What can it not digest, where does it fail, and what does it leave behind for others?
Waking can stall halfway, the mind awake in a body that sleep still holds limp, often sensing a weight or a presence close by.⁵
drawn as: sleep paralysis · view: cross section

II Meaning associations

No relations recorded yet.

descent membership food web resemblance or friction

Lineage

A founder, dissected by hand.

Kin

same kind in Roget Entropy, Metamorphosis, Petrification, Threshold, Tongue Horizon

same kind in Wilkins Breath, Shared Breath

same kind in WordNet Breath, Entelechy, Entropy, Erosion, Fire, Metamorphosis, Petrification, Rushmaker, Shared Breath, Self-Ending Order, Tongue Horizon, Witnessed Relief, Gazeroot (second reading), Commemorative Revision, The Swing Door

same kind in Llull Aura, Chimera, Fear, Qualia, Silence, Tinnitus, Vertigo, Babelhum, Shared Breath, The Swing Door

same phylum Cloud, Erosion, Faith, Innocence, Miracle, Rain, Vertigo, Weightlessness

same dominant organ Apophenia, Chiaroscuro, Echolalia, Emergence, Erosion, Glossolalia, Iridescence, Mimesis, Nostalgia, Placebo, Rain, Spring, Babelhum, Afterlistening, Tide of Days

Genome

arousal
light also in Chiaroscuro, Equinox, Reflection
clarity
passage also in River, Threshold
insight

III In the world

Echoes

the dawn chorus of birds
the freed prisoner leaving Plato's cave
the Buddha under the bodhi tree
an alarm clock at six

IV Record

How it was drawn

its draw 1, a point in the morphospace (laws §8), drawn by flux-2-klein-4b.safetensors.

axis	value
book	automata
symmetry	helical
organization	nested
silhouette	sac
scale	microscopic
proportion	graded
growth	intercalary
articulation	telescoping latent
openness	lattice latent
skeleton	exoskeleton latent
locomotion	jetting latent
pattern	reticulate latent
coloration	plain latent
substance	smoke
surface	iridescent
palette	sepia
luminosity	inner glow
transparency	translucent latent
gesture	turns
unity	integral latent
modality	contingent latent
causation	final
determinacy	crisp latent
fusion	sprouting
anomaly	petrified
graft	kintsugi
technique	chromolith
viewpoint	profile
value	unmarked latent
balance	grounded latent
density	graded detail
rhythm	regular latent
saturation	unmarked latent
appendages	spines
anchor (body)	a fruticose lichen, branching grey-green stalks tipped with small cups
anchor (detail)	a diffusion-limited aggregate, a feathery fractal cluster

Sources

Giuseppe Moruzzi and H. W. Magoun, Brain Stem Reticular Formation and Activation of the EEG (Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology, 1949)
Clifford B. Saper, Thomas C. Chou and Thomas E. Scammell, The Sleep Switch: Hypothalamic Control of Sleep and Wakefulness (Trends in Neurosciences, 2001)
Plato, Republic (c. 375 BCE), book 7, the allegory of the cave
Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta, Samyutta Nikaya 56.11
J. Allan Cheyne, Steve D. Rueffer and Ian R. Newby-Clark, Hypnagogic and Hypnopompic Hallucinations during Sleep Paralysis (Consciousness and Cognition, 1999)

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