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Innocence

Innoxella aperta·the Unharmed Gaze

From Latin innoxius, harmless, and apertus, open, for a harmless creature open on every side.

Level: Conceptorganism
Phylum: Verticalityimage schema
Class: Decayits forbidden fruit
Niche: Producerraw experience
Mode: Reproductionhow it keeps existing
Stage: Matureindividuated
Status: Living
Habitat: Forest

Its kinds · Roget, 1852: Moral Affections · Wilkins, 1668: Habit · WordNet, 1990: Attribute · Llull, 1308: K · Instrumentative

Unharmed Gaze, the whole specimen — Plate XXVIII. Innoxella aperta, the whole specimen.

A gaze that harm has yet to reach trusts what it sees, and it is known most clearly by the first betrayal that ends it.

To see the world as good is a gift that ends the first time the world betrays it.

behavior Turns its whole face toward each new thing, and leans its weight on the wind as if the wind were good.

provocation

What did you believe about the world before the first time it let you down?

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 decay, is the dominant organ: the being's class, the one the idea could not lose and stay itself.

Kernel of Innocence — Fig. 1. Kernel
Harmless dove
Which premise, if it were false, would kill this idea?
Its premise is a gaze that harm has yet to touch, so it meets the world expecting good. The Latin innocens means harmless.²
drawn as: harmless dove · view: transparent

Boundary of Innocence — Fig. 2. Boundary
Clean hands
What sets it apart from what it is not, and how does it keep that distinction?
It is defined against guilt, and the law keeps that line by presuming every accused person innocent until guilt is proved.³
drawn as: clean hands · view: detached

Intake of Innocence — Fig. 3. Intake
Sense of wonder
What must it feed on to work? What has to be present, noticed or supplied?
It feeds on wonder, on the first sight of tides, stars and small living things, met while they are still new.⁵
drawn as: sense of wonder · view: series

Mechanism of Innocence — Fig. 4. Mechanism
Face value
How does it turn what it takes in into what it gives out?
It works by openness, taking each thing at face value with its guard down, so whatever comes reaches it whole.^{4, 2}
drawn as: face value · view: exploded

Output of Innocence — Fig. 5. Output
Basic trust
What does it make possible, visible or knowable?
It gives trust, the sense that the world and its people can be relied on, which an infant forms first when its care is steady.⁴
drawn as: basic trust · view: cross section

Dispersal of Innocence — Fig. 6. Dispersal
Spotless lamb
What part of it travels into other minds, ideas and fields, and by what vector?
It travels in the image of the child's gaze, the lamb and the garden before the fall, as poems and scripture carry it.^{2, 1}
drawn as: spotless lamb · view: detached

Decay of Innocence — Fig. 7. Decay
Forbidden fruit
❦ dominant organ
What can it not digest, where does it fail, and what does it leave behind for others?
It ends at the first betrayal, since harm once known stays known, as the eyes opened in Eden stay open. What it leaves is experience, the knowing that Blake set beside it.^{1, 2}
drawn as: forbidden fruit · view: pressed

II Meaning associations

No relations recorded yet.

descent membership food web resemblance or friction

Lineage

A founder, dissected by hand.

Kin

same kind in Wilkins Geomancy, Music, Patience, Hesychology, Subtractive Phenomenology

same kind in WordNet Aura, Patience, Symmetry

same kind in Llull Chiaroscuro, Faith, Geomancy, Lullaby, Music, Patience, Pointillism, Ritual, Syllable, Symbol, Foresilence, Tide of Days, Subtractive Phenomenology

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

same dominant organ Entropy, Memory, Oblivion, Petrification

Genome

harmless
wonder also in Miracle
trust also in Faith, Knowing Trust
openness
fall also in Weightlessness

III In the world

Echoes

Blake's Songs of Innocence
the garden of Eden
the presumption of innocence in a courtroom
a toddler reaching for a stranger's hand

IV Record

How it was drawn

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

axis	value
book	flora
symmetry	amorphous
organization	nested
silhouette	cluster
scale	immense
proportion	tapering latent
growth	faceted
articulation	tethered latent
openness	lattice
skeleton	endoskeleton latent
locomotion	burrowing latent
pattern	labyrinth latent
coloration	cryptic latent
substance	nacre
surface	mottled
palette	gilt
luminosity	inner glow
transparency	transparent
gesture	balances
unity	integral latent
modality	unmarked latent
causation	final
determinacy	unmarked latent
fusion	carried
anomaly	one break
graft	stair
technique	hatching
viewpoint	below
value	chiaroscuro latent
balance	leaning latent
density	sparse latent
rhythm	alternating latent
saturation	unmarked latent
appendages	petals, cilia
anchor (body)	a fluorite octahedron, glassy and colour-zoned
anchor (detail)	a Lichtenberg figure, a branching tree of discharge burned into a surface

Sources

Genesis 2 and 3
William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1794)
Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948), article 11
Erik H. Erikson, Childhood and Society (1950)
Rachel Carson, The Sense of Wonder (1965)

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