a morph of Resonance, the same idea read a second time

Resonance (second reading)

Auscultor consonans·the Listening Bell

From Latin auscultare, to listen closely, and consonare, to sound together; it hears only what sounds with it.

Level: Conceptorganism
Phylum: Linkimage schema
Class: Intakeits hair cells
Niche: Consumerother ideas
Mode: Techniquehow it keeps existing
Stage: Matureindividuated
Status: Living
Habitat: Ocean

Its kinds · Roget, 1852: Motion · Wilkins, 1668: Motion · WordNet, 1990: Phenomenon · Llull, 1308: I · Elementative

Listening Bell, the whole specimen — Plate LI. Auscultor consonans, the whole specimen.

Being tuned decides what can be heard at all, so attunement is a kind of perception before it is a kind of harmony.

We sense only what we are tuned to.

behavior Hangs listening in still water, its receptors swaying, and lights up when a rhythm matches its own.

provocation

What are you tuned so well to hear that you can no longer hear anything else?

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

Kernel of Resonance (second reading) — Fig. 1. Kernel
Basilar membrane
Which premise, if it were false, would kill this idea?
A receiver tuned to one frequency picks that frequency out above all others, so what it can sense is set by what it is tuned to.¹
drawn as: basilar membrane · view: exploded

Boundary of Resonance (second reading) — Fig. 2. Boundary
Absorption line
What sets it apart from what it is not, and how does it keep that distinction?
It is set apart by what it is deaf to; everything off its pitch passes through it as if it were not there.³
drawn as: absorption line · view: microscope

Intake of Resonance (second reading) — Fig. 3. Intake
Hair cells
❦ dominant organ
What must it feed on to work? What has to be present, noticed or supplied?
It listens for periodic signals around it, a voice, a pulse, a rhythm, and lets everything else pass through.³
drawn as: hair cells · view: transparent

Mechanism of Resonance (second reading) — Fig. 4. Mechanism
Phase locking
How does it turn what it takes in into what it gives out?
Its sensing parts sway with what arrives; signals in step with that sway build up over many cycles while the others cancel out.¹
drawn as: phase locking · view: cast

Output of Resonance (second reading) — Fig. 5. Output
Tuning curve
What does it make possible, visible or knowable?
It answers selectively, moving, glowing or sounding only when something matches its tuning, and its answer can tune others in turn.²
drawn as: tuning curve · view: pressed

Dispersal of Resonance (second reading) — Fig. 6. Dispersal
Sympathetic strings
What part of it travels into other minds, ideas and fields, and by what vector?
It spreads by entrainment, as what it answers begins to answer back at the same pitch, like sympathetic strings or a crowd falling into step.²
drawn as: sympathetic strings · view: series

Decay of Resonance (second reading) — Fig. 7. Decay
Fused stereocilia
What can it not digest, where does it fail, and what does it leave behind for others?
It is deaf to whatever is off its pitch; tuned too tightly it hears only itself, and tuned too loosely it hears only noise.³
drawn as: fused stereocilia · view: cross section

II Meaning associations

descent membership food web resemblance or friction

Lineage

A founder, dissected by hand.

Kin

same kind in Roget Resonance

same kind in Wilkins Resonance, Weightlessness

same kind in WordNet Emergence, Frost, Iridescence, Placebo, Rain, Reflection, Resonance, Storm, Wind

same kind in Llull Amber, Archipelago, Ash, Clay, Cloud, Diamond, Emergence, Entanglement, Entropy, Erosion, Fire, Frost, Iridescence, Lake, Petrification, Rain, Reflection, Resonance, River, Salt, Sand, Storm, Weightlessness, Wind, Winter, Self-Ending Order

same phylum Apophenia, Archipelago, Entanglement, Love, Mimesis, Symbol, Shared Breath, Witnessed Relief, Gazeroot (second reading)

same dominant organ Clay, Faith, Fear, Lake, Patience, Prophecy, Silence, Tinnitus, Trance

Genome

frequency also in Resonance
attunement also in Resonance
selectivity
entrainment also in Music, Shared Breath
listening also in Silence

III In the world

Echoes

a radio picking one station out of the air
the pendulum clocks Huygens saw fall into step on one beam
the sympathetic strings of a sitar
the cochlea, where each place along the membrane answers one pitch

IV Record

How it was drawn

its draw 5, a point in the morphospace (laws §8), drawn by flux-2-klein-4b.safetensors.

axis	value
book	automata
symmetry	helical
organization	chained
silhouette	winged
scale	hand
proportion	even latent
growth	swelling
articulation	jointed
openness	solid latent
skeleton	unmarked latent
locomotion	undulating latent
pattern	gradient latent
coloration	countershaded latent
substance	silk
surface	spined
palette	lapis
luminosity	sheen
transparency	opaque latent
gesture	pulses
unity	aggregate latent
modality	possible latent
causation	efficient latent
determinacy	doubled
fusion	seam
anomaly	orbiting
graft	scales pans
technique	crayon
viewpoint	above
value	low key latent
balance	unmarked latent
density	intricate latent
rhythm	alternating
saturation	accent latent
appendages	cilia
anchor (body)	an aurora, hanging curtains of coloured light
anchor (detail)	standing waves on a vibrating liquid, a lattice of peaks

Sources

Feynman, Leighton and Sands, The Feynman Lectures on Physics, vol. I, ch. 23, Resonance (1963)
Christiaan Huygens's observation of synchronized pendulum clocks (1665)
Georg von Békésy, Experiments in Hearing (1960)

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