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THE FIRST OBSERVER

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FIELD NOTE 14

THE FIRST OBSERVER

Relationship may come before object.

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WHY IT MATTERS

Snake cosmology asks what remains if space, objects, and observers are not assumed at the beginning.

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Imagine a point with no outside, no clock, and nowhere else to stand. When distinction appears, relationship appears. The Society wonders whether relationship is more fundamental than the things humans later identify as objects.

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Draw one point. Then two. Ask what exists with two that could not exist with one: difference, distance, relationship, information, self, other?

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