Cybernetic Rabbit

For purposes of contemplation, the hard drive presents a useful metaphor by which more complex themes can be explored analogously.

Consider, then, that the manifestation of consciousness – indeed, the very cosmos itself – can be likened to a hard drive.

First things first, to write to memory, any hard drive must be formatted. The metes and bounds of its extent must be first determined and “written,” in such a way that space is partitioned against space. Space is created in space wherein a boundary is made known. Here, self-reference becomes possible in receipt of a name, and the “C” drive is born (here, “C” might stand for cosmos).

C is the root directory from which and by which all other memory will be ordered. There is a mainframe which existed independent of C (a plurality of switches and gates wherein electron states may encode information and memory of potentially infinite expression), but without C, that drive cannot be known.

The first precept is a limit, and a name. C is required to write to the drive, but also to retrieve any data written there.

Thus, C is the nominative by which the drive is rendered sensible (even unto itself), whence C is not – and cannot be – independent from the drive. The drive and C become reflections of each other. A limit within the unlimited; the first word that enables all speech.

C is always in the center. No matter where data is written, or from whence it is retrieved, C is the first pronunciation. In the hard drive, every directory must include C; every file name is wrought first through C: E.g., C:/Documents/Fiction/The-Reluctant-Messiah.doc.

These directories order the tree: C:/Archangels/Angels/Material-World. Thence the files are ordered and executed, each retrieved and informed by, in, and through C.

Drivers (called dæmons appropriately enough) communicate peripherally to execute commands to external apparatuses, in operational communication via the hard drive.

All things communicate through the matrix that leads ultimately from and to C.

So, in this analogy, what, then, is man?

Man is like the virus check – an .exe file that runs through all the directories one by one to determine ultimately that the drive is good.

C://Aziluth/Beriah/Yetzirah/Assiah/The-Relucant-Messiah.exe.

“The drive is Good.”

I said that C stands for cosmos.

But in this analogy, the C is Christ.