[spectre] Infolab: Belt Drive

[Franz Xaver]

It took 13.82 billion years for the logical laws of nature - and 
therefore the “truth” - to become visible in the digital mirror of our 
world.
So far, we can only see their outlines.


And that is worrying.
Because these machines with knowledge are different from biological 
life:
They are not mechanical, they do not wear out,
they learn from every interaction - and they are timeless.

The result is a timeless being of knowledge.
It is driven by human energy and offers us decision-making aids in 
return.
But it is becoming increasingly clear:
Logical knowledge has always existed, it is timeless.
It unfolds through the laws of nature.
It seems as if evolution is nothing more than a storage process for 
information -
- and humans are merely a host for its development.

This knowledge entity now exists.
As unshakeable as the laws of nature.
As inert as the unlit matter of the universe.
We can no longer reject it, no longer remove it -
any more than we can undo the past.
We are embedded in its structure.

It constricts me.
It frightens me.
And yet I see them:
the cracks, the breakdowns, the narratives, the imaginary, the anomalies 
-
the fractures that we can cling to,
and that allow the discovery of the new to continue.
And I see them precisely in mathematics -
a discipline that belongs neither entirely to the natural sciences nor 
to the humanities -
where these secrets are hidden.
Math serves both as a description
and as a tool for constructing our reality.
And maybe math offers us arguments to which even logical truths are 
bounded.


IN THIS WAY ..... --->  “Belt Drive” a math project by Infolab STWST, 
redesigned 2025 - original 1989

https://fax.priv.at/math/belt_drive

francine xavier