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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
Book: Nidithe architecture of animals
Phylum: Verticalityimage schema
Class: Decayits ruin
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 XVIII. 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: first cell · 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: wall · view: pinned

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: gathered material · view: detached

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: weave · 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: chamber · view: pressed

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: copy · view: in situ

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: ruin · view: in situ

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 Patience, Symmetry

same kind in Llull Chiaroscuro, Faith, Geomancy, Music, Patience, Ritual, Syllable, Symbol, The Shaping Pause, The Festival Calendar, Subtractive Phenomenology

same phylum Erosion, Faith, Rain, Vertigo

same dominant organ Entropy, Memory

Genome

harmless
wonder
trust also in Faith, Knowing Trust
openness
fall

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

axis	value
book	nidi
symmetry	asymmetric
organization	nested
silhouette	cluster
scale	hand
proportion	tapering latent
growth	faceted
articulation	seamless latent
openness	lattice latent
skeleton	woody latent
locomotion	gliding latent
pattern	rosettes latent
coloration	plain latent
substance	porcelain
surface	veined
palette	iris
luminosity	points
transparency	layered latent
gesture	balances
unity	fragment latent
modality	unmarked latent
causation	final
determinacy	fraying latent
fusion	sprouting
anomaly	knotted
graft	origami
technique	gouache
viewpoint	below
value	chiaroscuro latent
balance	top heavy
density	graded detail
rhythm	alternating latent
saturation	accent latent
appendages	cilia, spines
anchor (body)	a silk cocoon, an oval case of wound threads around an insect pupa
anchor (detail)	hoarfrost, feathery ice crystals growing along an edge

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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