a founder of the codex

Storm

Turbocella exonerans·the Unburdening Cell

From Latin turbo, a whirl, cella, a small chamber, and exonerare, to unload; a whirling chamber that unloads what it held.

Level
Conceptorganism
Book
Meteorathe meteorological atlas
Phylum
Forceimage schema
Class
Mechanismits convection cell
Niche
Producerraw experience
Mode
Reproductionhow it keeps existing
Stage
Matureindividuated
Status
Living
Habitat
Ocean

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

Unburdening Cell, the whole specimen
Plate XXXVI. Turbocella exonerans, the whole specimen.

Tension stored past a threshold is released as a force that remakes its surroundings and then spends itself.

What is held back does not disappear; it waits for a trigger.

behavior Sits low and heavy for days, climbs in minutes into a tower, and is gone by evening.

provocation

Where is tension building in a place you know, and what would its first lifting look like?

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

Kernel of Storm

Fig. 1. Kernel

Loaded gun

Which premise, if it were false, would kill this idea?

Instability that accumulates quietly is released all at once, and the release reorganizes everything around it.1

drawn as: condensation nucleus · view: cross section

Boundary of Storm

Fig. 2. Boundary

Capping inversion

What sets it apart from what it is not, and how does it keep that distinction?

It is held in by a lid of warm air aloft; until that cap breaks, the instability is only potential.1

drawn as: front · view: in situ

Intake of Storm

Fig. 3. Intake

Moisture tongue

What must it feed on to work? What has to be present, noticed or supplied?

It feeds on warm moist air trapped beneath cooler air, a store of energy held by a lid until something lifts it.1

drawn as: inflow · view: microscope

Mechanism of Storm

Fig. 4. Mechanism

Hot tower

❦ dominant organ

How does it turn what it takes in into what it gives out?

Rising air condenses and releases heat, which drives it higher, a runaway loop that builds towers, lightning and downdrafts within an hour.1

drawn as: convection cell · view: transparent

Output of Storm

Fig. 5. Output

Cloudburst

What does it make possible, visible or knowable?

It discharges the stored energy as rain, wind and lightning, and leaves a cleared and cooled sky.1

drawn as: precipitation · view: detached

Dispersal of Storm

Fig. 6. Dispersal

Gust front

What part of it travels into other minds, ideas and fields, and by what vector?

Its outflow lifts new storms at its edges, and it travels as the image of upheaval, from the storm of passion to the storm of revolt.1, 2

drawn as: plume · view: exploded

Decay of Storm

Fig. 7. Decay

Orphan anvil

What can it not digest, where does it fail, and what does it leave behind for others?

It exhausts itself by cutting off its own inflow with cold downdrafts, and it cannot hold the calm it produces.1

drawn as: dissipation · view: magnified

II Meaning associations

gave rise to · holdstakes fromoffspring, by graftingfeeds · output → intakeSelf-Fulfilling AlarmRush BreakerFearBristling Sentinel

descent membership food web resemblance or friction

Lineage

A founder, dissected by hand.

Offspring

Food web

  • feeds the output of Fear → its intake
    Fear gives flight and a startle; Storm feeds on a store of energy held under a lid until something lifts it. A startle is such a lift.
  • homology its kernel resembles the mechanism of Fear
    Both release at once what was held. Storm's instability breaks its cap; Fear floods the body in a moment.
  • friction its boundary rubs against the boundary of Fear
    Storm is held by a physical lid; Fear needs an object. A storm happens to no one in particular, while fear is always someone's.
  • grafted its mechanism grafted the intake of Fear
    Storm's runaway loop, each rise driving the next, can be fed by Fear's food, signs of threat taken in before they are checked. In a crowd, each who flees is a sign of threat to the next.

Kin

same kind in Roget Erosion, Fire, Rain, Salt, Wind

same kind in Wilkins Fire, Rain, Wind

same kind in WordNet Emergence, Placebo, Rain, Resonance, Resonance (Automata), Wind

same kind in Llull Amber, Emergence, Entanglement, Entropy, Erosion, Fire, Rain, Resonance, Resonance (Automata), Salt, Wind, Self-Ending Order

same phylum Fear, Fire, Volition, Self-Fulfilling Alarm, Self-Ending Order

same dominant organ Chimera, Dream, Fire, Metamorphosis, Music, Presence, Resonance, Ritual, Symbol, The Common Lung, Self-Fulfilling Alarm, Shared Breath, Self-Ending Order, Witnessed Relief (Mycelia), Commemorative Revision, Fear's Breath, The Shaping Pause, Simultaneous Remembering, Poetry, Subtractive Phenomenology

Genome

III In the world

Echoes

  • a thunderstorm on a hot afternoon
  • outflow boundaries that set off new storms
  • the Sturm und Drang movement
  • a long-held argument finally breaking out

IV Record

How it was drawn

its draw 3, a point in the morphospace (laws §8), drawn by flux-2-klein-4b.safetensors.

axisvalue
bookmeteora
symmetrydendritic
organizationchained
silhouettebell
scalehand
proportiontapering
growthgnomonic
articulationtethered latent
opennesslattice latent
skeletonunmarked latent
locomotionjetting
patternplain latent
colorationnuptial latent
substancewax
surfacespined
palettehumus
luminositysheen
transparencytransparent latent
gesturepulses
unityfragment
modalityunmarked latent
causationfinal latent
determinacydissolving latent
fusionsprouting
anomalywound bloom
graftwax
techniquewatercolour
viewpointbelow
valuechiaroscuro latent
balanceunmarked latent
densityunmarked latent
rhythmalternating latent
saturationvivid latent
appendagespetals
anchor (body)an aurora, hanging curtains of coloured light
anchor (detail)a bronchial tree, branching airways ending in clusters of small sacs

Sources

  1. Kerry Emanuel, Atmospheric Convection (1994)
  2. The Sturm und Drang movement in German letters (1760s to 1780s)

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