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Wind

Anemopora aequans·the Levelling Current

From Greek anemos, wind, and poros, passage, and Latin aequans, levelling, a passage of air that evens out what is uneven.

Level: Conceptorganism
Book: Pathematathe treatise on the passions
Phylum: Pathimage schema
Class: Dispersalits contagion
Niche: Producerraw experience
Mode: Metamorphosishow 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

Levelling Current, the whole specimen — Plate XLII. Anemopora aequans, the whole specimen.

Wind is air moving down a difference of pressure, so it exists only while the world is uneven, and it carries whatever it passes through.

Wherever one place presses on another, something is set moving and carries the rest along.

behavior It is seen only in what it moves, leaning grass and running cloud, and it slackens to stillness the moment the difference that drives it is spent.

provocation

What difference in your life is moving you now, and what are you carrying because of it?

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

Kernel of Wind — Fig. 1. Kernel
Pressure gradient
Which premise, if it were false, would kill this idea?
Wind is air set moving by an uneven world, and it lasts only while one place presses harder than its neighbour.²
drawn as: spark · view: transparent

Boundary of Wind — Fig. 2. Boundary
Friction layer
What sets it apart from what it is not, and how does it keep that distinction?
It is set apart from still air by speed alone, graded from calm to hurricane, and friction slows its lowest layer toward calm.³
drawn as: skin · view: magnified

Intake of Wind — Fig. 3. Intake
Differential heating
What must it feed on to work? What has to be present, noticed or supplied?
It feeds on differences of pressure, made when the sun warms land and sea, equator and poles, unevenly.^{1, 2}
drawn as: nerve net · view: microscope

Mechanism of Wind — Fig. 4. Mechanism
Geostrophic flow
How does it turn what it takes in into what it gives out?
Air flows from high pressure toward low, and the turning of the earth bends the flow sideways, so the trade winds blow from the east.²
drawn as: flush · view: microscope

Output of Wind — Fig. 5. Output
Full sail
What does it make possible, visible or knowable?
It carries heat, moisture and dust around the globe, raises the waves, and filled the sails that first crossed the oceans.¹
drawn as: signal · view: at work

Dispersal of Wind — Fig. 6. Dispersal
Thistledown
❦ dominant organ
What part of it travels into other minds, ideas and fields, and by what vector?
It carries pollen, seeds and spores across seas, and it travels into thought as the figure of spirit, the breath that blows where it will.^{4, 5}
drawn as: contagion · view: series

Decay of Wind — Fig. 7. Decay
Doldrums
What can it not digest, where does it fail, and what does it leave behind for others?
Where pressure evens out it dies to calm, as in the windless belt along the equator. It leaves dunes, leaning trees and carved rock behind.^{2, 3}
drawn as: afterglow · view: cast

II Meaning associations

No relations recorded yet.

descent membership food web resemblance or friction

Lineage

A founder, dissected by hand.

Kin

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

same kind in Wilkins Fire, Rain, Storm

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

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

same phylum Entelechy, Memory, Music, Nostalgia, Prophecy, Ritual, Tongue Horizon, Afterlistening

same dominant organ Breath, Witnessed Relief

Genome

gradient also in Entropy, Self-Ending Order
flow also in Self-Ending Order
carrying
inspiration
possession

III In the world

Echoes

the trade winds of the age of sail
dandelion seeds lifted on a breeze
the spirit that blows where it will
a sand dune walking downwind

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	pathemata
symmetry	dendritic
organization	chained
silhouette	sac
scale	hand
proportion	even latent
growth	swelling
articulation	tethered
openness	spongy
skeleton	endoskeleton latent
locomotion	undulating latent
pattern	gradient
coloration	countershaded latent
substance	obsidian
surface	glossy
palette	lichen
luminosity	sheen
transparency	opaque latent
gesture	emits
unity	unmarked latent
modality	unmarked latent
causation	material latent
determinacy	dissolving latent
fusion	becoming
anomaly	unfinished
graft	kintsugi
technique	crayon
viewpoint	motion
value	chiaroscuro latent
balance	leaning latent
density	sparse latent
rhythm	alternating latent
saturation	unmarked latent
appendages	plumes, sails
anchor (body)	a comb jelly, an oval glassy body with eight rows of beating iridescent combs
anchor (detail)	a maple samara, a winged seed that spins as it falls

Sources

Edmond Halley, An Historical Account of the Trade Winds, and Monsoons, Observable in the Seas between and near the Tropicks (Philosophical Transactions, 1686)
George Hadley, Concerning the Cause of the General Trade-Winds (Philosophical Transactions, 1735)
Francis Beaufort, the Beaufort wind force scale (1805)
Henry N. Ridley, The Dispersal of Plants Throughout the World (1930)
John 3:8

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