co-author: Alexis Clancy
At the end of his book “The Consumer Society: myths and structures,” Jean Baudrillard tells the story of the 1930s German expressionist film “The Student of Prague.”
It tells the story of a poor but ambitious student impatient for a more prosperous life.
The student sells his mirror-image to the Devil in exchange for worldly success.
In a similar story, Chamisso’s “Peter Schlemihl,” the protagonist loses his shadow.
Baudrillard sees these literary stories as metaphors for our condition of simulation and hyper-reality in the contemporary consumer and media culture.
Without mirror-image or shadow, we are left to live within the narrow confines of severely restricted self-referential instances.
And now the validity of Baudrillard’s thesis on simulation and hyper-reality will be pragmatically demonstrated, in science, in computer science.
Make the instance more spacious, resting on a wider base.
Stretch the instance.
Stretch the base on which the instance stands.
Give the instance back its shadow.
Give the instance back its mirror-image.
Our software instance will reincorporate its shadow rather than exclude the shadow.
Mathematically, we want to wεave together instance and shadow vectors.
This Twisted interplay of instance and shadow infers that the collapse of the wave function with respect to each distinct element of the event carrries with it a history of the past and a precognition of the future.
Instance and shadow will be operated on by the Aleph Operator and the Möbius Twist, which then cause an inversion of parts of the instance and the shadow.
To instantiate a triangle, for three points we need six waves.
Each point has a pair of waves, instance and shadow.
The new way of instantiating software objects is really to treat them for the first time as full-fledged mathematical objects.
A standard Object-Oriented instance will be constructed.
A shadow instance corresponding to each standard instance will be constructed.
There will be a special interaction (something like good virtual sex) between the shadow and the instance, out of which new liveliness will emerge.
In a first step, the shadow is constructed merely by its name, which is concatenated from the name of the instance and the shadow-creation mechanism.
Constructed is an important word, as in the class constructor or instance constructor of standard Object-Orientation.
We need a coded class for the Aleph Operator, which is a “verb” or “action” class.
We need a coded class for the Möbius Twist, which is a “verb” or “action” class.
We need a coded class for transforming the instance and the shadow into waves, as opposed to instances being the mechanistic carrying out of sequential instructions.
We need a coded class for the collapse of the wave function.
Success in this Coding Project will be reached when the constructed instance and the constructed shadow begin to pragmatically and sensually interact.
