Fallout — The Smaller Infinity

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Argument. Language is autocatalytic — each precipitate it deposits (voice, writing, print, digital, computation) increases the density of useful pattern access, shortening the interval to the next threshold — and Turing is the hinge because his precipitate made symbol manipulation itself executable by a machine.

Authority pointers. For the lean, see The Odds. For the loop, see Loops. For 51-49 ratio, see Grace Is a Ratio. For the gradient, see The Gradient. For encoding loops (chemistry, DNA — write, read back, vary, select), see Loops. For language as tool deposited at the crossing between encoding and cognition, see Loops.

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