Tic-Xenotation

During the semiotic crisis at MIT and NASA that followed the experiments of Drake, Sager, and the rest at METI and CETI [1.], Professor DC Backer signed a contract with NASA to begin work on an inorganic semiotic decoding system that Designed to help identify meaningful extraterrestrial signals from the noise emitted by pulsars and background radiation. Stationed in Borneo, where he worked on a project called Project Scar [2.], Bakker began developing a system that aimed to "represent foreign referents without reference to any known cultural conventions." Based on the highly abstract symbol system of prime numbers and hyperprimes, Buckle developed a "minimized code" system called "dot-sign notation".

TX takes the Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic (FIA) - that is, any positive integer can be expressed individually by a factor of a prime - as the starting point, by simplifying all notation and operations into two points: tic-clusters and implexions ), narrowly subverting the arithmetic class. The former is ":" and the latter is ":".

In its simplest form, TX uses natural number lines and factors to decompose all non-prime numbers into their component parts, which are then reconstructed according to a series of procedures to dehumanize them. Positive integers greater than 1 follow FIA, and all prime numbers have two related values: magnitude and ordinal value. The quantity is the absolute value of the number in question, while the ordinal value is its position on the prime number line. The quantity of the first prime number 2 is 2 and the sequence value is 1; the quantity of the fourth prime number 7 is 7 and the sequence value is 4. These two values ​​​​are continuously extended, so the quantity of n prime numbers can be regarded as n, and The ordinal value is the remaining undetermined number. The quantity of 2 is represented by ":", so all multiples of 2 can be equivalently expressed as 'nx:', where n is the exponent of 2. 2^3 = 8 = 3x = :::

There are two sets of operations after that: multiplication and implementations. Internal union converts any quantity into an ordinal value, and the new quantity is a prime number.

• 2 = first prime number = : , so (2) = (:) = second prime number = 3, so (3) = ((:)) = third prime number = , so (5) = ((( :)) ) = fifth prime number = 11...

• This also applies to non-prime numbers. 4 = :: , so 4 = (::) = fourth prime number = 7, 9 = 3x3 = (:)(:), so (9) = ((:)(:)) = ninth prime number = 23. ..

Composite numbers are expressed as prime factors, for example 18 = 2x3x3 = :(:)(:)

To cancel the internal conjunction operation, Backer added what he called a deplexion: -P [4.]. The internal combination number (-P) reduces the sequence value of the TX code it is connected to to 1. So when (:) = second prime number = 3, (-P)(:) = first prime number = 2 = :. In this way, it is easy to regard (-P): as the prime number 1, and ((-P)): as the prime number 0. The following are the necessary TX corresponding numbers for the machine for the first ten positive integers (including 0).

• 0 = ((-P)):

• 1 = (-P):

• 2 = :

• 3 = (:)

• 4 = ::

• 5 = ((:))

• 6 = :(:)

• 7 = (::)

• 8 = :::9 = (:)(:)

• 10 = :((:))

Extend this.

There is still a lot of research on TX, which is still ongoing. For more information, click here to view our compiled TX Classic text page.

Click here to view Nick Land's original transcript of TX [digitized by Graham Joncas ( @gjncs )].

Click here to view the TX converter (thanks akira ).

Appendix A:
A letter from an unsigned NASA administrator confirms the existence of Project Trace and the participation of Professor DC Backer. The remaining information was not disclosed by our Freedom of Information Act request.

1. For more information on these early experiments, see Daniel Oberhaus, Extraterrestrial Languages ​​(Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2019); especially Chapters 1 and 2.

2. For more information about Project Trace, see Peter Heft, “Tic-Xenotation as a Solution to Problems of Context: Barker, Derrida, and ETI,” Plutonics 16 (2023): x–y.

3. Vincent Le, "One Two Many: On Nick Land's Numbering Practices," in Colloquy: Text, Theory, Critique 37 (2019): 80-105, 96.

4. Although Buckle treats 'P' as a symbol, it can be removed and replaced by '-'. To maintain synchronization with history and the needs of existing converters, we will retain it.