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NEFX - "Beginning Meditations on Machine Theory" Machine logics have many different potentials relative to their design and internal logic, such as allowing them to detect when a user has activated or toggled an optional feature within the machine’s framework. However, such function may often be possible to establish within said framework but incidental to the framework’s aim and thus achieved at great pain and effort. The inevitable mistakes, failures, and newly learned obstacles within the current state of the machine’s logical and structural framework can be pretty amusing, but they also further call to mind the purpose, logic, and limits of some of the machine’s more elementary functions. For example, many functions of a machine depend on time-sensitive inputs, particularly as regards time after a threshold of the machine’s operation (sometimes even as simple as on and off) and otherwise within general timeframes that an input must be entered in order to yield certain outputs; and this can often be a side-effect of a machine or machine logic’s design being completed in a way affording of but not ideal for the function currently being tried at (in use or implementation), sometimes out of mere efficiency in completion and utility in purpose — such as when a function within a timeframe of a machine’s activation is itself activated upon triggering of its use and therefore may not carry out its intended function. Such failures in function call to mind mechanisms of the machine or one of its individual programs that may otherwise be taken for granted or not fully recognized in all its role or effects within the machine, such as in needed time thresholds within or without which for inputs to yield their desired outputs. They can also reveal the extent of a machine’s inherent or engine-based limitations, such as in speed or durability, in a way inspiring of innovation both as regards its strengthening in these ways or the level of ingenuity needed to accommodate for this limitation in order to make input-output relations more robust. At the same time, these failures in function can call to mind the relation with other implemented functions for a machine and the potential overreach or encroachment of at least one of two under focus upon the other. Furthermore, they allow astute designers of the machine or machine program to mentally gauge the effect or significance of the machine or machine program's internal rhythm and timing, and how certain detectable quantities and thresholds of such rhythms and timing can yield certain effects. Though such detection and precisely accurate implementation for desired outputs can be strenuous, it can serve the designer well in future design and abstract extrapolation of new design ideas and functions from said experience, as if in an alchemical or sword-forging process. The process of machine optimization in such scenarios as the above can sometimes mislead the designer or outside observers (ironically especially such observers as are designers, given that their knowledge and abstraction regarding the discipline leads their minds to be more given to and allured by a commonly conceived range of scenarios made plausible by experience) about the reason or nature of an obstacle in a machine’s function, sometimes even in the idea that the source of the obstacle is the side-effect of an implementation that theoretically would be a reappropriation of an otherwise unrelated function of the machine for a new one (so as to work within the machine’s current limits for the sake of efficiency and utility as mentioned before). The moment of realization of such a notion’s case-specific falseness, especially where openly expressed in dialogue with the designer in question, can still serve as a mutually helpful dialectic on the many possible design ideas, functions, and solutions for the machine in question, even as they may possibly only be extrapolatable to other machine design processes. Even pondering of the nature and limits of different machine functions, whether ultimately applicable to a machine function under analysis or not, can serve for future designs. But these analyses also serve in that if a rule of a machine’s inherent logic is established to yield only a limited range of outputs (even so much as one) relative to an input that an investigated problem in function applies to, the actual nature of the obstacle to the function may yet bear further analysis. From here, the true nature of functions’ obstacles in general, mainly across different machine programs' designs, can be better grasped and troubleshot. Even basic machine functions largely taken for granted with the tides of experience can be better borne in mind like seldom before. The actual process or design of a function and its potentially contained obstacles to other functions of the machine can be borne out precisely by parsing out, showing, and demonstrating the process or design in a now conscious dialogue. What’s more, more advanced functions of the machine derived from its elementary functions may be the more demonstrated, internalized, and shown in their precise interrelations to the latter and to other functions.