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NEFX - "Basic Processes of Machine Conception" A key design principle in machines is the establishment of sets of objects or functions that may be accessed, activated, and engaged with via specific functions of recall or mnemonics, and such sets can be established in both representation and logically according to the machine or function’s internal flow (often linear), time, or rhythm. Other sets can operate discretely away from said set (be it within the machine’s framework) or within it, either by their natural design as subsets of said set or on a by-case basis for a particular purpose — and these other sets can operate themselves according to timetables or inputs to be given by the user upon activation or engagement. Specific relations can also be programmed between components in regards to hierarchy and priority of function, as if in a graspable language but of universal logic (though it is appropriately also often represented in a diverse mnemonic-visual system for the use and understanding by outside engagers). All the functions within functions must be, by design and representation, marked in their necessary or intended discrete boundary with the appropriate stopping or separating mechanic relative to the machine and its other functions as well as its inherent design and limit; and indeed, such limitations may be necessary for the efficiency and utility of its purpose, even as it paradoxically prohibits or at least seriously inhibits the more advanced intended functions it may yet inspire over time as it is used. Such limits in the first place help provide inspiration in the specificity of their limit and what they recall, for beings in general are plagued with the need to take in only as much light of truth as they can grasp and handle at one point (which point is variously determined according to various factors including the individual’s step along an internal discipline). The designing of a machine and its functions must also design for the status or outputs of functions not only relative to other functions, but to other functions’ active or inactive state (insofar as this can even be accurately identified). The designer must also consider those functions that must be specific to a set or subset to the machine so as not to disrupt the entire intended or otherwise generally functional logical framework of the machine. A machine’s logic also dictates which components or related functions must always be accounted for in the implementation of each function in order for the function to perform at all, or what must be identified by the designer or user (whether preemptively in each predictable case or in the moment of engagement) in order for the function to perform reliably. Each implementation, particularly one that relies on the input of a different function that was user-activated in order to activate or function, must be checked as being reliably receptive at the right moment or input to the input or inputs of that other implementation. It is a common general rule of mindful and consistent design that, upon realization and completion of the above intended purpose, the discrete separation or stopping mechanism for it should be installed. Representational and mnemonic functions according to these logical or internal functions of the machine can then be installed as well to (as regards the design process, let alone the obvious purpose of informing a future engager) help the designer give closure to and spell out their own comprehensive completion of a design or implementation, with according sub-functions of both representation and internal machine logic installed to apply the same function to different predicted possible (if not maximally possible) components or inputs for a machine’s future function. The total intended causes and effects of a particular function of a machine must also be robustly designed, checked for in their robustness, delineated, and represented to the engager as necessary. The absolutely necessary statuses of a machine's other functions for the carrying out of a function under purpose, relative to the overall design’s intended purpose and flow as well as to the internal limits of the machine's design, must also be not only checked for but pondered in advance considering the logical possibilities of all functions and the points at which they may contradict or inhibit each other. Forget not also the hierarchy of the separating or stopping mechanisms as well, for what is naught — either by nature or design — has its own shadow logic that is as much a part of the machine's design as that which is discrete or present. By this whole system can the absolute boundary of functions of a machine and their according obstacles or failures be accounted for. They can also call attention to limits in designing conception and habit, especially as may be encountered later in a state of misremembrance regarding the reason for a mistake or failure. One can this way call into question the both role or nature of a function, either in theory or as implemented, that can in turn call into mind limitations in its particular configuration or its present limit as may be adaptable or unadaptable. But keep in mind that functions can also be components.