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#GUCAC negation and its uses.

Negation is proposed metadata for indicating the complement of a term's meaning.

GUCAC forms thoughts from inside to outside. The first four stages of thought formation are Creation, Description, Articulation and Specialization. These stages correspond to the four layers of a glyph. An optional fifth stage is negation which corresponds to unplugging the hub.

Negation comes last because positive logic tends to be less confusing than negative logic. Thus ideas are first constructed of positive thoughts and then revealed to be false and disbelieved as needed.

The hub is the triangle and circle in the center of the glyph as shown in this diagram.

Terminology and Graphic Conventions
The line segments (elements) within a glyph are further classified as radial spokes or circumferential laths in inner or outer layers, and are aligned in eight distinct directions (octants). Within each layer the elements are also grouped on either the right or left side. The central circle (hub, not an element) is positive or true when filled (plugged, the triangular plug is an element) and negative or false when empty (unplugged). These classifications are used to provide a symbolic superstructure which help a viewer to associate the state of the glyph (aspect) with its meaning (term).

The hub is always printed. This provides a reference for the placement of the other elements. Without a hub it is difficult to tell if a single spoke is above or below the center and whether it is an inner or outer spoke. The plug within the hub is a triangle that 'points' to the left. This is intended to show the orientation of a glyph (in case it is viewed upside down). The triangle points to the 'beginning' (the left inner spokes) of a glyph.

More, less, major, minor, active and passive (Yang and Yin) are common principals across the mental, social and physical realms. By tying these binary principals to the classifications described above, we hope to associate a glyph's aspect with an engram of an individual's experience and thereby imbue it with meaning.

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#GUCAC negation and its uses.

Negation is proposed metadata for indicating the complement of a term's meaning.

GUCAC forms thoughts from inside to outside. The first four stages of thought formation are Creation, Description, Articulation and Specialization. These stages correspond to the four layers of a glyph. An optional fifth stage is negation which corresponds to unplugging the hub.

Negation comes last because positive logic tends to be less confusing than negative logic. Thus ideas are first constructed of positive thoughts and then revealed to be false and disbelieved as needed.

The hub is the triangle and circle in the center of the glyph as shown in this diagram.

Terminology and Graphic Conventions
The line segments (elements) within a glyph are further classified as radial spokes or circumferential laths in inner or outer layers, and are aligned in eight distinct directions (octants). Within each layer the elements are also grouped on either the right or left side. The central circle (hub, not an element) is positive or true when filled (plugged, the triangular plug is an element) and negative or false when empty (unplugged). These classifications are used to provide a symbolic superstructure which help a viewer to associate the state of the glyph (aspect) with its meaning (term).

The hub is always printed. This provides a reference for the placement of the other elements. Without a hub it is difficult to tell if a single spoke is above or below the center and whether it is an inner or outer spoke. The plug within the hub is a triangle that 'points' to the left. This is intended to show the orientation of a glyph (in case it is viewed upside down). The triangle points to the 'beginning' (the left inner spokes) of a glyph.

More, less, major, minor, active and passive (Yang and Yin) are common principals across the mental, social and physical realms. By tying these binary principals to the classifications described above, we hope to associate a glyph's aspect with an engram of an individual's experience and thereby imbue it with meaning.

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#GUCAC Storage and Transmission Format

GUCAC requires 33 bits to represent a signed index. An IP packet has a 32 bit payload. This leaves us a bit short of a perfect fit.

Encoding an index as two IP packets can be optimized as follows:

The first three chords (0Xff, 1XFF, and 2XFF) are the 'common conversational' area and are intended to be the bulk of indexes entered. This (~17 kiloterm) static vocabulary will be stored on the user's device for efficiency and regionalization reasons. The 'common conversational' terms can be replaced to reflect local languages

To minimize data storage and transmission requirements, the first three chords and the sign bit will be stored as 25 bits of the first word. Use of the sign bit will be explained in the next toot. This will leave seven bits in the first word which will be used as meta-data. This meta-data will provide binary state indicators which include the following states or meanings.

(2 bits, 4 choices)
The next word contains a brand new index.
The next word contains the outer laths.
The next word contains extended formatting information (24 bits are available).
The next word contains the outer laths and extended formatting information.

(5 bits, 32 choices, 9 shown)
The index is preceded by a blank.
The index is followed by a blank.
The index is preceded by a tab.
The index is followed by a tab.
This is the last index in a sentence.
This is the last index on a line.
This is the last index in a paragraph.
This is the last index on a page.
This is the last index in a document.

A second word of storage will not be required unless the outer laths, extended formatting information or both are present. Since tabs and spaces are part of the first word, they will not take up extra space. Multiple tabs and spaces would be specified by the second word.

Moreover, by making formatting information a defined part of the language specification, we can avoid proprietary encoding schemes in index processors and other information display devices.

Ideally, the extended formatting information in the second word would include something such as the generic tags of the eXtensible Markup Language (XML) so that local formatting conventions (such as reading right to left or bottom to top) can be customized on a global scale.

An alternative unsigned storage format could be used for purely positive numbers such as the 128 bit IPv6 address. This format would provide a compact 32 bit number. The use of this format would either be specified by an extended format in a preceding index or by a specific use such as an IPv6 address mentioned above.

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