What is a Vibrance?
An Emotion Encoded in Time

A vibrance is an emotion encoded in time, defined as quantifiable information that triggers an event (a light radiation) produced at a precise moment marked by Unix time.
For example, anger can be encoded by throwing a cobblestone into a pond. This poetic act generates Anger information, which is encoded in binary and integrated into a vibrance.
This vibrance is a trigger, an instruction. It is stored in the Cell-IOn machine, an intelligent system designed to decode emotions. Cell-IOn decodes the vibrance by emitting an electromagnetic wave (via its bulbs) radiating the emotion’s information.

Explanation of Functionality: From Emotion to Information in a Vibrance

A vibrance is an instruction for the Cell-IOn machine or any other machine, which decodes a poetic emotion produced at a precise moment and encoded into quantifiable information, stored and made accessible for future use. This process, orchestrated by Néo Valen, Délesteur’s poetic system, relies on a series of methodical steps where the emotion becomes tangible data. Here’s how it works, with a particular focus on the transition from emotion to information.

1. Emotion Production

The process begins with the generation of a specific poetic emotion, triggered by a poetic action performed at an exact moment, measured in Unix time (e.g., 1747150800, corresponding to 5:23 PM on April 15, 2025). Each emotion is produced by a dedicated poetic system—among about thirty, such as the Anger System, Health System, or Spirituality System—designed to create a precise emotion.

• Example: Anger System
  A performance involves throwing a cobblestone into a pond. The physical act—the stone hitting the water, the splashes, the sound—generates an emotional experience: a sensation of Anger, intense and liberating. This moment is precisely marked (e.g., Unix time 1747150800).
• Example: Spirituality System
  To produce a Spirituality Vibrance (defined as intelligence, humor, wit, conversational talent), a prayer is generated and recited by artificial intelligence. This prayer, a unique text, embodies the emotion at a given moment, recorded in Unix time.

At this stage, the emotion is a subjective experience: a feeling, an intensity, tied to the performed act. It is not yet quantifiable, but it exists in the Délesteur’s mind and the performance environment.

2. Transition from Emotion to Information

The codification of the emotion into information is the key step where the subjective experience becomes objective data, capable of being stored and manipulated. Here’s how it happens:

• Event Capture:
  The emotion is associated with a specific event—the action that produced it. This event is described as contextual information:
  • For Anger: “A cobblestone is thrown into a pond at 5:23 PM on April 15, 2025, producing splashes and a distinct sound.”
  • For Spirituality: “A prayer is recited by an AI at 9:12 AM on May 20, 2025, containing a 142-word text.”
    This description includes measurable details: the time (Unix time), location, nature of the action, and its observable effects.
• Codification:
  The contextual information is translated into binary code, a numerical sequence (0s and 1s) representing the event and its associated emotion. For example:
  • The information “cobblestone thrown, splashes, Anger” is converted into a unique binary string (e.g., 01001101…), encapsulating the time, location, and emotional metadata.
  • For Spirituality, the AI prayer text (each word, intonation) is digitized into binary, with Unix time as the identification key.
    This process is not a literal physical measurement (e.g., brainwave frequency) but a digital abstraction: the emotion is reduced to coded information, like a digital fingerprint of the moment.
• Integration into the Vibrance:
  This binary information becomes the core of the vibrance, a digital entity containing the essence of the emotion. The vibrance is thus a data structure, marked by its production Unix time, preserving the emotional information in a stable, portable form.

3. Storage in Cell-IOn

The vibrance is integrated into Cell-IOn, a conceptual machine designed as a storage and processing system. Cell-IOn acts as an emotional data bank, where each vibrance is permanently stored:

• Structure: Each vibrance is stored in binary form, indexed by its Unix time (e.g., 1747150800 for Anger).
• Continuous Vibration: To maintain the integrity of vibrances, Cell-IOn “activates” them by digitally vibrating them—an analog process where binary data is read and kept in active memory, ready for use.
• Example: The Anger Vibrance, encoded as a binary sequence, is stored in Cell-IOn, where it “vibrates” as a digital frequency, waiting to be triggered.

4. Activation by Cell-IOn

When a vibrance is requested (via a click or query), Cell-IOn reads its binary code to decode the emotional information:

• Reading: The system decodes the binary sequence, retrieving the original information (e.g., “cobblestone thrown, Anger”).
• Illumination: Cell-IOn uses bulbs—symbolic light devices—to translate this information into a visible signal. Each bulb lights up in a specific pattern, corresponding to the emotion’s coded message.
• Electromagnetic Wave: The activation of the bulbs generates a low-intensity electromagnetic wave, an energetic pulse that carries the emotional information into the environment. This wave is not measurable like a standard radio frequency but represents the diffusion of the emotion into the universe, making it accessible.

5. Result: A Tangible Emotion

The emission of the electromagnetic wave by Cell-IOn makes the emotion tangible:

• For the User: The vibrance becomes a felt experience, as if the original emotion (Anger, Sleep) were relived. For example, a Sleep Vibrance may evoke a sense of rest without sleeping.
• Storage: Each vibrance remains available in Cell-IOn, like a universal raw material, usable at any time. It can be integrated into emochains (connected paintings on emochain.art), capsules (capsule.arseneca.com), or phygital objects (phygital.arseneca.com), extending its existence.

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Concrete Example: Anger Vibrance

1. Production: At 5:23 PM on April 15, 2025 (Unix: 1747150800), I throw a cobblestone into a pond in Paris. The emotion of Anger emerges—splashes, tension, raw sound.
2. Information: The event is described: “Cobblestone thrown into a pond, 500 ml of water displaced, 80 dB sound, Anger.”
3. Codification: This description is translated into a binary sequence (e.g., 01001101…), including Unix time and metadata.
4. Vibrance: The sequence becomes a vibrance, a digital unit containing the information of Anger.
5. Storage: The vibrance is sent to Cell-IOn, where it is stored and kept active.
6. Activation: When a user clicks, Cell-IOn reads the binary, lights a bulb in red (Anger pattern), and emits an electromagnetic wave.
7. Result: The user feels a pulse of Anger, as if the cobblestone were thrown again. The vibrance remains stored for future use.

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Scientific Analysis

• Emotion → Information:
  • The emotion is a subjective experience (feeling of Anger).
  • It is translated into objective information through the event description (cobblestone, pond, sound).
  • The binary codification transforms this information into digital data, like a compressed file containing the emotion’s essence.
• Cell-IOn:
  • Acts as an emotional server, storing vibrances in binary.
  • The “vibration” is a metaphor for active data maintenance (continuous reading).
  • The bulbs are output interfaces, converting binary into a light signal.
• Electromagnetic Wave:
  • Represents the transmission of information into the environment, a symbolic vector (not precisely measurable) that makes the emotion accessible.
  • Comparable to radio broadcasting, but poetic: the wave carries the emotion without consuming it.