cyb/parts/file.md

cyb file
cyb particle entity cyb
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file = particle + data (file). a particle is identity; a file is identity plus bytes. the bytes may be absent on this machine — the file still exists and still links; what is absent is the page. spacetime shows a file page only when a spark can draw the bytes.

address: cyb://file/<hex> when a spark can draw it. no spark → no file page; now stands on cyb://particle/<hex> instead — the black hole: mass without visible body.

not an anatomy organ. a prysm molecule plus a spark surface. the cursor is now; brain and memory only move it.

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cybics/info/file
a particle given a `~` name — the moment content becomes findable. information that exists is a particle; a particle that can be found is a file a file in cyber is a particle that has been assigned a `~` name by a neuron. the particle provides identity through its hash; the name provides…
cyber/file
the thing a particle identifies: data, and its identity. everything is a file — a document, an image, a model, a genome, a neuron's key, an axon's pair of endpoints. the cybergraph is files, linked by cyberlinks that neurons sign and tokens weigh the particle is the file's identity — 32 bytes,…

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