Stellordnung 0b "guarantees that its order which is merely formal does not become a hindrance but adapts to the conceptual development" (2:50), and offers the opportunity for "a kind of secondary memory" (2:43) to arise in "a number of years" (3:6) of "extensive work with this technique". (2:43) 0b2a

The "sensitive" (3:12) second memory that "gets its own life, independent of its author" (2:45) mimics human memory that "does not have a thoroughly constructed order of its entirety" and a "linear structure like a book" (2:44).

⁴³As a result of extensive work with this technique a kind of secondary memory will arise, an alter ego with who we can constantly communicate. ⁴⁴It proves to be similar to our own memory in that it does not have a thoroughly constructed order of its entirety, not hierarchy, and most certainly no linear structure like a book. ⁴⁵Just because of this, it gets its own life, independent of its author. ⁴⁶The entirety of these notes can only be described as a disorder, but at the very least it is a disorder with non-arbitrary internal structure. ⁴⁷Some things will get lost (versickern), some notes we will never see again. ⁴⁸On the other hand, there will be preferred centers, formation of lumps and regions with which we will work more often than with others. ⁴⁹There will be complexes of ideas that are conceived at large, but which will never be completed; there will be incidental ideas which started as links from secondary passages and which are continuously enriched and expand so that they will tend increasingly to dominate system. ⁵⁰To sum up: this technique guarantees that its order which is merely formal does not become a hindrance but adapts to the conceptual development.

-- Luhmann1992 Section II

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