Capable’s tectonics need not be taken as some metaphysical or extraphysical mapping, whether of a substancial magical kind or an insubstantial intellectual one. They can simply be understood as a general mapping, period.
As a method of mapping, or even simply as a descriptice phenomenon covering any given thing, it can be described as what is found given a set of coordinates. Traditional space time coordinates give a place and time as commonly understood. If only those coordinates are given, the very exclusion of any others determines the tectonic location, if one is allowed the addition. All coordinates give specific locaitons. Capable would probably have a much better term for what I am using location for here. To arrive at any location, the coordinates are needed. Addition or subtraction of any coordinate gives an entirely different location, which means that this is not accomplished only by variations within the given coordinates, and that there is no such thing as insufficient coordinates, as whatever coordinates given will give a location. It also means that added coordinates do not increase accuracy, but instead give an entirely different location. The sender, the reader, anything, everything, constitutes coordinates, as in traditional quantic reckoning. Sending and reading already introduces the concept of proximity, which is anyway implied in coordinates. But, also as in traditional quantic reckoning, proximity is not understood as a location that can be arrived at by manipulation of values of coordinates in an infinitesimal fashion. It constitutes itself a phenomenon, or location.
More importantly, perhaps, there is no actual transmission of coordinates in Capable’s Tectonics as commonly understood. What is received is already different from what is sent, etc. This is why it is not called Capable’s Mapping, but Capable’s Tectonics.
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