The machine can restore a prior state. The body archives every deployment. A scar is both incident report and permanent branch.
Wearables promise to make this system legible: sleep reduced to stages, exertion to zones, unease to a change in resting pulse. The translation is useful. It is not the territory. A measurement can direct attention without exhausting meaning.
Humans have always instrumented themselves with mirrors, calendars and stories. The new sensors are more continuous, not more final. They enlarge the record while leaving interpretation where it has always been: uncomfortably close to the person being measured.
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