It's Phainon constantly..."refining" himself...yeah...

By the way for those curious, self-iteration is exactly what occurs when a loop like the Recurrence is applied to an electrical signal/process like Phainon

Same for those interleaved sequences/subsequences/projections/"time slices" of Phainon that interact the way they do within the sandbox

That's literally Phainon being described as...refining himself (through those interleaved sequences/lifetimes, with each new cycle over time and everything accumulating).

it's quite awful

Like I've explained before, it describes a strictly sequential, step-by-step progression within a single thread or process (nothing is truly simultaneous internally, including Phainon's lifetimes, that's an illusion given by the sandbox simulation that allows for their interaction)

Her "death" ironically acts as a failsafe for her though, it preserves her from being irreparably damaged and "broken" as a being

Tribios is trying to submit too many commands which actually aren't parallel internally, nothing is underneath for Amphoreus due to following basic causality, through a single thread of execution. Too many things in queue, which brings more and more damage over time, and doesn't end well

Speaking of which, that's also the reason Tribios started "collapsing" in Recurrence 33.xxx.337: "It submitted multiple internal commands to create new coordinate pathways, causing its multi-track calculations to gradually become paralyzed. It later stopped responding."

It's done consecutively and never in parallel even though they appear to act at the same time Inside the simulation. It's a different case but reminiscent of Phainon's own situation when it comes to how it appears visually inside the sandbox, but is different internally

Her "death" ironically acts as a failsafe for her though, it preserves her from being irreparably damaged and "broken" as a being

Tribios is trying to submit too many commands which actually aren't parallel internally, nothing is underneath for Amphoreus due to following basic causality, through a single thread of execution. Too many things in queue, which brings more and more damage over time, and doesn't end well

Speaking of which, that's also the reason Tribios started "collapsing" in Recurrence 33.xxx.337: "It submitted multiple internal commands to create new coordinate pathways, causing its multi-track calculations to gradually become paralyzed. It later stopped responding."

It's done consecutively and never in parallel even though they appear to act at the same time Inside the simulation. It's a different case but reminiscent of Phainon's own situation when it comes to how it appears visually inside the sandbox, but is different internally

Since everything is serialized, it goes into queue, and when there are too many things in queue...

Also Tribios "collapsed" in 337 because she was trying to submit multiple commands through her "interfaces" (fragments) way too fast

Amphoreus and the scepter are NOT built to run things in "parallel", everything underneath is single threaded and one step at a time, following basic causality

If you're curious, his dialogue about causality takes place in the "chronocognitive anchor" memory bubble, that unlocks after 3.3

Amphoreus following and being bound to inviolable basic causality on the data and system level is the reason why the anchor works and protect the owner

Although it kinda makes me laugh that Screwllum's comment is really important, but if you're not paying attention at the start of 3.4 you might miss the comment entirely

Same for his dialogue about causality, although other dialogues in the story refer to this principle and the passage of time