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's watchmaking parable about (a lousy artisan) and (an industrial manufacturer) is missing the third watchmaker, , that, after many years of trying, has found a way for the watches to build themselves.

Like , is also an because the watches are built from scratch using raw materials, rather than being assembled from prefabricated modular components.

Despite being blind, Aeon is a much better artisan, because these watches, besides (self)building themselves, are all in working order right from inception, and have the ability to preserve their best, *stable intermediate forms*.

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