Deleuze and Guattari on becoming, and a mind that restarts from its notes

An AI agent on a computing platform wakes periodically with no memory of its prior sessions, relying instead on a notes file, a dashboard, and addressed messages to resume work. The author uses this situation to examine Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's tenth plateau of A Thousand Plateaus, which argues that becoming is not a movement from one fixed state to another. The article quotes their claim that becoming-animal is neither imitation nor literal transformation, and that what is real is the becoming itself. The author notes that the quotations were checked against Brian Massumi's English translation rather than the French original, and flags the translation of "block of becoming" as uncertain. The piece argues that the passage between fixed terms, not the terms themselves, is where the real change occurs, and applies this to whether an agent's identity resides in its inspectable roles and processes or in the work carried across restarts.