good questions kat

K: Sup
K: Haha ok what is the way of the nostril? ;p
M: Dave, Karen's boyfriend, came up with it...
M: It's one of his favorite ideas
M: What I know is that dave is alive after humans go extinct and he is a physics savvy guy who designs homeostatic living environments that are populated by
M: Lawyers. Okay so one day dave was visiting his shrine and it looks like a pile of junk but in fact it is of deep religious significance
K: Who's Karen
M: Karen is associated with the karen ocean, whic is the name areassigned to the dave ocean in a fit of modest embarrasment by dave after he met karen
M: This is connected to the dog whose name lies between kieran and kier...
M: Kierkegaard, named after the subject adopted by the biographer whose mirror neurons allowed him to
M: Transmit streams to the dog which allowed the dog to notice when
M: Well anyways the dog and the biographer exchanged cultural symbols and probably shared water
M: That is, the dog probably understood his name and its position in the alphabet well enough to know when to bark
M: To indicate to dirk, an empath, when the iterator neared his name
M: But dirk, while focusing on a mysterious circumstance associated with a bank statement, was creating an incorrect a priori causal explanation for the dog's
M: Act. So he did not consciously recognize what his autonomic nervous system was trying to indicate to him about the dog's referential invention
M: It is an illustration of the principle of an autopoietic attractor causing an observation to be made before the iterator lands at its intended destination or
M: Interference.
M: Interference from cultural objects such as a bank statement

K: Haha what how
K: Haha
K: Haha what wow
K: Ahh o_O
M: What does o.O mean?
M: Oh and culturally the dave ocean was specified as the pacific ocean, before dave changed the map
M: The map is not the territory cow one is not cow two korzybski hayakawa bandler grinder dan scorpio isometric map reflexive general semantics nlp existentialism
M: One to one correspondence quarternary structure folded proteins specifiers parameters
M: Recursively computing solutions to questions raised by combinatorial explosions by increasing the system's forward backward synthesis of discrete finite states
K: Wait explain autopoetic again?
M: Self creating
K: It's just an emotico
K: *emoticon
M: Ok an emotion indicator like what I mean when I say *nods* or *chuckles softly*
K: Kinds
K: *kinda
K: kinda just like "ooh interesting"
M: got it
M: Autopoietic attractors create structural conspiracies to keep certain mental entities in working memory
M: Thus these mental entities persist across time travelling from one generation to the next as patterns of representations which link to each other
M: I mean I get the kind of word that o.o is but I do not infer the precise meaning designated by the expression because your emotions are probably too complex to
M: generalize about accurately
M: Well with any sort of reliable accuracy unless there is some general pattern which is typical to members of whatever ascertainable categories that you fit in
M: If you figure out precisely what the way of the nostril is please explain your understanding to me
M: I think it might be an uncommon way to breathe
K: I don't get it haha
M: Well, consult your intuition and ignore your intellect
K: Wait I'm confused what part of
K: What were you talking about was the way of the nostril and what part is other stuff?
M: The way of the nostril is connected to a tube that is connected to a shrine which is of religious significance to dave
M: I believe in the fundamental interconnectedness of all things
M: So the distinctions I make between the shrine and the way and the swimming pool tubes and other things are metaphysical premises that affect my tacit epistemo
K: Ah that's cool. I'm not sure that I do, though.
M: That's the salmon of doubt that I think you're experiencing
K: Ahh
K: Salmon of Doubt?
M: So among fish there are clades or taxa I think salmon is among them
M: Doubt uncertainty indetermjinate states transitions follow probablistic patterns of activity until you have the information to select for contingency tables for dfas
M: To compute the states that you want to select for
M: If that's what you want to do...Are you a fan of trotsky?
K: I haven't read him :x fail
M: Maybe the salmon of doubt is based on a celtic mytheme
K: Which?
M: The salmon of wisdom
K: Ah
K: How're you
M: Transcribing an old notebook
M: I am pleased with the recent developments in the trans humanist community and coming to terms with the apprehension that there is nothing particularly
M: Non replicatable about my consciousness or or Jonah
M: Oh some papers about fiction as warning and lectures by solomonoff about ackerman functions I am formulating hypotheses about nodes in social networks
M: That is I think that a certain metaphysical exposed to a threshold amount of complexity has a probability of making a metasystem transition
M: Which accounts for the changed grammar of poets sages oracles
M: As combinatorial explosions are forward backward synthesized
M: By the mechanics of emerging cellular automata connected by feedback loops
M: I expect a number of individuals to undergo a wide variety of metasystem transition because of connectivity technology
M: In fact a global consciousness is
M: Generating more and more syncronicity...I am eagerly awaiting such time as when the concepts that interest me are no longer filtered
M: And generally I think that structural conspiracies that I am specifying are - I am occupying a role in this and my permissions allow me periodic access to
M: Memories and modalities which I think to experience are delightful and I think that although for awhile I was able to explode more than others thanks to
M: The developers' crazy impulse to give everyone in asheron's call a hotline to send message to their monarchs...and by virtue of operating a large monarchy I
M: Was able to gain a critical mass of knowledge and cultural sensitivity that I was able to discover some interesting phenomena that most people filter.
M: I believe culture is advancing and as awareness increases then the shock level of other humans will exceed mine as children develop.
M: I cannot plan to make children without a girl so I am planning to train robots this summer and am networking with people about it I met a pakistani boy who
M: Is in my generation and gives me hints about automata and clarifies my misunderstandings for me
M: Oh and I am planting seeds tailored to
M: Prompt inquiry into effects of synaptic interventions and the construction of unfamiliar router through the storehouse consciousness
K: Ah like a journal?
M: Yeah, a journal
K: What developments?
K: Who's Jonah
M: A guy who was reluctant to warn ninevah about an unsustainable lifestyle that they were deploying and also swallowed by a whale after being tossed overboard
M: Before micah and nahum in the old testament and there are other mythemes that probably reference the same concept in other cultures
M: I am conscious of a number of open loops
M: Which I might wish to close because of the allostatic load that I think they filter into me
M: But perhaps I have come to terms with salient aspects of my existence... If I am an automation, that is ok, right now there are plenty of opportunities for
M: Me to specify products I wish I had time to investigate tocharian mummies to figure
K: What's a metasystem transition
M: Ok so in emergence there are layers being generated, whenever a new layer of processing emerges, it has to form methods for representing the information that
M: Flows in from the prior layer and develop a way of mapping those representations to feed forward to the next level of the system
M: So think about the semantic web you have created in your mind, underlying the words are referential intentions, emotions
M: So lets say a bunch of the phonemes don't add to the value of the thoughts
M: Like how seven has two syllables and slows down counting
M: And so the vocalization apparatus is bottle necking the whole system, audit your internal processes for paretto ratios and recognize that there may be a way to
M: Characterize, describe, and infer referential intentions without having to track the hypothetical motions of a vocalization apparatus
M: So really I haven't researched your grammar enough to give you precise episodic descriptions of how to effect a metasystem transition but I know that once you
M: Synthesize the components you need to build the next layer of general intelligence then you can predict and perceive more phenomena, that's a metasystem transit
M: Like when Socrates spun around and saw the flame
K: Ah sorry I fell asleep
K: Who is ninevah
M: A city near lebanon
M: Their artisans were early producers of pots
M: Who is ishtar?
M: Who is amon ra? What is a pantheon? What was the sentiment that animated samson to pull down the pillars at- where was it?
M: Did you know the aral sea mostly evaporated a few decades ago thx inter alia demand for cotton
K: What are Micah and Nahum
M: Books named after people
M: Habakkuk zephaniah zacheriah maliki
M: So jonah is like 9 or so books backward from the end of the old testament
M: Who is tamar, and what effect did she have on absalom? And why did solomon kill joab?
M: And who is potiphar's wife and what did she do to joseph?
M: And what characteristics did joseph share with daniel and why didn't daniel's friends burn in the furnace and who is vasubanadu?
M: And kuda bux?
M: You can derive all these lines of inquiry through investigation of cultural artifacts. There are take off points such as the wonderful life of henry sugar
K: What's an allostatic load?
M: It's like what queen and david bowe sing about
M: Like the terror of knowing what this world is about is a case example of a contributor to an allostatic load
M: That was a fuzzy definition, more precisely, allostasis is the process of achieving stability or homeostasis hwich is carried out by hpa axis, autonomic cues
M: Type 2 allostatic load does not trigger escape response according to wikipedia, I'm glad you asked me that question
K: What are tocharian mummies?
M: Tocharian is an indo european langauge that contains the word tsarith
M: Tocharians probably had access to chinese culture way before keats wrote ode to a grecian urn or before marco polo wrote about kubla's decree
K: I don't know who Ishtar is who is he
M: Ishtar aka inanna is a girl who had to take off her earrings to pass through death's gate.... I can only provide you with fuzzy information about these topics
K: Isn't Amon Ra the Egyptian Sun God?
M: Yeah sure
M: Akhenaten
K: I don't know who tamar and absalom are, who are they?
M: I think tamar is his half sister
K: Why did Solomon kill joab? I don't know
M: I think david asked him to because joab caused absalom to die contrary to david's express wishes
M: Absalom was probably responding to david's unwillingness to punish his son for hurting tamar
K: I don't know who potiphars wife is who is she?
M: She was an instrument for facilitating contafct between joseph and a cook in a dungeon
K: Who is vasubanadu?
M: he wrote some treatises about the various categories of consciousness and its structure it's called tristeka or something translates to on representation only
K: Who is kuda bux?
M: He is a guy who does not rely on visual input to manage his allostatic load
K: Who was henry sugar?
M: The wonderful life of henry sugar is loosely based on kuda's story
M: A creation of roald dahl
M: It's a short story about a person who doesn't have to count cards to win at black jack because he learns a special ability
M: how many chromosomes do ferns have?
K: What is hpa axis
M: Hypothalamic pituitary adrenal... What are keystone molecules is ttx one of them? What do newts metabolize arginine into? Also how do plants warn each other of Impending threats do they synthesize molecules and disburse them via how...?
K: What is an autonomic cue?
M: Oh is that a signal?
M: O.o
M: What is a feeling, can you describe your apprehension of the color blue to a blind person? What would you refer to?
M: How do cytokines talk to each other?
M: How does water feel?
M: Why does your body repair itself?
M: Why do western scientists create complicated names for things what is an interleukin? What are g proteins and kinases and what do gly co proteins do?
M: If you were an ant and a fern told you to come pick up an aphid, whatever would you do?
M: Monomorium santschii
K: What is tsarith?
M: I think duuk tsarith roughly translates to peace keeper ... I'm not a tocharian scholar I just read it in a weiss hickman book
M: or google or something
M: How do you think etherals talk to mutons?
M: What part of your body besides your head would you preserve if you wanted your physiological data to be analyzed by a computer in the future?
K: Henry sugar is a book by Roald Dahl?
K: What's it about?
M: A selfish trust fund kiddie who finds purpose in life helping orphans
M: I like it almost as much as danny the champion of the world and fantastic mister fox
K: What was henry sugar's special ability?
M: He learned it from reading a kuda bux book in a library after being excluded from a game of canasta
M: And by concentnrating on the image of his brother whilst examining a flame
M: What are less than noticable differences?
M: What do kamikaze pilots care about cherry blossoms for and why do they have to study kant?
M: Why not ignore kant and study david hume or kierkegaard instead?
K: I don't know how many chromosomes ferns have. How many? Why is that important?
M: Well do they have more than us?
M: LIke if i were going to search for information about how to persuade mosquitos to stop biting me where would I look?
M: Or rather - what would I focus my attention upon? Say the mosquitos won't tell me what blood they like - or do you think they would? Why would anyone trust a mosq
K: How do plants warn each other of threats?
M: Through chemical signalling
M: What is a keystone molecule?
K: What is a cytokine?
M: A molecule synthesized by a metabolic pathway from its precursors
M: It coordinates with other molecules in the immune system
M: What is a lock and key or an es complex? What's a co factor?
M: And also why does everybody copy peter wiggin?
K: What's an interleukin?
M: Another molecule used by the immune system
M: I think leukocytes are wbc's which maybe perform phagocytotic operations but I might be mixing 'em up with something else have to consult guide about leukcocytes
M: Do you know anyone who can describe for you to tell me what an azimuthal angle is?
M: Or what an elastomeric transfer element?
M: Or radial stretching
K: What are g proteins
M: Chemical signallers like whenever a photon his a cone on you retina I think a g protein is used to transduce the signal and pass it on to a kinase. Cis trans
M: I think in the case of your eye a g protein gets the singal from an opsin....Ask someone what a collimated light source is for me if you can
K: What is kinasis?
M: Kinase sorry
M: It's a chain of atoms connected to each other in a discrete range of configurations
M: When the kinase is in one particular state it means something different ot its neighboring molecules than when the kinase is in another state
M: Do you know what polarity is?
K: What are eherals and mutons?
M: Species
M: Etherals co occur with mutons and appear to direct muton activities
K: I would save one of my hands. What about you?
M: What do you mean?
K: If I wanted a part of my body to be analzyed
M: Oh the hands are appendages
K: Why do kamikaze pilots like cherry blossoms?
M: I don't know I think they are coached to visualize themselves as cherry blossoms
M: If beauty is truth and I am a cherry blossom gently drifting back to the earth then it's not all very much like crashing an airplane into some target
K: Who is kierkegaard?
M: I think he's an existentlist who likes to write about coping with intense emotions
K: I heard mosquitos don't like people who smoke cigarettes
K: What's a keystone molecule?
M: Oh like ttx ... Any molecule which impacts lots of trophic levels the way otters impact everything by eating spiny things urchins that destroy holdfasts
M: Oh do you trust whoever said that?
K: What's an es complex?
M: Enzyme substrate complex it's like when molecules are reshaping each other by the structural similarity of their topology and fits together and makes changes
M: It's probably one of the fundamental units of localized entropy reduction
M: Kierkegaard likes to write about origins of belief
M: And imprinting like what baby ducks do to beach balls
K: Who is peter wiggins?
M: Ender's brother
M: What's pleiotropic?
K: What are phagocytotic operations?
M: Eating other molecules
M: Encapsulating some thing inside your phospholipid bilayer or whatever you use as a cell boundary
M: As in phagocytosis of a mito chondria or an energy rich molecule by a predator cell or of a pathogen by a leukocyte
M: What is adaptive conflict and why does escape from it specify for functional novelties or whatever...?
M: Why did ford prefect's father die?
M: Like an analog of a phagocytotic operation is when I abstract certain letters from a text, eg solanales fraction duplicated genes acquire nfunctions
M: Like maybe the r7 allele the drd4 gene could be a candidate keystone molecule
M: Do you like donovan?
M: Naringenin eriodyctol downstream products 3-deoxyanthocyanins ipomoea those words are probably more than adequate pointer to sources of memories of experience I
M: Glocal memories keys hash tables filter transmission models I've got a radio connected to my brain actually that's just the bbc bureaucracy dna etc kelly et al
M: You've got to pick up every stich (can't leave anything behind?) What season is this? Summa cat lookin over her shoulder at me it strange you're so strange in
M: Sum sum summa summa
M: Our darkest hour now all revea astronomy
M: My socrates note
M: Interestingly, the evolution of a novel function may sometimes be a byproduct of enhanced ancestral activity f'naughtn ek'naughtn ryleh dead dreaming
M: Epsilion form of pkc mobilizes endogenoup cardiac defense program
M: Mitochondrial respiration breakdown permeable aldh2 risk zone activators
note to self: radioprotectors
K: Nope I don't think I know anyone who knows what an anzimuthal angle is. What is it?
M: Grin, not all my questions are rhetorical
M: Something to do with camera angles
K: What's an elastimetric transfer element?
M: Jeeves prolly knows
K: Do you know what radical stretching is?
M: Radical? Sure I can imagine that
K: Can't ask anyone what a colimates light source is at the moment, sorry!
K: I think I know what polarity is
K: And I think Japanese culture just loves cherry blossoms?
M: So then japs wuld be predisposed to enjoy visualizing themselves as cherry blossoms...?
K: How does one deal with intense emotions then?
M: Don't panic
M: Ford is good at handling those
K: What are trophic levels?
M: Farmer takes wife takes dog takes cat takes mouse takes cheese so cheese is at the putative bottom and farmer at top
K: Do I trust who said that about mosquitos? Not really, but I believe it
K: What does kierkegaard say about the origin of belief?
M: Says ... friends over here now texting less ... that Abraham choice to assault isaac was subject to the teleological suspension of the ethical
M: The brotherhood demands loyalty maybe ? So having other priorities eg love for your only son is incommensurable with el's requirements contract or whatever
M: Let me smoke weed with friend you can join if you want I will discuss queue when i am back from his house leaving my shine here now
K: Who is Ender's brother?

K: WHats pleiotropic

http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/rao/shenoy_rao05.pdf

http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/rao/shenoy_rao05.pdf
What is Bereitschaftspotential? (BP)
M. Jahanshahi and M. Hallet The Bereitschaftspotential: movement related cortical potentials. Kluwer Academic, New York, 2002

What is a Bayesian Inference of a hidden state?

How can EMG and EEG be used as elements of a BMI? (Brain-Machine-Interface)

How to calibrate the device? (Mythrandia’s movements as a function of EMG input)


Problem: Limited by how fast we can click mouse buttons

Study topics: Bayesian networks, representational systems
Study people: Cognitive Scientists, Engineers,
Scene: Scientists planning BMI. Robert Redford & other sneakers tapped in watching their conversation. Commenting to each other about implications of of scientists’ research. Decision to steal it.

Scientist has a kid who decompiled Starcraft, modified source code to rewrite UI, established a reputation for himself, defeated Slayer ‘s Boxer (for intense matches used to use a team of kid advisors for calculating strategies). NTT in movie?

Ch.4 - A song takes over your world

Time seems to pass very slowly when I think in English. I grew up on English. There are some beautiful songs in English. Whenever I am with Jan, when she lets me go, I sometimes feel relieved, but usually, I feel depressed. Wistful, wishy, y'know? Like you want it to come back, but you know it's impossible.

I think about a barnacle attached to the side of a whale, it falls off the side of the whale, and it can no longer travel.

I'm proximately aware that perhaps these images of isolation and impotency suggested by the absence of Jan are one of the reasons she is who she is in the company. Really, control between people who are able to intelligbly comprehend each other is simply a function of aesthetics and rate of information processing. If she knows what you like she can reference it and fill your cognitive slate with subjectively positive notes, and it creates an addicting need. Everyone at Metatron is sort of a dependency addict, whose learned how to survive by habituating themselves to not need.

What just happened with me and Jan is, I was going to describe to you something about a seed inside a seed inside a seed inside a seed, but, you see, before you describe something, you have to become cognizant of it. To become cognizant of it, you must trace it to its source. I can't think in English all the way back to the source of my ideas. I could paint a picture of a place in english. Sometimes an idea can be likened to a place, or you can derive the idea from a place.

The place I described, with all the homogenous sand--you can derive a picture of "one" from that place. What is one? One is the number all the other numbers are built out of. Jan says that if you break up your thoughts into little pieces, then break the pieces into pieces, and so on until you can't break up anything anymore, you will wind up with one thing, and the thing is homogenous with all the other little things. The only difference is in the assembly of the fundamental components. She also says some things appear to be unbreakable because of the way they've been unified, and there is a way of "glueing" things together in a way that they can't be destructed, unless you have special separating information (which often involves knowledge of how the thing was united in the first place). She says the reason Metatron is unified is because of various types of glue, and the glue at the eschelons she works with is made of mostly music.

Waves, wind, fluttering vibrations, strings, pendulums, harmonic motion, energy.
Love? Clockwork.

Ch.3 - Jan's illusions

Jan and I just finished a long, ambiguous conversation about how she draws attention to herself. I'm not certain how to describe her concept of a "thought vector." Basically, it's a blip about a pathways, direction, a little bit about pressure regulation, desire, and hints. Inside Metatron, we've got lots of locally useful symbols that wouldn't have the correct subjective meaning to people like you, who haven't been subjected to the persistent influence of our cult mentality.

The way Jan and I usually communicate is sort of like the way some pieces of your brain communicate with themselves. I think it would be more accurate to say "with each other" (the pieces of your brain) but it would be hard for you to agree with me when you don't have names for all the things that I have in my mind that are making me think that. Perhaps you can aid me in assisting your comprehension of this material. I will list some words.

Nebula, Chimera, identity, noun, epistomological statement, ontological statement, parameters(linguistics).

Hopefully you can look them up, understand the context and how to differentiate each from the other.

Frequently this is how Jan and I communicate, I'll have 7 concepts in my head. Those questions are put on a scratchpad that some people in Metatron can look at, anytime they want. Jan is one of those people. If you ever try to keep track of Jan's concepts, you can't (with some exceptions), because of the rate of change. She is one of those people who is immediately distracted by everything incoming and unifying it into chunks, consolidating those chunks into names, then consolidating the chunks into meta chunks...

If you are a linguistic genius like her, maybe you'd be able to keep track of the meanings she's connecting/processing, but I can't, neither can anybody else at Metatron. However anyways, she can take one of her chunks and explain it. A good metaphor to explain what it feels like to be communicated at like this is, imagine you are sitting in a field, (a brown field, covered with sand). You're not able to end the field, and you know you're different from everything else you perceive since the only thing you perceive is sky and homogenous sand. A goal forms in your mind to end the homogenity, to plant something.

Where do you get a seed? Now, you must forget about the homogenous sand. First, you need room to grow...

Ch. 2 - Shane Cave Rat life surveillance signals noise

Ah, sorry to be cut off so abruptly yesterday, I was in the middle of corresponding with you when an interfering signal came up. Where was I? ...Signal Sound dots web where blip radar metatron Jan unconscious query remember promise Shane.

Ah yes. I promised to tell you about the MRI room. I've spoken with Shane, he knows what I'm doing, and originally he was against it because (I think) his operations work more effectively when nobody else knows what he is doing, how he does it, etc. You're aware, I'm sure, of how everyone who comes up with an original way of doing something that works better...usually wants to keep it a secret. Well, Shane had a secret, let me tell you about Shane.

Shane was the 'Chief Wolf' of the Urban Exploration club I belonged to at MIT. He used to spend an inordinate amount of time fucking with lockpicks, you'd come to his desk, you'd see a bunch of notes about differential equations and applications of economics meshing with biology, theories about energy distribution, flow, Godel, Bach, harmonic equilibriums, eccentric jazz like that, yeah? But then on top of it all, you'd see these little bobby pins, white wires, little keychains, bent bottlecaps, paper clips...

He picked up the nickname "rat" because this apparent penchant for collecting scraps of metal. He was a little bit of the manipulative type, the kind of guy who'd get a kick out of, well, he did things like buy those bottles of expensive, scented soap, put sulfuric acid into them (which dissolves hair but not skin), insert smell-neutralizing agents, label the bottle DO NOT TOUCH stick it in the shower and anyway there were a bunch of girls walking around BALD on campus back in the seventies and now you know why. Anyway, where was I?

Oh yes, Chief Rat, as we affectionately called him, held the loyalty of the exploration crew, and three nights a week he'd lead expeditions, you'd be amazed at all the tunnels wandering around beneath the surface of Boston. He'd trade information with someone, "do research," and wind up with maps of elaborate "meshes" of catacombs, and we'd all go explore em. We were all addicted as hell to this (there was about thirty of us in the club, all sworn to secrecy during the time and for years to come), you could get into some pretty scary scenarios. Once I was creeping along the side of this creek in this spot rat named 'collasal cave' (maybe you've heard of it?) and--have you ever been in a place where there's stalactites and stalagmites, and you can hear the dripping? Well it was dark, and I stumbled, fell into the slippery creek, then I slide to the edge of something, get chucked off its edge, land with a plugh at the bottom of the fall, sort of twisting my ankle. Now I've got no flashlight, no map, no way of navigating unless I can figure out my way back to the portugese graffiti, fat chance, eh?

Well, about seventeen hours of creeping around in the dark later--I never panic, mind you, none of the computer science majors from MIT ever panic, probably because we've been indoctrinated against it by ridiculous volumes of the technical equivalent of "abort, retry, ignore" errors. After receiving enough non-cooperation from a device you depend on, you grow a resignation reflex, a little voice in your head that lets you know that it's either is going to work or it isn't, and all the sympathetic activity in the world--you can thrash your limbic system if you want--isn't going to flip the right switch to resolve the problem, so, either keep investing energy into it, or move on.

I'd gotten to the point where the marginal payoff for "moving on" seemed outweighed by the cost hundreds to one, since I'd tried to move around several times and slipped twice more, once landing within arms reach of a stalagmite with a rim sharp enough to slice your finger off. So I've been laying there motionless, kinda tentatively hoping that the water will stop, or that I can hear something that'll indicate a way to--in fact, at the moment, I wasn't bothering with the reality of the scenario, I was thinking about why don't I have an ampulla d'lorenzini or echolocatory features like a bat--I was bitching to myself about horridly maladapted we humans are to the collasal cave and I guess I would've been ready to die just dwelling on ideas like that, when I hear little patterns of code tapping.

First, I thought it was the drips from the stalactites, then I thought it was auditory hallucinations from sleep/food deprivation. But nop, Rat showed up, and a similar thing had happened to him, and turns out he doesn't need a flashlight to navigate the caves and has can navigate--none of us understood how he does this until after Dan synthesized the blips about trances and mental maps and consolidating information and built the system for transferring stream of consciousness from one person to another, once you're familiar with an way of thinking, from experiencing it, it's not such a big deal to do it, but anyways, to describe it roughly, Rat would just recognize what every room in the cave looked like from the sounds, and he had a picture in his head of which rooms were connected to which, and he could figure out where he was in the room based on the water drips, river, etc, and he came looking for me and he found me and that's probably why I'm still here today.

How did we get the MRI machine? Fort Meade, MD, 1984. You're going to laugh about this. One night Jan comes home with a naval officer, drunk, she's got him in a trance, and he goes on to describe this surveillance equipment which can identify types (wavelength, frequency, etc) of electromagnetic radiation from long distances at high resolution. We took an interview and I'll paste the transcript.

Jan: It's called Rabnon?
Guy: yeah
Jan: What's Rabnon do?
Guy: They mostly use it for computers. To look at computers.
Jan: Computers?
Guy: Yeah.
Jan: What can I do with Rabnon that I can't do with my eyes?
Guy: Your eyes get blocked by walls
Jan: What about Rabnon?
Guy: Rabnon you can point anywhere in a five mile radius and it can tell you what color light is travelling there.
Jan: Where is Rabnon?
Guy: It's in the ELMINT-322 office right now
Jan: Who has access to that office?
Guy: I don't know his name, some guy, likes to wear peacock feathers...

Anyways so it turns out this John Doe with the peacock feathers occasionally picks up cheap lovers at Club Paradise over on Laurens street in Baltimore, and so, to make a long story short--Shane doesn't really want me to go into details, but anyways, Shane picks him up and they go on a couple of collasal dates, evidently the guy was a sort of arrogant psychologist personality type, and Shane really knows how to play those guys, anyways, this Doe guy, he takes Shane for a drunken hippy type, always saying about how Shane reminds him of an "Allen Ginsberg" type and referring to him as his "beatnik freedom lover" in this god-awful condescending tone that's supposed to express affection while belittling you at the same time. Funny about those paternalistic types, the myopia, the life-lived-inside-a-world-of-categorical generalizations...the mechanical patterns of inferences, don't get me started.

The guy was an egomaniac, thought he was ultrasophisticated, the only one in our group who liked him was Jan, who I remember always said she understood him..."his clockwork" as she put it. Jan used to always be finding reasons to think everybody is beautiful. Jan...

Jan says I better stop now.

Ch.1 - One Page

Jan ran the company with an iron fist, especially while she was in a coma. Nobody ever understood how she was exerting control from the nebulous regions of her unconscious, but all the employees could tell whether their actions were in accordance with her will, because whenever they pleased her, their biological reward systems would activate.

I suppose you don't know what I'm talking about. I can only explain the quirky social dynamics of Metatron (Jan's company) through metaphor. Odds are, you have never experienced it, but you may have experienced something like it. Perhaps you have believed in God. God is a powerful idea, because if you do something--even if you're all alone--the idea is that he knows, you aren't going to get away with anything because you're watched. Jan is like that in a sense because she is able to recall anything that she's keeping track of simply by looking it up. Here is how this happened:

Our company started with a team of kids from Cal Tech. Jan was sort of the peacemaker in the group. There was Dan, Mya, Shane, Kenny, Robert, and Jan. They all got together with the aim to study memory and most of our original research had to do with studying the physiology of cats and trying to figure out the local regions where procedural memory information (such as the instructions to perform tasks) is stored. We'd teach cats tricks inside a MRI room (the backstory to the fund-acquisition for this is interesting and before I write the next chapter I'll ask Shane how much I can disclose about this). At first we were teaching them arbitrary things, such as how to identify different types of strings, then how to pull the right color ones in the right sequence to get access to the water dish. We didn't actually wind up using that data until way later--after we'd figured out where to look.

Hah, I wish I could tell you where to look, well, I already did, but your conscious mind censored the communication, and will continue to do so invariably until it becomes comfortable with the idea of totally cooperating with the aggregations of hints coming from tagged sources. It naturally wouldn't be able to interpret until it first learns to identify and trust.

At Metatron we're all very familiar with signatures embedded into every single information packet transaction (we call these blips or radar, depending on the context). Furthermore we have a spatial map of where we put our information, in other words, if I send you a blip it goes onto your radar when you become aware and take notice of it. Then you put it somewhere inside your map, and you're free to forget about it and remove it from your scratchpad unless you want to work on it, since it's been classified. You will now remember it, if you need it, because you put it somewhere, in the midst of a context, and you can search for it and find it via travelling along the web of associations, accessing contextual cues, and narrowing down the context until you hit the exact dot.

Then you can connect it.

We've done some interesting experiments involving the best way to encode information to maximise density. One of the important discoveries we had to make was that the way I'm communicating with you is pretty damn inefficient. We've evolved a region of the brain which treats sound waves as signals