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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
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
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