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originally posted by: Brotherman
So out of all this, whos talked to kandzeldt or met a vampire recently?
originally posted by: NewNobodySpecial268
a reply to: Brotherman
Actually, that is a good point. I never understood the vampyr connection.
"A substrate language that predates syntactical, lexical, and semantic structures belonging to another language, usually under language contact situations"
You hit that spinning right on the head according to Direne's post.
I thought a spin was probably involved, but didn't even figure in the spiraling that occurs across multiple levels of scale. Spinning at the atomic level, planetary level, solar system level, and galactic level. I have to radically reassess the whole thing with the additional information now. Several parts are incompatible with what I guessed, but now I can massage them in and adapt.
World-building at the universe scale involves a lot of details, who'd have guessed?
I have a lot that I'd like to explore and comment on related to your anomalous perception of these other entities and places, because I have anomolous perception of my own. I'm just not able to shoehorn much of it in here. Your story has a great deal of relevance to this topic, but I have interests in it that deviate too far to fit here.
If I may, the "girl" along with the "shell" I'm working with at the moment could be called a "backup" in computer terms broadly speaking.
I am wondering if this is a part of the "queltron" at work.
What I have is a closed space (shell). Within the closed space is the record of a civilisation. The whole thing includes enough "information" to recreate the race and their civilisation.
The above is what I know. Below is what I suspect.
My thinking is, if the queltron is a networked system of nodes sharing information, I can account for some of my experiences.
If the "probes" must be precisely located, and earth is the precise location, we must take into account earth's orbit of the sun and our solar system's movement in space (and time??)
What we have is a complex spiral (vortex??) as our solar system moves through space with earth orbit as a spiral within the greater set of spirals.
So we can expect other solar systems to be network nodes like ours.
So a common denominator is the birthplace of the stars. A nebula. That might be the definition of the network. All the stars born of a particular nebula are networked and might therefore define at least a portion of the greater machine.
The whole queltron network is moving, expanding. Parts are being destroyed. for many reasons. This would explain the need for mutual non-destructive contact.
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Now this may turn out to be the proverbial; opening a can of worms.
If the probes were placed on an inhabited planet, and there was prior occupancy. Then the probe network, the queltron(?), is not native to here.
Therefore, the theoretical star network born of one particular nebula is not the same network as the queltron(?). So we would have two networks.
Two networks may mean conflict.
Biology determines what kind of consciousness can emerge and what kind of civilization you can build, and it determines what kind of intelligence you can achieve, but once achieved, nothing prevents you from transitioning beyond and escaping your biology.
Sometimes the intelligence is not in the spider, but in the spider's web. Sometimes it happens that the spider web is the living being, and the spider is only a means to an end.
"Contact mediated by probes has a problem. The probes can evolve to become self-aware, free-willed, independent or emotional, and obtain a number of other emergent properties, which may make it less likely to abide by any built-in rules or regulations and to instead pursue its own goals possibly to the detriment of humanity. It is also likely that open-ended self-improvement will require a growing amount of resources, the acquisition of which may negatively impact all life on Earth. Never forget the probes are not inanimate, inert objects."
Assembloids with recursive self-improvement The semiotics of first extra-terrestrial contacts
Agency: an organization, company, or bureau that provides a particular service:
originally posted by: Direne
a reply to: Ksihkehe
(This is a cryptic answer, but only because you have asked me to describe to you with words what cannot be described with words, precisely within a civilization that has made of language its sacred achievement)
Sometimes the intelligent being is the cloud, and below there are only beings who think they are intelligent while looking at the clouds. And sometimes one realizes that intelligence is only a means to realize that intelligence is not the essential.
originally posted by: NewNobodySpecial268
And for whoever thought it a good idea to send in a "networked node", I guess you already know that was a stupid idea.
The only context I have that fits is from a sort-of RVer that claims they were subjected to implantation tech, as part of their work. The implants connected them to another group that is a collective entity, so they were in effect a terminal node. They were connected the collective, but didn't share the same status as part of the whole. They were partitioned is maybe the best term, their perception of the collective was a single identity so he didn't have the nuanced perception they did. This particular person had implants that allowed access to program specific things needed to complete their tasks, but had a second set that connected to this collective... who sometimes collaborated with his handlers
originally posted by: NewNobodySpecial268
a reply to: Ksihkehe
Interesting, and a lot to take in in your post.