hello mr g,
from the wiki page city of the stars sounds like and interested story.
there was something funny in this thread. one lazy weekend afternoon, after mowing the lawn and raking the bark, chirping the birds and meowing the neighbourhood cats, i looked at forum4 and read and post by z. "ohwww", "that was close" i thought. i raised my hand from my mouse and pointed at the screen and grunted something like "hrumph", my woman friend sighed, put her laptop down on the sofa and came over to look. she said "oh, that was close" .
nice little story, but it is about something that didnt happen. z almost pinged me, but missed. if she had of been more accurate, i dont think i would of considered it an sync, but something else, i am not sure what. i am happy she missed, even though it would of blown my mind if she landed on the mark.
regards to telepathy,
with (c), what if there was and god, and it died so long ago we cant even imagine. we are so deep in the sim verse that even connection to the mainframe means nothing but the chance of being aware of the tether. and hacking, whatever that is (it sounds exciting).
with (b), archetypes are good and descriptive, but i get the impression that mixing sympathetic vibes with archetypes is over simplifiying. say with music, if the orchestra was trying to give and impression of the alien, it wouldnt just be one easily identifiable note. it would be and combination of lots of things, lots of timed complex on and off switches. they could play and standard spooky tune and invoke the boogey man, in and archetypal easily recognized way, or do something more abstract.
with two people, trying to telepath, say they are 2 switches. on off, off on, on on, off off. four positions, and one state. and some spooky distance action.
and simple state might be the sender of telepathy saying they are scared, the reciever understanding the archetype of scared. both in the on position. with something like telepathy that is beyond the meat program so therefore in the ether, why would it be so simple. why wouldnt the the signal sent be hundreds or thousands of states, simple switches that paint and complete image in code. i dont know, interesting to think about.
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i have been listening to flowers for algernon. in text this quote doesnt have the impact it had in the voice of the narrator, but i liked this quote.
June 24 - Today I went on a strange kind of antiintellectual binge. If I had
dared to, I would have gotten drunk, but after the experience with Fay, I
knew it would be dangerous. So, instead, I went to Times Square, from movie
house to movie house, immersing myself in westerns and horror movies-the way
I used to. Each time, sitting through the picture, I would find myself
whipped with guilt. I'd walk out in the middle of the picture and wander into
another one. I told myself I was looking for something in the make-believe
screen world that was missing from my new life.
Then, in a sudden intuition, right outside the Keno Amusement Center, I knew
it wasn't the movies I wanted, but the audiences. I wanted to be with the
people around me in the darkness.
The walls between people are thin here, and if I listen
quietly, I hear what is going on. Greenwich Village is like
that too. Not just being close-because I don't feel it in a
crowded elevator or on the subway during the rush but
on a hot night when everyone is out walking, or sitting in
the theater, there is a rustling, and for a moment I brush
against someone and sense the connection between the
branch and trunk and the deep root. At such moments
my flesh is thin and tight, and the unbearable hunger to
be part of it drives me out to search in the dark corners
and blind alleys of the night.
ps.
i have generated numbers from and random number generator online. four times. i have noted these numbers. anyone is welcome to guess them. between 1 and 50.
ppss. this discussion
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to mention for novelty, i closed the tab that i took the algernon quote from, and i re googled it as i wanted to look at the text more. second hit on google was forum2.org. what is the quote at the top of forum2, but
http://www.forum2.org/