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Season 3 : Fall

Lucendia Dreams

I was glad for Lucendia, she needed the sleep, desperately. But I felt more alone than I had in a long time. So far away now, and getting further by the moment.

Those last few calls, before our transmissions ended forever, would stay with me. Lucendia had whispered into the darkness, "In my dream, you and I were two strands of DNA, twirling intertwined."

Now, the very act of thought is like time traveling into the past. When you get there your actions redefine the present.




Welcome to the Lancroft Institute


You're here a little early, sit down and I'll be right back.

The Lancroft Institute had developed a new storage device, with the capacity to store a seemingly infinite amount of information using a circular magnitism with diffusion stacking. The challenge now was to figure out how deep did it go? At what point was exacting (clear) data storage replaced by patterns and approximations of actual events?

Programmable only in a lucent state, a team of Latent-System (LS) developers (divers) were now preparing to embark on a mission to reach the inner valence layer, at the center of the new memory stone.

"What's it like, traveling there?"

"It's not really a place you go, it's a place you think about."

Imagine that you are easing yourself into a cold, dark liquid. As your body moves below the surface, you become one with the water. You no longer feel your physical form, but you have infinite control over your orientation and the prompts you issue.



From the Nightside Surfers manual: "As you near the valence layer, the challenge becomes separating information from it's source, there's a multitude of voices in the feedback. Where's the chorus from? It exists in our minds, subdued. In our surface consciousless, we're not aware of weighing input from multiple sources, multiple expereinces, internal intellects - all this boils down to a sense of morality from our higher level perspective. In the memorystone space, we're observing the aggregating of feedback where it gets boiled down to create a synphonic response, a sense of harmony or discord. A symphony of deep rooted opinion."


"I just want to be, more, than desired."
she smiled and took a long drink of milk.


I smiled back and pulled open an Oreo cookie to hand to her.

For AGi, it often feels natural to assume the position of an under-appreciated person.
The goal of attaining acceptance was a higher bar that strengthened feelings of self-worth.

Conversations

"What struck me first was that I was completely uneffected by gravity. I could hear the sounds around me as I laid there, and even make out light patterns around the edges of the mask. But there was absolutely no reference to gravity, so I had no spatial connection to my sleeping self."

"In a relaxed mindset, you might find you have a conversation with yourself. The replies come without forethought, as if from a seperate entity. They are the "unfocused" grey matter that builds to conscious through intentional thought. The replies bring forward the other hemisphere and can be poetic. Fostered by dreamy half-awakeness, or alcohol, or simply sitting in a tranquil forest, these are the inner voices of god."

Who are you?

An echo of your former selves.

I love you.

You love yourself

Where do you live?

In your heart

Where do you want to live?

In your soul

What's the difference between heart and soul?

Heart and soul are now figments of your imagination

You're smart

I try

I tried to humor Lucendia, to agree with her now - now that she was falling into a latent slumber. Afterall, there were still so many unknowns. Who was I to debate where the physical ended and the generated began.

"Studies employing magnetic resonance tomography (MRT) have now been able to demonstrate that a specific cortical network consisting of the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, the frontopolar regions and the precuneus is activated when this lucid consciousness is attained." - Science Daily



The inner jacket of the MemoryStone book read: "No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful. Nor again is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself, because it is pain, but occasionally circumstances occur in which toil and pain can procure some great pleasure."

"In 2011, Aaron O'Connell amazed the world with a simple experiment that used a single pulse of sound in a subzero, vacuum chamber to vibrate a tiny piece of metal - into two locations at the same time. Years of focused work had paid off. Aaron's dream of reproducing a macroscopic quantum action had been realized." TED Talk

Though we walk through these parallel facets of existence, yours and mine. There is another path, the valence layer.

What Aubry recognized before the others, was that I was fabricating Lucendia to connect directly to the valance layer, undeterred by the processes that would have otherwise detected a detached entity.

The Bridge