#yojh

• Without the Copper and the teslatrons, our bodies literally couldn't exist, would fly right apart, smear right out. I've seen it.  This planetoid didn't make it; it was never finished. Consequently, it is no place for humans, really, in the long run. Take the ylobe, for instance. Viewed alone, the ylobe animal-entire is our unconquerable master, here. We're at its mercy, nowadays even inside our antenna blanket. There’s also the space-storms. Our original Earth's universe was nothing like this. I guess it's not there anymore or something.

• I wonder what happened to that other truck we came with? All kinds of gear left on that thing, wherever it is. My parent designed the technology that model was based on.

• the problem I see is that for the zanz we need to operate our lygo-technology, there's not enough yojh in the vlnic cosmos. If you ask me the only important science to be doing right now is coming to some kind of understanding of how and why that is, but there's been wars, and we've lost a lot of our most important minds. We have designers, we have macronauts, but they’re idiots, and we don't have cutting edge maths, we haven’t made any equipment to find out what our neighbors have been up to. We stopped drinking from the communal human pool, as it were.

- Not all hope is lost, but, because of exponentially hyperbolic curve in the yojh/zanz axis, before too long, much more than hope… will be.

• Jim didn't get along with the aliens - those Clarantans that came visiting. I can't blame him. They were rude as hell. But I think they're further along than we are.

• Humanity isn't a morphology anymore. It's a way of translating perception into reality. That method is as much a part of our biological evolution as the appendix or the lymph nodes were to humans of the ancient kind - as useless and expendable and as seemingly innate. We have already changed it, millions of times, probably, but how can we know? Would it even help - to be aware?

• It's one of ape-kind's greatest shames: it built minds, and gave them tasks.

Today, let’s imagine that thinking is like stars, in the universe. Consciousness is now gravity, or plasma. It’s an infinity contained within another infinity (is one of them larger than the other?). It collects, it’s subject to entropy in some ways, but is negentropic in others.

How much motion is involved in consciousness? What’s the smallest amount of motion that could be said to be aware?

Like plasma, consciousness can give rise to more consciousness - it can feed back, go wildfire. It can be seen as being in a closed system created by itself, like a star - in one tempo it’s frozen in stasis; in another it’s fitfully battering against the NOTHING with desperate, churning, pregnant eruption.

At the location of a consciousness, there’s a thing that is the product of its origins and past - but also instantaneously always Eternal. It’s potentially the source of anything. It’s definitely the location of Everything.

Is it an object? The brain? Is it a system within the brain? Is it the output of the system?

Location and perception are distinct as separate conceptual modes only within three dimensions. In more than three dimensions, those words are synonyms, to the observer. In more than four, the observer is, entirely, the thing observed, and it is they.

In more than five, the pasts of a thing are infinite, along with its futures. This reality extends back down toward what we can only see as zeroth, almost-nothingness, where motion occurs. How complex is the motion there! Complex enough to be aware?

The element of scale is situated within consciousness only. Differentiations - fluidity versus viscosity, age versus energy - take on the essence of color, or texture, or lifespan, or emotion, within an infinite consciousness.