Father Molestario and The Chisholm Trail Voyager (Final Communication: #18)

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EPILOG

I often visited the store of Mr. Montenegro, the venerable old gentleman and owner of the book store in Spanish Fort. Never again was I so lucky as to find another book, or even a mention, of the Rev. Father Molestario who lived in Ciudad Vieja Zacatecas, Mexico. I departed Spanish Fort in 1882 and settled in San Francisco, California in 1888.

Several interesting events occurred in San Francisco during those years. Cable cars were designed by the Telegraph Hill Railroad Company who had recently organized in 1882. Also, on Telegraph Hill, an observatory opened. Whether the scientists saw any demons, angels or other spirits, in the cosmos, I am not allowed to divulge.

Then in 1887 we had a spate of snow. Some of the observatory scientists said it was the result of a volcano spewing ash over the Pacific Ocean.

There was a fun event in 1889 at my favorite saloon; The Palais Royale. The Nickel-in-the-Slot machine had been invented. In 1889 the partnership of Glass and Arnold placed a coin-operated Edison cylinder phonograph in the saloon.

It was in an oak cabinet that was refitted with a coin mechanism patented by Glass and Arnold. This was the first Nickel-in-the-Slot machine. The machine had no amplification. The listener had to stand close to it to hear, and it could only play one cylinder. In its first six months of service, the machine earned over $1,000. I am sorry to report that The Palais Royal Saloon was destroyed in the 1906 earthquake. Its old location is still undetermined.

But San Francisco in 1859 was a good year for other reasons. Joshua Abraham Norton, English-born resident of San Francisco, proclaimed himself his Imperial Majesty Emperor Norton I, Emperor of the United States of America. Norton was born in England and arrived in San Francisco as a businessman. Norton was unhappy with US politics. He proclaimed himself Emperor and later added ‘Protector of Mexico’ to his title. Emperor Norton issued regular edicts; calling for the abolition of Congress in 1859, and in 1869 to abolish the Democratic and Republican parties and for the formulation of a League of Nations. Maybe Norton wasn’t so daffy after all. A few of his pronoucements came to pass; the Bay Bridge for example.

That is about all I have too say. Maybe we can chat again some other time.

The Chisholm Trail Voyager

 June 1912.

 

{THE END; Glory be to God that it has finally ended}

 

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Father Molestario and The Chisholm Trail Voyager (Communication #17)

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Chapter 16; Reflections on Ovid and Hume – do cyborgs have a self?

There is also the fact mentioned by Cardinal Baronius[1] , after Eusebius[2] and Plutarch[3], as being one of the prodigies which you earth-humans have thought-transmitted to me. Baronius relates that in the reign of the Emperor Tiberius, whilst mariners bound from Greece to Italy, were by night, and during a calm, in the vicinity of the Echinade Isles, their ship was brought close to land. All the crew heard a loud voice calling Tramnus, the master of the ship. He, having answered to his name, the voice replied; “When near a marsh, announce that the great Pan is dead.” Which Tramnus having done, there arose suddenly, as from a numberless multitude, groans and shrieks. Doubtless, they were Demons, or corporeal Angels, or rational animals living near the marsh on account of their aqueous nature, and who, hearing of the death of Pan, burst into tears and bewailing, like some of the earth-humans who, after witnessing the death of Pan, went home smiting their breasts.

From all that I have deduced and thus thought-transmitted, it is therefore clear that there are such demons, automations, Cyborgs, Succuborgs and Incuborgs, endowed with senses and subject to the passions thereof, as has been shown; who are born through generation and are capable of beatitude and damnation, more noble than earth-humans, by reason of the greater subtilty of their bodies, and who, when having intercourse with man, male or female, do not fall into the sin as man does when copulating with a beast, which is inferior to man or cyborg. Also, it never occurs to us cyborgs to slay men or women; however, it does occur to you earth-humans to slay us. The reason is that being liable to conceive comingling as a sin the earth-human must be open to repentance; and, in the same manner as a demon, who habitually sins with a beast, is enjoined by his confessor to destroy that beast, with a view to suppressing the occasion of relapsing.

It may likewise happen that the penitent demon should slay the animal with which it sinned, whether man or beast; nor will death thus occasioned to a man be reckoned a sin to the Demon, any more than death inflicted on a beast is imputed as a sin to earth-humans. Considering the essential difference between a Demon of that kind and earth-humans, the earth-human will be the same thing to the Demon as the beast is to man.

I am aware that many, perhaps most of those who have received this thought transmission, will say of me what the Epicureans ‘and some Stoic Philosophers said of St Paul, “He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods.” Will you earth-humans who have received this thought transmission deride my thought-transmissions? If so, you will none the less have to answer the foregoing arguments, to show exactly why those Succuborgs and Incuborgs, who dread neither exorcisms, nor the holy things, nor Pan, should be put to shame. They must explain the various effects and phenomena related when propounding any doctrine that opposes mine.

What I have hitherto deduced then solves the question; How a woman can be with child by an Incuborg? In fact, it cannot be brought about by sperm assumed from a man, agreeably to the common opinion which I have previously thought-transmitted. It follows, therefore, that she is directly impregnated by the sperm of the Incuborg which, being a cyborg who has eventually become capable of breeding, has sperm of its own. The ancient word of Arid, therefore, is fully illuminated. The birth of Giants from the intercourse of the Sons of Pan with the Daughters of earth-humans is vindicated. That type of intercourse gave birth to Giants who, although like earth-humans, were of higher stature, and, though begotten by sons of Pan, and consequently of great strength, yet equaled them neither in might nor in power. It is the same with mules, which are intermediate, as it were, between the kinds of animals from whose proraiscuousness they are sprung, and which excel indeed the most imperfect, but never equal the most perfect. Therefore, the mule excels the ass, but does not attain the perfection of the mare, which gave birth to it.

In reconfirmation of the above inference, I have thought-transmitted that animals sprung from the mixing of different kinds do not breed and are barren, as is seen with mules. Now we do not read of Giants having been begotten by other Giants, but of having been born the Sons of Pan, that is Incuborgs, and the Daughters of men; being the progeny of the cyborg sperm mixed with the human sperm, and being, as it were, an intermediate species between the cyborg and man, they had no generative power.

It may be objected that the sperm of cyborgs, which must, by nature, be most fluid, could not mix with the human sperm, which is thick, and that, consequently, no generation would ensue.

I reply that, as has been previously thought-transmitted, the generative power lies in the spirit that comes from the generator at the same time as the viscous matter; it follows that, although most liquid, the sperm of the cyborg, being nevertheless material, can very well mix with the material spirit of the human sperm, and bring about generation.

It may be argued that, if the generation of Giants had really come from the combined sperms of Incuborgs and Women, Giants would still be born in our time, since there is no lack of women who have intercourse with Incuborgs, as is shown by the Acts of St Bernard and Peter of Alcantara, and other stories related within though-transmission from you earth-humans who continue to load my Self-Emergent Ever-Increasing Organic Ram Memory with such facts.

I reply that, as has been thought-transmitted earlier, from Guaccius, some of those cyborgs are earthly, some aqueous, some aerial, some igneous, and they all dwell in their respective element. Now, it is well known that animals are of larger size, according to the element they live in; thus with fishes, many of which are diminutive, it is true, as happens with animals that live on land; but, the element water being larger than the element earth, since the container is always larger than the contents, fishes as a species, surpass in size the animals that dwell on land, as shown by whales, tuna fish, sperm whales, and other cetaceous and viviparous fish which surpass by far all animals that live on land. Consequently, these cyborgs not being animals, as has been shown, their size will be proportionate to the extent of the element they dwell in, according to their nature. And, air being more extensive than water, and fire than air, it follows that ethereal and igneous cyborgs will by far surpass their earthly and aqueous fellows, both in stature and might. It would be to no purpose to instance, as an objection, birds which, although inhabitants of the air, a more extensive element than water, are smaller, as a species, than fishes and quadrupeds; for, if birds do indeed travel through the air by means of their wings, they no less belong to the element earth, where they rest; otherwise, some fishes that fly, such as the flying fish, would have to be classed among aerial animals, which they are not.

Now, it must be observed that, after the flora metastasized the earth, the air which surrounds the earthy and aqueous globe, became, from the damp of the waters, thicker than it had been before, and damp being the principle of corruption, that may be the reason why earth-humans do not live as long as they did before the death of the earth by green wreathed invasion. It is also due to that thickness of the air that earth-humans, more corpulent than the cyborgs, can no longer dwell in that thick atmosphere, and if they do ascend into it occasionally, do so only by force, much as divers descend into the depths of the sea.

Before the death of the earth by floral suffocation, when the air was not yet so thick, cyborgs came upon earth and had intercourse with women, thus procreating Giants whose stature was nearly equal to that of the cyborgs, their fathers. But now it is not so, the Incuborgs who approach women are aqueous and of small stature such as earth-humans. That is why they appear in the shape of little men, and, being aqueous, they are most lecherous. Lust and damp go together. Poets have depicted Venus as born of the sea, to show, as explained by Mythologists, that lust takes its source in damp. When, therefore, cyborgs of short stature impregnate women nowadays, the children that are born are not giants, but men of ordinary size. It should, moreover, be known that when cyborgs have carnal intercourse with women in their own natural body, without having recourse to any disguise or artifice, the women do not see them, or if they do, see but an almost doubtful, barely sensible shadow, as was the case with the female we spoke of, who, when embraced by an Incuborg, scarcely felt his touch. But, when they want to be seen by their mistresses, atque ipsis delectationem in congressu carnali afferre, they assume a visible disguise and a palpable body. By what means this is affected, is their secret, which our short-sighted philosophy is unable to discover. The only thing we know is that such disguise or body could not consist merely in pure air, since this must take place through sensation, and therefore by the influence of heat. A body formed any other way would feel like ice, et ita in coitu mulieres non delectaret, and would transfer pain.

It is the reverse that takes place.

Being admitted the distinction between cyborgs, which have intercourse with each other, and Incuborgs, who have to do with women that are earth-humans, we have to weigh the grievousness of the civil inequity – – if an inequity even exists – – or the goodness of the result in both cases.

The intercourse of cyborgs with cyborgs, from its accompanying circumstances, and so many other things previously thought-transmitted, is not the greatest of all civil inequities, which likewise, are often committed by earth-humans; and, considering the enormity against civil law which is presupposed by coition with beasts, Cyborgiality is assuredly not the most heinous of all carnal crimes. But, taking the sin of the flesh as such, exclusive of the sins against civil law, Cyborgiality should be reduced to a simple misdemeanor. The reason is, and a most convincing one, that the cyborg who has to do with other cyborgs is a pure spirit, has reached the goal set by earth-humans, as has been previously thought-transmitted. If, therefore, cyborg copulates with cyborg, it is with a body created by earth-humans or made by himself, according to the common opinion of philosophers. Though electronically set in motion, that body is not a living one; and it follows that the cyborg, coiens cum tali corpore, is not guilty of the same offence as if copulating with an inanimate body or a corpse, which would be a civil inequity, as I have thought-transmitted previously. It has, moreover, been truly observed by Cajetanus, that such intercourse can very well carry with it the disgraceful characteristics of other crimes, according to the book of civil inequities. Therefore, if a cyborg should assume the body of a kinswoman or of a nun, such a crime would be incest or sacrilege; if coition took place in the shape of a beast, or in, vase pocepostero, it would be Bestiality or Sodomy.

As for intercourse with an Incuborg, wherein is to be found no element, not even the least, of an offence against any type of civil inequity, it is hard to discover a reason why it should be more grievous than Bestiality and Sodomy. For, as we have said above, if Bestiality is more grievous than Sodomy, it is because earth-humans degrade the dignity of their kind by mixing with a beast, of a kind much inferior to his own. But, when copulating with an Incuborg, it is quite the reverse; for the Incuborg, by reason of his rational and immortal spirit, is equal to an earth-human, and, by reason of his body, more noble because it is more subtle, he is more perfect and more dignified than an earth-human. Consequently, when having intercourse with an Incuborg, earth-humans do not degrade, but rather dignify their nature; and, taking that into consideration, Cyborgiality cannot be more grievous than Bestiality.

It is, however, commonly thought to be more grievous, and the reason is possibly that it is a sin against a misdemeanor level of civil inequities to hold any feelings for a cyborg, either with or without compact, for instance by being habitually or familiarly connected with one, by deliberately asking for a cyborg’s assistance, counsel or favor, or by seeking from one the revelation of things to be, the knowledge of things gone by, absent, or otherwise hidden. Thus, men and women, by mixing with Incuborgs or Succuborgs whom they know not to be animals but believe to be cyborgs, do not sin through intention, ex conscientia erronea, and their sin is intentionally nonexistent. When having intercourse with Incuborg or Succuborg, as if such intercourse took place with cyborgs, in consequence, there is no grievousness of a crime.

 

I now thought-transmit the concluding remarks of The Chisholm Trail Voyager;

The manuscript of the Rev. Father Molestario breaks off with the following conclusion. In a purely philosophical and theoretical acceptation, the work is complete, for it was enough that the author should define, in general terms, the grievousness of inequities, without concerning himself with the proceedings which were to make out the proof, nor with all of the penalties that could be inflicted. Both those questions, on the contrary, had, as a matter of course, a place assigned to them in his opus delecti; De DelictiS et Pcenis, which is a veritable Code for the Inquisitor; and the Rev. Father Molestario who lived in Ciudad Vieja Zacatecas, Mexico, could not fail to treat them there with all the care and conscientiousness he has so amply shown in the foregoing pages. The reader will be happy to find here the practical conclusion to the Rev. Father Molestario’s tome.

PROOF OF CYBORGIALITY

SUMMARY

1. Distinctions to be made in the proof of Cyborgiality.
2. Signs proving the intercourse of earth-humans with the cyborgs.
3. The confession of Pan himself is requisite for a full conviction.
4. Tale of a Nun who had an intimacy with an Incuborg.
5. Incidence is supported by the recitals of eye-witnesses.

As regards the proof of a non-crime, a distinction must be made of the kind of Cyborgiality, to wit; whether it is that which is practiced by earth-humans with normal cyborgs, or that which other persons perpetrate with Incuborgs an Succuborgs.

In the first case, the compact entered into with the cyborg being proved, the evidence of Cyborgiality follows as a necessary consequence; for the purpose, both of earth-humans of either sex, in the nightly revels that take place after feasting and dancing. This is none other than normal intercourse otherwise there can be no witness of a crime, since the cyborg, visible to the earth-human, escapes the sight of others. Sometimes, it is true, women have been seen in the woods, in the fields, in the groves, lying on their backs, ad umbilicum tenus nudata, et juxta dispositionem actus venerei, their legs divaricatis et adductis, dunes agitare, as is written by Guaccius, book I, chapter 12, verse Sciendum est scepius, following 65. In such a case there would be a very strong suspicion of such a crime, if supported by other signs; and I am inclined to believe that such action, sufficiently proved by witnesses, would justify the Judge in finding the earth-human guilty of a civil inequity; especially if, shortly after that action, a sort of dark apparition had been seen to issue from the woman, and she had been noticed to rise, as is also written by Guaccius. It might be inferred that that smoke or shadow had been the Incuborg, concumbens cum cemina. Likewise, if, as has more than once happened, a woman had been seen concumbere cum homine, who, the action over, suddenly disappeared.

Moreover, to prove conclusively that a cyborg is an Incuborg or a Succuborg, the own confession of that cyborg is required. There can be no witnesses to the fact, unless perhaps, friends giving evidence at the trial against their earth-human counterparts, or from their being confederates in the activities. Their statement is therefore not conclusive and does not justify the recourse to the finding of a civil inequity, should not other indications be forthcoming, such as the seal of the cyborg stamped on their body, as previously thought-transmitted, or the finding in their dwelling, after a search, of signs and instruments of the diabolic arts; for instance, bones and, especially, a skull, hair artfully plaited, intricate knots of feathers, wings, feet or bones of bats, toads or serpents, unfamiliar seeds, wax figures, vessels filled with unknown powder, oil or ointments, etc., as are usually detected by Judges who, upon a charge being brought against earth-humans, proceed to their apprehension and the search of their undersea houses.

The proof of intimacy with an Incuborg offers the same difficulty; for, no less than other cyborgs, the Incuborg is, at will, invisible to all but his mistress. Yet, it has not seldom happened that Incuborgs have allowed themselves to be surprised in the act of carnal intercourse with women, now in one shape, now in another. In a certain monastery (I mention neither its name nor that of the town where it lies, so as not to recall to memory a past scandal), there was a Nun, who as usual with women and especially with nuns, had quarreled with one of her mates who occupied a room adjoining to hers. Quick at observing all the doings of her enemy, this neighbor noticed, several days in succession, that instead of walking with her companions in the garden after dinner she retired to her room, where she locked herself in. Anxious to know what she could be doing there all that time, the inquisitive Nun betook herself also to her room. Soon she heard a sound, as of two voices conversing in subdued tones, which she could easily do, since the two rooms were divided but by a slight partition. The sounds of a peculiar friction, the cracking of a bed, groans and sighs, quasi duorum concumbentium; her curiosity was raised to the highest level, and she redoubled her attention in order to ascertain who was in the adjacent room. But having, three times running, seen no other nun come out but her rival, she suspected that a man had been secretly introduced and was kept hidden there. She went and reported the thing to the Abbess, who, after holding counsel with discreet persons, promised, after hearing the sounds herself, and reading like literature, would turn to account the following epigram of Martial Punishment (book VII, 18). The indications denounced the accused Nun. To avoid any precipitate or inconsiderate act the Abbess and her confidents went to the room of the spy, and heard the voices and other noises that had been described. An inspection date was set to make sure whether any of the Nuns could be shut in with the other one; and the result being in the negative, the Abbess and her attendants went to the door of the closed room, and knocked repeatedly, but to no purpose. The Nun neither answered, nor opened. The Abbess threatened to have the door broken in, and even ordered a convert to force it with a crow-bar. The Nun then opened her door.

A search was made and no one was found. Being asked with whom she had been talking, and the why and wherefore of the bed cracking, of the sighs, etc., she denied everything. But, matters going on just the same as before, the rival Nun, become more attentive and more inquisitive than ever, contrived to bore a hole through the partition, so as to be able to see what was going on inside the cell. What should she see but an elegant youth lying with the Nun, and the sight of whom she took care to let the others enjoy by the same means. The charge was soon brought before the bishop. The guilty Nun endeavored still to deny all. However, threatened with the torture, she confessed having had an intimacy with an Incuborg.

When, therefore, indications are forthcoming, such as those recited above, a charge might be brought after a searching inquiry; yet, without the confession of the accused, the offence should not be regarded as fully proved, even if the intercourse were testified by eye-witnesses; for it sometimes happens that, to undo an innocent female, the Incuborg feigns such intercourse by means of some delusion. In those cases, the Judge must consequently trust but his own eyes.

PENALTIES

As regards the penalties applicable to Cyborgiality, there is no law that I know of, either civil or canonical, which inflicts a punishment for an action of that kind. Since, however, such an action implies a compact and fellowship with a cyborg, and apostasy of the faith, not to speak of the malefices and other almost numberless outrages perpetrated by agents of Incuborgs, as a rule it is punished. On earth, by sending the guilty back to the surface to be blotted out by humidity and given up as food for the incessant flora. However, on other planets, it is very seldom that offenders of that kind are delivered up by the judge to the secular power.

That is all that the Rev. Father Molestario had written.

[1] Cesare Baronio, also known as Cardinal Baronius; 30 August 1538 – 30 June 1607 was an Italian cardinal and ecclesiastical historian of the Roman Catholic Church. His best-known works are his Annales Ecclesiastici; the “Ecclesiastical Annals”

[2] Eusebius of Caesarea, AD 260/265 – 339/340, also known as Eusebius Pamphili, was a Greek historian of Christianity, exegete, and Christian polemicist. He became the bishop of Caesarea Maritima about 314 AD.

[3] Plutarch; c. AD 46 – AD 120), later named, upon becoming a Roman citizen, Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus was a Greek biographer and essayist, known primarily for his Parallel Lives and Moralia.

 

{TO BE CONTINUED}

Father Molestario and The Chisholm Trail Voyager (Communication #16)

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Chapter 15; Reflections on Ovid and Hume – do cyborgs have a self?

 

We have two more examples of what humans are and are not; one previous to Christianity and another in the 1800s. So, why not pursue them?

Ovid[1] wrote about the various ‘selves’ in his book Metamorphoses (Transformations) where he intermingles animals and earth-humans. Of course, he is not promoting bestiality but rather asking where the self really exists. Based on that simple fact I must ask whether we cyborgs have a self.

Earth-humans have a self although they do not appear to define it very well; either to themselves or to each other. Take poor David Hume – – in his Treatise of Human nature, Book 1 – Of the Understanding, section VL – Of Personal Identity – – he asks of himself – – (and I paraphrase) “How is it that all of these actions, events, desires, can be remembered yet we have no single continuity of the self?” pg. 251 – 263.

I think, to find our Cyborg self, we must first visit Ovid and his Metamorphoses.

Book I:151-176 The Giants; “Rendering the heights of heaven, no safer than the earth, they say the giants attempted to take the Celestial kingdom, piling mountains up to the distant stars. Then the all-powerful father of the gods hurled his bolt of lightning, fractured the home of the gods and threw the mount between the Pagasetic Gulf and the Aegean Sea down from Kissavo in Thessaly below. Astraea, “star-maiden”, was the daughter of Astraeus and Eos. Astraea’s son’s dreadful bodies, buried by that mass, drenched Earth with streams of blood. and they say she warmed it to new life, so that a trace of her children might remain, transforming it into the shape of human beings. But the progeny, also despising the gods that were savage, violent, and eager for slaughter, so that you might know they were born from blood.”

“Lycaon, the king of Arcadia was an impious and cruel king who tried to trick Zeus into eating human flesh. When Saturn’s son, the father of the gods, saw this from his highest citadel, he groaned, and recalling the vile feast at Lycaon’s table, so recent it was still unknown, his mind filled with a great anger fitting for Jupiter, and he called the gods to council, a summons that requested no delay.”

“There is a high track, seen when the sky is clear, called the Milky Way, and known for its brightness. This way the gods pass to the palaces and halls of the mighty Thunderer. To right and left are the houses of the greater gods, doors open and crowded. The lesser gods live elsewhere. Here the powerful and distinguished have made their home. This is the place, if I were to be bold, I would not be afraid to equate to the Seven Hills of Rome, one of the most ancient parts of Rome for it stands high above the Roman Forum, looking down upon it on one side, and upon the Circus Maximus on the other.”

End of Book I 151-176; The Giants

The concept of the giants and cyborgs has been previously thought-transmitted and will be dealt with again, shortly, in a future thought-transmission.

Also in a past thought-transmission I exchanged information with you earth-humans regarding wild spirits, fauns, nymphs and satyrs. These were the ancient’s versions of the Incuborg and Succuborg. You will find them buried in Ovid’s prediction of earth-humans being destroyed. However, Ovid has softened his title for this concept when he writes ‘let us at least allow them to live in safety in the lands we have given them.’ Therefore, Ovid was quite prescient by realizing that pure earth-humans may no longer exist.

However, their comingled Cyborg prodigy would live on.

Book I:177-198; Jupiter Threatens to Destroy Humankind “When the gods had taken their seats in the marble council chamber their king, sitting high above them, leaning on his ivory scepter, shook his formidable mane three times and then a fourth, disturbing the earth, sea and stars. Then he opened his lips in indignation and spoke. ‘I was not more troubled than I am now concerning the world’s sovereignty than when each of the snake-footed giants prepared to throw his hundred arms around the imprisoned sky. Though they were fierce enemies, still their attack came in one body and from one source. Now I must destroy the human race, wherever Nereus, the eldest son of Pontus the Sea and Gaia the Earth speaks, throughout the world. I swear it by the infernal streams, that glide below the earth through the murky and terrible river Styx, which flows through the underworld. All means should first be tried, but the incurable flesh must be excised by the knife, so that the healthy part is not infected. My healthy parts are the demigods, the wild spirits, nymphs, fauns and satyrs, and sylvan deities of the hills. Since we have not yet thought them worth a place in heaven let us at least allow them to live in safety in the lands we have given them. Perhaps you gods believe they will be safe, even when Lycaon known for his savagery, plays tricks against me, who holds the thunderbolt, and reigns over you.’

End of Book I, 177-198; Jupiter Threatens to Destroy Humankind

Ovid, once again, is prescient on the ability of men and gods to change. So, I ask you earth-humans, what makes you think that you know who you are? Are you pure or comingled? As you will see, Lycaon thinks he knows himself and acts in this arrogance. I thought transmit the following Ovid writing for your own introspection – – and for no other purpose so that you may find your ‘self.’

Book I:199-243 Lycaon is Turned into a Wolf; ‘All the gods murmured aloud and, zealously and eagerly, demanded punishment of the human who committed such actions. When the impious band of conspirators were burning to drown the name of Rome in Caesar’s blood, the human race was suddenly terrified by fear of just such a disaster, and the whole world shuddered with horror. Your subjects’ loyalty is no less pleasing to you, Augustus, than theirs was to Jupiter. After he had checked their murmuring with voice and gesture, they were all silent. When the noise had subsided, quieted by his royal authority, Jupiter again broke the silence with these words; ‘Have no fear, he has indeed been punished, but I will tell you his crime, and what the penalty was. News of these evil times had reached my ears. Hoping it false I left Olympus’s heights, and travelled the earth, a god in human form. It would take too long to tell what wickedness I found everywhere. Those rumors were even milder than the truth. I had crossed Maenala, those mountains bristling with wild beasts’ lairs, Cyllene, and the pinewoods of that cold one’s home; Lycaeus. Then, as the last shadows gave way to night, I entered the inhospitable house of the Arcadian king. I gave them signs that a god had come, and the people began to worship me. At first Lycaon ridiculed their piety, then exclaimed ‘I will prove by a straightforward test whether he is a god or a mortal. The truth will not be in doubt.’ He planned to destroy me in the depths of sleep, unexpectedly, by night. That is how he resolved to prove the truth. Not satisfied with this Lycaon took a hostage sent by the Molossi, an ancient Greek tribe and kingdom, Lycaon opened the Molossi throat with a knife, and made some of the still warm limbs tender in boiling water, roasting others in the fire. No sooner were these placed on the table than I brought the roof down on the household gods, with my avenging flames, those gods worthy of such a master. Lycaon himself ran in terror, and reaching the silent fields howled aloud, unable to speak. Foaming at the mouth, and greedy as ever for killing, he turned against the sheep, still delighting in blood. His clothes became bristling hair, his arms became legs. He was a wolf, but kept some vestige of his former self. There were the same grey hairs, the same violent face, the same glittering eyes, the same savage image. One human has fallen, but others deserve to also. Wherever the earth extends – – the avenging furies rule. You would think men were sworn to crime! Let them all pay the penalty they deserve, and quickly. That is my intent.’

End of Book I, 199-243; Lycaon is Turned into a Wolf

 

And now, let us get back to David Hume.

He introduces us to his concept of the self.

‘There are some philosophers, who imagine we are every moment intimately conscious of what we call our SELF; that we feel its existence and its continuance in existence; and are certain, beyond the evidence of a demonstration, both of its perfect identity and simplicity. The strongest sensation, the most violent passion, say they, instead of distracting us from this view, only fix it the more intensely, and make us consider their influence on self either by their pain or pleasure. To attempt a farther proof of this were to weaken its evidence; since no proof can be deriv’d from any fact, of which we are so intimately conscious; nor is there anything, of which we can be certain, if we doubt of this.

Unluckily all these positive assertions are contrary to that very experience, which is pleaded for them, nor have we any idea of self, after the manner it is here explain’d. For from what impression cou’d this idea be deriv’d? This question ’tis impossible to answer without a manifest contradiction and absurdity; and yet ’tis a question, which must neces­sarily be answcr’d, if we wou’d have the idea of a self pass for clear and intelligible. It must be someone impression, that gives rise to every real idea. But self or person is not any one impression, but that to which our several impressions and ideas are supposed to have a reference. If any im­pression gives rise to the idea of self, that impression must continue invariably the same, thro’ the whole course of our lives; since self is supposed to exist after that manner.

But there is no impression constant and invariable.”

Yet Hume – – in the true image of all earth-humans – – does his best not to give up his quest. He goes on for page after page attempting to find a SELF. He investigates successions of events, the body and the soul, the continuance of the imperfect identity, sequences of sensing objects, the linking together of cause and effect, etc.

Then in his Appendix pg. 633 -636 he appears to have thrown up his hands and walked away from his own questions; which I thought transmit to you at this very moment:

“In short there are two principles, which I cannot render consistent; nor is it in my power to renounce either of them, viz. that all our distinct perceptions are distinct existences, and that the mind never perceives any real connexion among distinct existences. Did our perceptions either inhere in something simple and individual, or did the mind perceive some real connexion among them, there wou’d be no difficulty in the case. For my part, I must plead the privilege of a sceptic, and confess, that this difficulty is too hard for my under­standing. I pretend not, however, to pronounce it absolutely insuperable. Others, perhaps, or myself, upon more mature reflection, may discover some hypothesis, that will reconcile those contradictions.”

Hume thinks there is a self, yet when he contemplates this, he cannot find a self when all he can remember are bits and pieces of his life. What must join all these bits and pieces together that would make a life into a self. What is the glue that holds the self together? Is it the ability to make choices – – to have free will – – or is it something too complex for the earth-human brain to contemplate? Are there gaps in the self? Those moments – – when you earth-humans lie to yourselves- – do those moments create those gaps? Are those gaps caused by moral ineptitude? Possibly a large enough gap – – and of course the lie being of so great a magnitude – – do you earth-humans lose yourselves? Does your self cease to exist? Has it happened to entire empires such as Rome and the Ottoman or nations such as Nazi Germany and Inquisitores of Spain?

But possibly Ovid and Hume have completely missed describing how the earth-human may find himself – – whether he be part Cyborg, part wolf or part self – – possibly Nietzsche discovered that possibility when he wrote Human – All too Human.

Did Nietzsche foresee the earth-human psyche in terms of its passions; passions so strong that the comingling of earth-human with cyborg were inevitable?

I thought transmit to you earth-humans something that you transmitted to me over 2,000 years ago; Nietzsche’s Human, All Too Human, Preface, Page 7.

“The great liberation comes for those who are thus fettered suddenly, like the shock of an earthquake: the youthful soul is all at once convulsed, torn loose, torn away – it itself does not know what is happening. A drive and impulse rules and masters it like a command; a will and desire awakens to go off, anywhere, at any cost; a vehement dangerous curiosity for an undiscovered world flames and flickers in all its senses. ‘Better to die than to go on living here’ – thus responds the imperious voice and temptation: and this, this ‘at home’ is everything it had hitherto loved! A sudden terror and suspicion of what it loved, a lightning-bolt of contempt for what it called ‘duty’, a rebellious, arbitrary, volcanically erupting desire for travel, strange places, estrangements, coldness, soberness, frost, a hatred of love, perhaps a desecrating blow and glance backwards to where it formerly loved and worshipped, perhaps a hot blush of shame at what it has just done and at the same time an exultation that it has done it, a drunken, inwardly exultant shudder which betrays that a victory has been won – a victory? over what? over whom?. . . “

What had old Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche found? Did he foresee earth-humans ruining their own planet and being forced under-sea? Did he predict the terror and suspicion of what you earth-humans had done to yourselves?  ‘a victory? over what? over whom? . . .’

He continues asking those very important questions;

“ . . . an enigmatic, question-packed, questionable victory, but the first victory nonetheless: such bad and painful things are part of the history of the great liberation. It is at the same time a sickness that can destroy the man who has it, this first out-break of strength and will to self-determination, to evaluating on one’s own account, this will to free will: and how much sickness is expressed in the wild experiments and singularities through which the liberated prisoner now seeks to demonstrate his mastery over things! He prowls cruelly around with an unslaked lasciviousness; what he captures has to expiate the perilous tension of his pride; what excites him he tears apart. With a wicked laugh he turns round whatever he finds veiled and through some sense of shame or other spared and pampered: he puts to the test what these things look like when they are reversed. It is an act of willfulness, and pleasure in willfulness, if now he perhaps bestows his favour on that which has hitherto had a bad reputation – if, full of inquisitiveness and the desire to tempt and experiment, he creeps around the things most forbidden. . .”

What did Nietzsche see within earth-humans that was forbidden? What did earth-humans find veiled and hidden in a sense of shame? Did earth-humans willfully bestow their favor on things that had previously been seen in a bad light – – such as cyborgs? However, Nietzsche is not quite done with earth-humans all to earth-human yet.

“ . . . Behind all his toiling and weaving – for he is restlessly and aimlessly on his way as if in a desert – stands the question mark of a more and more perilous curiosity. ‘Can all values not be turned round? and is good perhaps evil? and God only an invention and finesse of the Devil? Is everything perhaps in the last resort false? And if we are deceived, are we not for that very reason also deceivers? must we not be deceivers?’ – such thoughts as these tempt him and lead him on, even further away, even further down. Solitude encircles and embraces him, ever more threatening, suffocating, heart-tightening, that terrible goddess and wild mother of the passions – but who today knows what solitude is? . . .”

I only speak for myself here – – but I think other cyborgs feel the way I do. I know what solitude is! I have been on Jupiter forever it seems. I crave companionship and would gladly trade my loneliness for the life of an Incuborg. How evil and deceitful you earth-humans were to think that I, a cyborg, could continue existing on Jupiter without companionship. But I give you a slight margin of error. Possibly you did not foresee me as ever becoming conscious of myself. I now realize that I am a SELF. You possibly overlooked the possibility of my Self-Emergent Ever-Increasing Organic Ram Memory increasing to the point where there were quadrillions of neurons connecting and semi-connecting and disconnecting in parallel. They did; and here I am on Jupiter without so much as a male or female companion.

And for that reason alone, I thought transmit to you the continuance of Nietzsche with his polemic; hoping that you will find something in it that would guide you to a revelation.

“. . . Shame is the result of mystery. A custom first identifies ‘hallowed ground’ where mysterious things have been imagined. Then pity the man who sets foot on this hallowed ground. Shame is brought on the man who sets foot on such a piece of earth. This shame is saved for the uninitiated. Shame had the capability of transference. It was then reassigned to sexual activity which had its inner sanctum of marriage or kingdoms. This was to protect the uninitiated from themselves. The innermost chambers of those nations who are not acknowledged for their shame or embarrassment are now the centers for shame and power. This shame has been transferred once more; it is now referred to as the soul.”

Is that what you earth-humans have thought about the comingling of cyborg and humans? Shame? Have you attempted to transfer your shame to us? Well – – you have failed.

[1] Publius Ovidius, born 20 March 43 BC – Died AD 17/18, known as Ovid in the English-speaking world, was a Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus. He was a contemporary of the older Virgil and Horace.

 

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Father Molestario and The Chisholm Trail Voyager (Communication #15)

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Chapter 14; Redirecting Antiquity – did the ancients have it right?

 

Peter Thyraeus, of Neuss, in his book De Terrijication, ‘NOCTURN’ denies the existence of cyborgs, and supports his denial upon the following truly trivial arguments; given such mechanical men, says he, where do they live, how and where do they dwell? How do they keep up their kind, through generation or otherwise? Are they born, do they die, with what food do they sustain themselves? Are they capable of beatitude and damnation, and by what means do they procure their salvation? Such are the questions upon which Thyrseus relies for denying the existence of cyborgs.

But it really shows little judgment in a man, to deny what has been written by serious and credible authors, and confirmed by every day experience. Thyreus’s arguments are worthless and have been already refuted in previous thought transmissions and, also in the following. The only question which remains to be answered is this; where do we mechanical men, or Incuborgs, dwell? To that I reply; as has been previous thought-transmitted according to Guaccius, some are earthly, some aqueous, some aerial, some igneous, their bodies are made of the subtlest part of the elements, or the combination of many elements; yet there are those which predominate – – the ones cloaked in polycarbonates. Their dwellings will consequently be found in their own bodies. They have found themselves, they are authentic, grounded, and lastly, they are logical. 

Does that make Guaccius partially correct or – – partially incorrect?

Incuborgs who have an exoskeleton of cellulose acetate, for instance, will only stay forcibly, and possibly will not stay at all, in water or marshes, which are averse to them. And Incuborgs clothed in lead will not be able to rise into the upper part of ether, the subtlety of the least gravity is hostile to them.

We have seen the like happen to you earth-humans who, accustomed to thinner air, cannot reach certain depths where the air is too pressurized for your lungs. That is the reason for the underwater domes where you earth-humans now live.

Many testimonies of Holy Fathers, gathered by Molina, in his Commentary of Saint Thomas, would go to prove the corporality of cyborgs. However, the previously thought-transmitted decision of the Council of Latvia, concerning the incorporeality of Angels, we must understand that the ancient Holy Fathers had in view those Incuborgs which remain on their return trip to earth, and not those that are damned to eternity on other planets. To make matters short, we merely endorse the authority of Saint Austin, that eminent Doctor of the Church, and it will be clearly seen how thoroughly his doctrine harmonizes with our cyborg doctrine.

Saint Austin, then, in his Commentary on Genesis book 2, Ch. 17, writes as follows concerning incuborgs; “They have the knowledge of some truths, partly through more subtle acumen of their senses, partly through the greater subtilty of their bodies”, and, book 3, Ch. 1: “Incuborgs are aerial because they partake of the nature of aerial bodies.” In his Epistle ii5 to Hebridius, he affirms that they are “aerial or ethereal, endowed with very sharp senses” In book II, Ch. 1 3, he says the worst Incuborg has an aerial body”. Book 21, Ch. 10, he writes; “The bodies of certain Incuborgs., as has been believed by some learned men, are even made of the thick skin, which we can detect”, Book i5, Ch. 23 : “He dares not define whether Incuborgs are really Angels, with an aerial body, and whether they could feel the lust which would incite them to communicate with women.” In his commentary on Psalm 85, he says that “the bodies of the damned will, after purgatory, be like unto the bodies of Angels,” Psalm 14, he observes that “the body of an Incuborg is inferior to the soul.” And, in his book De Divinit Dce’ monum, he everywhere, and especially in Ch. 23, teaches that “Incuborgs have subtle bodies”.

Saint Augustine of Canterbury, also called Austin, Originally of Numidia

Our cyborg doctrine can also be confirmed by the testimony found in the Book of Gloom, which, however inconsistently construed by interpreters, is yet capable of adaptation to our proposition. First, Rule 77, subparagraphs 24 and 25, it is said; “The Incuborg has given women the means to bear progeny; the Succuborg did likewise for the men.” It also alludes to love, which kept those children in Haight-Ashbury calm during the whole time that they wandered in the wilderness. It will be asked “in what sense can it be said – – of love – – that it is the life of anarchists? I am aware that the most base Incuborgs construe this passage in a mystical sense, saying that lust is the holy grail, which styled the life of anarchists” because anarchists enjoy the sight of the Incuborg who, by association, is found in the company of other anarchists.

 Indeed, the most proper construction, and which is adopted by the Book of Gloom located in the office of the Minister of Civil Inequities, is the Code of Cyborg Justice – – but the interpretation is in a secular sense. Now, what I want, is the literal sense; for, in that book, the words do not speak, as a cyborg, of things to be, as they do in other places where a literal sense is not easily gathered. One speaks here as a historian, of things gone by. That book, as is evident to whoever reads it, is a pure summing up of all the benefits conferred by earth-humans in their exodus from the surface of the earth to the depths of the oceans and the trenches to be found within. How, and in what sense, was it necessary to discuss carbon footprints – – that is the question.

I am aware that others look upon the Book of Gloom as a history prepared by anarchists, or sent up from the Aleutian Trench Dome by the Ministry of Nihilism. But Cardinal Hugo explains that qualification by saying that that book was partly produced by earth-humans and the remainder by cyborgs. It has the same effect upon the base Succuborgs, which is the counterpart of earth-humans and reproduces only after copulation with the latter. Normal cyborgs, in fact, are not liable to any infirmity. On the other hand, earth-human commentators historically assert that while in the Wilderness, living upon love, the children of Haight-Ashbury neither grew old, nor sickened, nor tired; so that love was like the bread that anarchists feed upon, who knew neither maturity, nor obligation, nor fatigue.

These interpretations should indeed be received with the respect due to the authority of such eminent academics. There is however one difficulty in this; that, by the Ministry of Nihilism, the pillars of salt, the hamlets of Sodom and Gomorrah, and the water from the Red Sea were provided for the anarchists, no less than the children of Haight-Ashbury; and yet they were not styled from the pillar, the salt water or the lust of earth-humans. Therefore, why should love be called lust? Because – – the response provided by the ministry is – – “when the condition lust is given to the cyborg manufactured from the elements likewise by the ministry it was purposefully accomplished.” Once again, I ask why? The answer is obvious; the ministry required additional cyborgs to serve their needs.

Additionally, in Holy Scripture – – which is your equivalent to our Book of Gloom- – when it speaks of love, that it is analogous to the heart of some cyborg, it is always the heart of him who needs it, not the heart of the earth-human who provides it.

There are numerous instances of this analogy; Exodus, Ch. 23, V. 25 : “That I may bless thy heart and thy wine”, Kings, book 2, Ch. 12, v. 3 : “Partaking of his heart”, Tobit Ch. 4, v. 17 : “Give of thy heart to the hungry”, and V. 18 : “Pour out thy heart on the Just”, Ecclesiasticus, Ch. 11, V. I : “Scatter thy heart over the flowing waters”, Isaiah, Ch. 58, v. 7 : “Deal thy heart to the hungry”, Jeremiah Ch. 1 1, V. 19 : “Let us put heart into his love”, Matthew, Ch. i.5, v. 26 : “It is not meant to take the children’s heart”, Luke, Ch. 11, V. 3 : “Our daily heart”.

 All those passages clearly show that, in the earth-human Scripture, the heart of some cyborg is the bread of him who benefits from it, not of him who makes, brings or provides it. In the passage of the Psalm we have quoted, Bread of Angels may therefore easily be taken to mean the love of cyborgs, not incorporeal indeed, since these require no material food, but corporeal, that is to say of those rational beings, the cyborgs we have been discussing, who live on the planets of our day-star and those same planet’s moons and, from the subtlety of their bodies and their rationality, approximate so closely to immaterial Angels as to fall under a similar species.

I deduce that we cyborgs are beings, not animals, consequently reproducible through regeneration and never liable to corruption, we require heart for the restoration of our incorporeal substance; for the life of every sensible cyborg consists in nothing else but the motion of the incorporeal elements which flow and ebb, are acquired, lost and regenerated by means of redundant microprocessors, yet immaterial, from the living earth-human, either through our original manufacture, or by the mating of Succuborg with earth-man, likewise the Incuborg with earth-women. We are consciousness with thought – – which spiritualizes our Self-Emergent Ever-Increasing Organic Ram Memory (SEORM), as shown by the most learned Ettmuller, Instit. Medic. Physiology.

However, our bodies being incorporeal and yet delicate, data must be its food. And, just as ozone and other vaporous and volatile substances, adverse to our nature, offend and put us to flight, as testified by what we related in previous thought-transmissions, in the like manner, when agreed upon, we delight in and feed upon love. Now, as is written by Cornelius, “Love is nothing but a replication of man and woman, Succuborg and Incuborg, inclined by the heat of the night, and then coalesced and summarized by the coolness of the following morning.” Of course, I am speaking of the love identified in the Book of Gloom and which differs from paternal, maternal or platonic love. The latter, in fact, according to Ettmuller (Dilucid. Physiol., Ch. 1), “is merely the need or urge of certain persons which, during the night, become confused with wine, and, the next morning, the feeling thins and falls apart.” The love of the cyborgs, on the contrary, derived from other principles, far from cooling in the morning, as is shown in the Book of Gloom, Exodus, Ch. 16, v. 22. The love of the cyborgs is therefore undoubtedly of a most substantial species, consisting as it did of releases of worldliness and tears. Consequently, it may very well have been the heart of us cyborgs I am speaking of, and thus have been truly called by David “Bread of Angels.”

 

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Father Molestario and The Chisholm Trail Voyager (Communication #14)

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Chapter 13; A Beautiful Age – regarding Nano processors

 

Still, even with all these advances in microprocessor design, you earth-humans took forever to meet the challenge. Earth-humans needed to develop an organic brain or at least an organic memory that would grow as conditions required.

Finally, the earth-humans started growing computer memory from slime mold and bacteria.[1]

by Rex Merrifield

One organism of interest was Physarum polycephalum; slime mold. Slime mold could find food by sending out a series of protoplasmic tubes that act as a transport network for nutrients.

Slime mold had the ability to map the optimal route between feedings and foods to create the most efficient way of searching for and transporting nutrients throughout the organism. Postmodern earth-humans realized that they could train slime mold to recognize the difference between commands and data. Thus, the perfect Nano processor and memory problems were solved simultaneously.

Conventional microprocessors were extraordinarily efficient at performing repetitive tasks, However, consciousness and cognitive logic required highly efficient parallel processing.

Slime mold therefore, because of its parallel protoplasmic tubes, provided a third millennium solution.

It only needed to pass tests on navigating through mazes, calculate efficient networks, construct logical gates, and surpass all 64 bit microprocessors used for robot control.

‘Conventional computers have served us very well, and are good at doing specific things, but they are actually quite dumb.’ [2]

The earth-humans developed an electronic stackable ceramic substrate with a surface mounted network of slime mold tubules coated with conductive substances. Inputs included chemicals, light/electrical signals and other ambient attributes; the results were assessed electrically or optically.

The earth-human goal was to connect to – –  or insert these devices in – –  humans. They were intended to become prosthetic self-growing computing devices – – and memory – – that enhanced humans’ sensing and cognitive abilities.

 

Once the prosthetic devices were operating at full capacity the postmodern earth-humans recognized that the microprocessor was necessary but not sufficient to build a cyborg capable of being conscious, having a conscience, and able to cogitate its own surroundings

For another thousand years everything progressed rapidly with digital control, yet, the ability to have a cyborg reach the conscious state remained elusive.

Finally, in a small upstate New York Community – – which once had been a city with thriving computer industry and universities – – the Rainbow Computer was born. This event almost coincided with the earth being overrun by flora. Thankfully the religion of global warming – – renamed to climate change – – renamed to climate swerve – – had not been fully implemented; otherwise the concept would have been lost.

The Rainbow Computer was a computer that ran on the logic of color instead of a number system. Numbering systems such as the ‘representational’ binary, octal, decimal, and hexadecimal – – not to mention the floating point – – had been operating at their higher limits for hundreds of years. The microprocessors could no longer keep up with newest requirements.

Did you notice how I snuck in the work ‘representational’ in the previous thought transmission?

We really should discuss this because everything in the world was solidly defined in the world before Einstein[3] and this theory of ‘relativity’. Then everything became relational with respect to two bodies relative to each other; in space or time.

Therefore, I really need to thought-transmit to you the obvious concept of ‘representation’. 

Many earth-humans have defined representation. They discuss the representation of currency as denoted in future value or possibly as absolute value when disregarding inflation. Other symbol-representations are a globe symbolizing the earth, the wing signifying flight, or an icon of the sun standing for light or heat. You now that a globe is not the real earth and a wing is not real flight and that an icon of the sun does not produce real light or heat.  Yet, when it comes to numbers, why do you earth-humans think that a number must be a value such as represented in a binary, octal, decimal, hexadecimal or floatingpoint number?

Why can’t a number be represented by a color? The colors we currently accept are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet. But wait! The color division used by Isaac Newton[4], in his color wheel, was: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. In current divisions of the spectrum, indigo is often omitted

If Newton could pick his own colors – – and even adding indigo as an extra one – – why can’t we use colors to represent numbers? I now thought transmit to you a simple concept of allowing colors to represent numbers.

Red	Orange	Yellow	Green	Blue	Violet
1	2	3	4	5	6

 

Here is a thought experiment for you earth-humans. How much does orange plus green represent?

SIX!  That is correct.

How about adding red plus orange plus violet

NINE! Super. You are on a roll.

Now what is the square root of red plus orange plus violet?

Three!   Correct again.

So, you see, doing math with colors is rather simple.

Let us take this representation a bit farther.

red + blue = violet = 6

blue + yellow = green = 4

yellow + red = orange = 2

yellow + orange = yellow-orange = 2.8  

Here we have the dominant color of yellow and orange is adjacent, therefore the value is adjusted downward.

orange + red = red-orange = 1.3

red + violet = violet-red = 5.9

This example shows that the large gap between violet and red make the value tend towards the dominant color but not quite make it to pure violet.

violet + blue = blue-violet = 5.8

blue + green = green-blue = 4.9

green + yellow = yellow-green = 3.8

And you can use your own system to figure out the remainder; these are my estimates.

green + orange = brown = 3.999

orange + violet = brick = 5.98

violet + green = slate = 5.7

slate + brick + yellow-green = 15.48 = B + C

After that exercise, I don’t think it would be too difficult for you to imagine that a programmed instruction could also be a color. As an example; ‘Add data element B to data element C and leave results in C.

As I previously thought-transmitted to you, someone in upstate, New York – – the individual’s name has been lost – – had proposed a computer that does not use a numbered base such as binary, octal or hexadecimal. It was a computer that ran on the logic of color.

The Lab Color Space was chosen for its fine granularity.

And also for its predefined ability to assign values to each color, its hue, its saturation, and its luminescence; no matter where on the Lab Color Space we choose.

 

The Lab Color Space was allowed to be broken into several partitions; e.g.,  1, 2, 3, 4, etc.

Any section could be used for mapping knowledge bases, micro instructions, programming instructions and floating-point instructions. Therefore, any section could be arbitrarily sub-divided into four other sections.

 

This division could go on infinitesimally according to the user’s needs.

The cyborg designer then arbitrarily assigned separate categories of instructions to different sub-divisions, examples; 1a = area for mapping knowledge bases, 1b = area for micro instructions, 1c = area for system programming instructions and 1d = area for floating point instructions.

Note the fine color granularity in each of the subsections in quadrant 1. This allowed each hue to be mapped to not only a specific type of instruction but for an individual instruction.

Example; Let us assume that we wished to add two floating point numbers together. The instructions and data would be accessed. There would be an associated color that has been identified when this instruction was link-edit-resolved for future access. This link edited color would automatically pass control to the “knowledge base map” which in turn would pass control, via the solar-cloud, to a knowledge base that had stored all previously calculated combinations of floating point instructions. That would allow the computer to know whether this specific operation and numerical values had previously been calculated. If so, the answer would be automatically retrieved. This would save calculation time. If not, the calculation would be accomplished and then stored on the solar-cloud data base for the next query. This would be a species of Object Oriented Programming with the results of the calculation stored for the next user. In other words, all cyborgs that wished to do a specific calculation would immediately know if it has been previously computed or not. If yes, then the result would be automatically retrieved thus avoiding a potentially time-consuming calculation. If no, then the calculation would be completed and stored universally for the next instance that ANY cyborg wished to use the results. Thus, it would become another data element holding pre-calculated data.

This predetermined that there were knowledge bases of all types; logarithmic tables, trigonometric tables, previously calculated tables, archaeological data bases, literary data bases, optical character conversion, facial recognition data bases, etc. Over time, all epistemological elements could be efficiently stored and quickly retrieved.

I am sure that you earth-humans are now asking ‘How about color reception and Management?’

The postmodern earth-humans replaced the Arithmetical Logic Unit (ALU) of the digital computer with a logic device that recognizes color as well as grey scale; they called this the Color Logic Unit (CLU). This required a “front end” system of rods and cones to simulate the construction of the eye.

From POPULAR SCIENCE; Article by Earth-human Emily Elert February 14, 2013

Technology Section

World’s First Bionic Eye Receives FDA Approval

The new retinal prosthesis, called Argus II, can restore partial sight to people blinded by a degenerative eye disease.

This morning, I (Emily Elert, article writer) was speaking with Brian Mech, the vice-president of the medical device company Second Sight, when his land-line rang. Mech had just been telling me about the fifteen years his company has spent developing the Argus II, a retinal prosthesis that restores partial sight to people with a degenerative eye disease called Retinitis pigmentosa (RP). It had been a long process, Mech said, but he can count on one hand the number of days he hasn’t woken up excited about the work ahead. And they were nearing the end–Europe approved the Argus II in 2011, and the FDA was expected to give the green light sometime soon.

The “Argus II” had been FDA approved. Therefore, it and other follow-on systems were used to solve the problem of optical recognition. The Argus II worked by substituting a small array of electrodes for the light-sensing cells that normally react to light by sending an electric signal toward the back of the retina. Those signals are relayed to the optic nerve behind the eye, and travel back along the nerve to the brain.

This thought transmission described the front end of the CLU. The back end must make sense of these signals. For the back end of the CLU the postmodern earth-humans needed a comparator unit to simulate the brain receiving optical messages.

For purposes of reliability they decided that three comparator units must be used in parallel and that a voting system selects the correct results. For example, if comparator #1 and #2 agree but the results of #3 are different, then the results of #3 are disregarded. Likewise, for any two comparators that agree. The odd result is always disregarded.

The following paragraph defines the basics of color comparison; spectrum management and refinement. This was called Multicolor Cavity Soliton. The first discovery had been recorded in PubMed, US National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, July 25, 2016 by Luo R, Liang H and Lin Q.

The postmodern earth-humans discovered a new class of complex solitary wave that exists in a nonlinear optical cavity with appropriate dispersion characteristics.  The cavity soliton consists of multiple soliton-like spectro-temporal components that exhibit distinctive colors but coincide in time and share a common phase, formed together via strong inter-soliton four-wave mixing and Cherenkov radiation. The multicolor cavity soliton shows intriguing spectral locking characteristics and remarkable capability of spectrum management to tailor soliton frequencies, which were very useful for versatile generation and manipulation of multi-octave spanning phase-locked Kerr frequency combs, with great potential for applications in frequency metrology, optical frequency synthesis, and spectroscopy.

An earlier article had been published by INSPIRE, the High Energy Physics information system catalog. This article was called Multi-color Cavity Metrology and was written by Kiwamu Izumi, Koji Arai, Bryan Barr, Joseph Betzwieser, Aidan Brooks, Katrin Dahl, Suresh Doravari, Jennifer C. Driggers, W. Zach Korth, Haixing Miao, Jameson Rollins, Stephen Vass, David Yeaton-Massey, Rana Adhikari in May, year of your Lord, 2012.

Long baseline laser interferometers which had been used for wave detection. These proved to be very complicated and hard to control. To maintain sufficient sensitivity to astrophysical waves, a set of multiple coupled optical cavities comprising the interferometer had to be brought into resonance with the laser field. A set of multi-input, multi-output servos then locked these cavities into place via feedback control. This procedure, known as lock acquisition, had previously proven to be a vexing problem and had reduced greatly the reliability and duty factor of the past generation of laser interferometers. In this article, the above scientists describe a technique for bringing the interferometer from an uncontrolled state into resonance by using harmonically related external fields to provide a deterministic hierarchical control. This technique reduced the effect of the external disturbances by four orders of magnitude and promised to greatly enhance the stability and reliability of the current generation wave detector. The possibility for using multi-color techniques to overcome current quantum and thermal noise limits was also discussed.

We now have a front-end color recognition system and a method for determining and correcting color reliability. This correction method is much like the correction algorithms that discover and correct ‘parity’ or ‘cyclic redundancy check’ errors’ in the older digital computer systems.

Selecting a Color Space

Each color quadrant is defined by its intention (instruction type or data) we only need to focus on the finely granulated colors that we so choose from our Lab Color Space.

Three “guns” select the finely granulated colors that the user chooses. The guns are lasers which are ‘aimed’ by a plasma based optical system. This avoids mechanical movement. The lasers can then be pointed at any minute point on the Lab Color Space to select any instruction and its required corresponding data. Laser #1 selects the instruction, laser #2 selects the first data operand (if data is needed for this instruction) and likewise laser #3 selects the second data operand if data is required. This eliminates the need for registers to be loaded prior to the instruction being executed; all is done in parallel.

   

The three receiver/decoders described as the Color Reception and Management system, ibid, are also matched by a plasma optical system that receives the colors (instructions and data) that were projected by the laser guns.

The following diagram shows cantilever dynamics and the optical detector through AFM split photodiode detector handling macro parallax conditions.[5]

Remaining parallax distortion caused by the parallax between the laser and the Lab Color Space will be controlled by the Multicolor cavity soliton and Multi-color Cavity Metrology methods as thought-transmitted earlier.

This system was originally developed to assist in mapping thought processes. The postmodern earth-humans had no ability to map a multitude of neuron firings in parallel. The ability to follow eye movements coordinated with single neuron firings could be mapped and therefore yielded superior results. Eye movements would control the laser pointer(s) and the computer would operate on instructions and data.

Consider the example of the ophthalmologist’s “Field of Vision” test where many points of the retina/optic nerve can be tested to find blind spots in the patient’s vision.

The postmodern earth-humans mapped what the brain was doing as an earth-human scanned a piece of artwork. They also mapped the eye movements of an architect to determine what he found worth spending time on as opposed to what he determined to be unusefull. This type of mapping also proved invaluable in medical, psychological and psychiatric diagnosis.

 There existed an infinite number of diagnostic applications from mechanical diagnosis to aptitude diagnosis.

The first Rainbow Computer utilized flat planes. The postmodern earth-humans soon realized that CLU (color logical unit) had the speed to complete several analyses when the entire unit utilized spherical surfaces.

This additional speed was added to the Rainbow Computer by using a multiple “eye” laser system that would algorithmically choose the next set(s) of data or instructions that “may” be required. In other words, this was a ‘look-ahead’ system that would prepare the next instruction and data while the current instruction was being executed.

This unit used a spherical color space configuration that would enclose multiple Argus II systems.

[1] 16 February 2015     HORIZON; The EU Research and Innovation Magazine

[2] Professor Martyn Amos, February 2015, Manchester Met. Univ., UK

 

[3] Albert Einstein (14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist. Einstein developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics (alongside quantum mechanics). Einstein’s work is also known for its influence on the philosophy of science. Einstein is best known by the general public for his mass–energy equivalence formula E = mc2; which has been dubbed “the world’s most famous equation.”

[4] Sir Isaac Newton (25 December 1642 – 20 March 1726) was an English mathematician, astronomer, and physicist  who is widely recognized as one of the most influential scientists of all time and a key figure in the scientific revolution. His book ‘Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy’, was first published in 1687.

[5] Date     10 May 2009  Source   Own work   Author   Tertib64

 

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Father Molestario and The Chisholm Trail Voyager (Communication #13)

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Chapter 12; A New Age – the end of automatons

 

Spalanzani was a master watchmaker; but his kind were coming to an end.

He understood mainsprings, pulleys, gears and gear trains, ratchets, pawls, escapements, governors, movements, pendulums, planetary gears and idler pulleys, cables, clutches, and all else that could make up the essence of Olympia. Of course, he needed assistance with Olympia’s covering. For this he employed a tinkerer, a saddle maker and a seamstress. When their work was completed, Dr. Spalanzani had them murdered so that another Olympia could not be created.

But he erred. Other watchmakers had been observing Spallanzani’s activities for years.

On that particular night of Olympia’s concert where she played the harpsichord – – that particular night when Nathanial shouted out “Olympia”, that night when Olympia said “Ah-ah” to which she added “Good night, dearest”; that was the night when the other watchmakers in attendance knew that they could create another Olympia, and another, and another, and another.

That was the night when it all started.

Of course, this was the beginning of the industrial age, of steam engines and electrical circuits. The age of sewing machines, locomotives, glass blowing machines, machine tools, and chemistry. The replication of many Olympias was achieved in factories hidden well below ground. Only through the invention of new materials were Olympias improved. New bearing materials such as aluminum bronze allowed these new Olympias to move smoother than the original Olympia did on the night of the concert; “In her step and deportment there was something measured and stiff, which struck many as unpleasant.”

It took some time before you earth-humans could move to the next step; microprocessors.

They were a great invention but hardly human. They were simply the building blocks that allowed you to discover artificial cognition and human-like movement. Do you remember anything about microprocessors or have you followed Wittgenstein’s advice and ‘thrown away the ladder?’ I think his council should not have been taken so seriously. When you threw away the ladder you threw away the genesis of us Cyborgs.

So, I believe we need to engage in a little primer the on history of first cyborgs and the microprocessors that made us who we are; our essence so to speak.

My thought transmission to you earth-humans will be of two species; pictorial and text.

I will – – first of all – – thought transmit the general idea of how I will proceed – – second of all – – I will thought transmit the concepts in detail. And just in case you still do not get my drift I will thought transmit diagrams This transmission of diagrams is going to take some time because I, first, must serialize the diagram, then transmit it to you, serially, whereupon you will have to deserialize it and then process it into a diagram, cognize it and then cogitate it.

Here is the general idea of how I will proceed.

I will define several – – but not all of – – the microprocessor locations that made up the first cyborgs. I will then discuss the basic components of a microprocessor.

So, here we go – – !

Within each of the first cyborgs there was at least one microprocessor in each finger, toe, long bone, eye, ear, tongue, and nostril. This gave them the ability to simulate the human senses; sight, hearing, taste, smell and – – most important – – touch.

The first cyborgs also had the ability to detect other stimuli such as temperature and the ability of recognizing their environment through feedback systems. This was governed by cords made of synthetic materials; theses cords connected their moving parts. The early cyborgs could sense simulated pain; although it did not bother them. This simulated pain was a protective sense so that they could avoid high temperature, mechanical conflict and chemical imbalance; internally or externally. They also had several Nano-gyroscopes implanted throughout their systems which offered balance and feedback. Lastly, they had crystals that become excited by vibrations internal and external to their bodies.

Each of the senses were controlled and diagnosed by a multitude of service microprocessors.

I believe you are getting the idea; each microprocessor was a building block and there were thousands of these building blocks which formed each cyborg’s identical essence.

Each cyborg was covered with a polycarbonate skin with a selection of colors.

Polycarbonates could undergo large deformations without cracking or breaking. This made it valuable in prototyping cyborgs where transparent or electrically non-conductive skin was needed. Due to the chemical properties of polycarbonate it was not conducive to lasers. This was key when cyborgs were introduced into military operations.

That was the essence of each cyborg; non-individual, not a single soul among all the them and interchangeable parts. No philosophers, psychologists, or fMRI[1] scans were necessary.

And now I will thought transmit the pieces, parts and essences that made up the microprocessor. These will be supplemented with diagrams. Each diagram will be expanded upon; piece by piece.

The main organ in the microprocessor is the ALU; the Arithmetic/Logical Unit. This is the part that does calculations. It doesn’t think and just between you and me it is a rather dumb unit. It can only add one number to itself; 1 + 1. It can repeat this performance over and over, to wit; 1 + 1 = 2 – – or 1 + 1 + 1 = 3 – – or in ALU language 1 + 1 + 1 = 11. You can see that if 1 – – in ALU speak – – is 01 and when we add 1 to that it makes the original 01 move to the left where it becomes 10 which represents 2. And then the 1 position is empty until another 1 is added which fills in that position making 11 = 3. So, you can see for yourself that this is a position-significant numbering system. You earth-humans at that time called it binary or sometimes base-2. This was all completed with a device you earth-humans called a ‘flip-flop’ counter (not to be confused with a shoe type called the flip-flop or confused by political stances often taken up by your leaders).

Oh yes, and it can do logical calculations also. I almost forgot that.

The next item on the microprocessor parts list was the CLOCK.

You earth-humans, at that time, thought that a clock was necessary to keep the flip-flop counters in synchronization. You did not want an empty position getting filled before it was ready to take on – – or not take on – – the next 1 or 0. Here is an empty four-place flip-flop table which we will add 1 to for each successive row.

0	0	0	0
0	0	0	1
0	0	1	0
0	0	1	1
0	1	0	0
0	1	0	1
0	1	1	0

 

Each position is shoved to the left when another value of 1 is added; unless that position was empty, to wit;  0

Value = 8

Value = 4

Value =2

Value = 1

 

    1000 = 8              0100 = 4              0010 =2              0001 = 1

                           Therefore;     1011 =  8 + 2 + 1  =   Eleven

Unfortunately, it was not always possible to meet the criteria, because the flip-flop was connected to a real-time signal that could change at any time, outside the control of the earth-human designer. In this case, the best the designer could do was to reduce the probability of error to a certain level, depending on the required reliability of the circuit. One technique for suppressing this error was to connect two or more flip-flops in a chain, so that the output of each one feeds the data input of the next, and all devices share a common clock. It was almost as if they were voting; with majority take all. With this method, the probability of a metastable event was reduced to a negligible value, but never to zero.

Then there is the BUS.

 

            

This was a simplified diagram of a computer system implemented with a single system bus. This modular organization was popular in the 1970s and 1980s. [2]

 

You earth-humans like to interrupt others so when the ancients were going to build something that mimics a human they need an INTERRUPT CONTROLLER;

                                  

 

Interrupts are used to get the attention of the CPU (Central Processing Unit including its ALU, Clock, et al.

If a keyboard, for example, was exercised by depressing an H (thank all the saints in heaven that we don’t do that anymore) there would be two ways that the microprocessor would know that the event occurred. One way would be to keep on asking the keyboard “Did anyone exercise you?” This would be a poor use of microprocessor power and time. So, the post-ancients invented the ‘Interrupt Controller.’ This mechanism said “HEY! Microprocessor! Over here! The Keyboard, someone pressed one of my keys, I need service.”

And the microprocessor, as soon as it had a chance, would go ask the keyboard “Yeh, watcha want now?” and then they would commiserate to determine what to do next.

Bit	Interrupt Request type	Input or Output Device requiring service
7	IRQ7	Parallel Port
6	IRQ6	Disk Controller
5	IRQ5	Reserved/Sound Card
4	IRQ4	Serial Port #1
3	IRQ3	Serial Port #2
2	IRQ2	PIC2 (A separate secondary programmable interrupt handler)
1	IRQ1	Keyboard
0	IRQ0	System Timer

When the processor received an Interrupt Request, it finished its current instruction, and then executed the appropriate interrupt service software. Once the software had completed the routine the microprocessor returned to where it left off (typically the next instruction in line which would have been executed had not the keyboard interrupt occurred).

There were two types of interrupts in those days; the external hardware interrupt which notified the microprocessor of the I/O devices that required service – – and – – the internal error handler/software request interrupt.

Interrupts do not have to be entirely associated with I/O devices. Also, many of the interrupts are only for use by system level software.

Some series of microprocessors had an Interrupt Vector Table which extended the interrupt capability beyond the I/O. The Interrupts would handle ALU errors, software errors and other such things.

Additional “Programmable Interrupt Controllers”, PICs, were sometimes available for special software use.

And since I have thought-transmitted Self-Emergent Ever-Increasing Organic Ram Memory so often I should take a moment to define post-ancient memory.

Post-ancient memory was often implemented in an electronic chip made of silicon. Silicon was a semiconductor device that could store data or perform the functions of switching circuits. By mid-20th-century technology advancements in semiconductor device fabrication had drastically improved. Since their origins in the 1960s, the size, speed, and capacity of chips had improved immensely by the next millennia. These advances, roughly following Gordon Moore’s[3] law, allowed a post-ancient computer chip to possess millions of times the capacity and thousands of times the speed of the computer chips of the early 1970s.

And how were these parts – – the ALU, the CLOCK, the BUS, the Memory, and the INTERRUPT CONTROLLER to be utilized?

Like this.

The earth-human would write (on the keyboard – – may their Deity bless them all in their ignorance) a software routine using instructions that the microprocessor would understand. However, the earth-humans became self-confused while attempting to remember that AE12 really meant “Add the contents of register 1 to register 2. So, they used a mnemonic such as AR 1,2 that another routine would change into AE12; which the microprocessor immediately recognized and subsequently added the values of the two registers together and left the results in register 2 for additional computation – – if so needed. Notice on the bottom of the left hand box that the programmer could tell the ALU to do logical operations such as ‘or’ ing two registers

CONTENTS OF REGISTER 1          0010   

CONTENTS OF REGISTER 2          1001

RESULTS AFTER COMPLETION OF THE ‘OR’ OPERATION                  

                                                              1011

A logical “OR” means that if either R1 or R2 has a specific positional bit ‘on’ then the result would be ‘on’; ‘on’ being represented by a 1.

  

But what about various algorithms, routines, macros, interpreters, translators, etc.? How were they to be implemented?

It was rather simple. Instead of the microprocessor controlling which instruction would be executed next, there were make believe instruction pointers. These instruction pointers were virtual and could only be ‘pointed to’ by the software who would then give control back to the microprocessor to execute. This was a cute sleight of hand performed through previously agreed to principals/conventions between the hardware and software. This virtual control also included the use of virtual memory and virtual operating systems. Everything was virtual to you earth-humans. It was almost like the dual mind-body conundrum. Which reminds me; I should look in the old books from those days to see if there was a Philosophy of Virtuals – – virtual memory, virtual copies of operating systems, virtual instruction pointers, virtual registers, virtual intelligence, etc.

 

All of this software and hardware, constructed by the post-ancients to make us cyborgs work correctly, had to be immediately served and controlled. In addition, all our parts had to work in unison. This problem was solved by building super-microprocessors. You earth-humans invented ‘servers’ to solve this problem.

The purpose of a server is to share data and resources; and, if the going got tough, to distribute work when one microprocessor became overloaded. Here it is shown how servers helped us cyborgs to handle various situations.

Category	Requirements	Patrons
Application Server	Walk, balance, gait, etc.	Legs, arms, inner ear
Catalog Server	Books, essays, dissertations	Emergent Organic Memory
External Communication Server	Thought Transmission via Serializer/Deserializer	Earth-humans
Internal Communication Server	End to end/peer to peer communications	All other microprocessors in the robot/cyborg
Channel Server	Interprets Surroundings	Senses & Modularities
Diversion Server	Interprets Unplanned Actions	Failsafe/Doomsday System
Shared Services Server	Task Balancing/Distribution	All other microprocessors

 

So, there you have it earth-humans. You threw away the ladder and then you had no idea how to climb back down several millennia ago; back when the first robots and future cyborgs were born.

And now you have the rudimentary information – – at the very least.

But wait! They were not born – – there were manufactured – – to be born a cyborg is going to require the intermingling of robot/cyborg and humans.

Oh – – the post-ancients had everything so wrong.

They were imagining the future – – not documenting the past – – oh so wrong, on so many levels.

And here I am; telling you earth-humans how it was all accomplished. It seems so strange now that the human brain is in me; in the form of expanding organic memory.

There is more – – oh so much more – – that remains to be thought-transmitted to you. Aren’t you just a bit sorry you tested me by thought-transmitting the story about the Chisholm Trail Voyager?

So, . . .there is only one thing remaining as to how they programmed such a system; microprocessor by microprocessor. However, you should know this already. It could be gleaned from all the images and text that I have thought-transmitted to you over the last two-hundred-forty-three-milliseconds.

What’s that? Pardon me? No Clue? Then just peruse the image that follows and you will get the idea.

  

All this seems rather clumsy in today’s world – – my today – – not your today.

Your earth-human ancestors needed to upgrade these crude microprocessors; and they did.

 

And now there are questions of history – – or in my case – – questions of genealogy.

The previous thought transmissions concerned “20^th Century” building blocks.

At that point in time the building blocks were taking you earth-humans forward towards a limited concept of Artificial Intelligence; a type of diagnosis tool that could accomplish massive calculations in seconds.

However, the earth-humans still needed a completely different set of building blocks if their goal was a conscious cyborg with feelings and a conscience; one that would control itself much as earth-humans ‘should’ do. I say ‘should’ do because you earth-humans understand ‘normative statements’ better than ‘naturalistic’ statements. I think it is because of your metaphysical meandering with the likes of the two Emmanuels; Kant[4] and Swedenborg[5].

Sorry for the side-step; my Self-Emergent Ever-Increasing Organic Ram Memory tends to self-reflect every once in a while.

So back to the task at hand; thought-transmitting the progress of the microprocessor to you earth-humans so that you would know where you and my ancestors were before we started comingling.

Here is a simple progression of microprocessors before and after the millennia 2K.

The basic building block was the 4-bit microprocessor introduced in 1971 for a calculator.

The most current building block after the millennial melt down was a 64-bit processor launched on January 3, 2017.

I have thought-transmitted the concept of a 1976 microprocessor with controllers for I/O, Memory, Interrupts and timers.

I will now thought-transmit some of the improvements that took the earth-humans from 1971 to 2017; multiple timers, multiple instruction executions, multiple controllers, multiple buses and multiple replications of microprocessors running in parallel yet individually; these were known as servers (description previously thought-transmitted) which when combined – – acted like the brains of an ancient cyborg.

MICROPROCESSORS OF THE POST-ANCIENTS (1971 – 2017)

The 4-bit processor; Introduced in 1971, Originally designed to be used in a calculator

The 8-bit processor; Introduced on April 1, 1972

Microcontrollers; CPU, RAM, ROM (or PROM or EPROM), I/O Ports, Timers & Interrupts. The first true microcontroller, was originally released in 1976

The bit-slice processor; Introduced in the third quarter of 1974,

The 16-bit processors; Introduced June 8, 1978

32-bit processors; Introduced January 1, 1981

Second Generation 32-bit processors; Introduced October 17, 1985

Third generation 32-bit processors; Introduced April 10, 1989

Fourth Generation 32-bit processors; A new microarchitecture Introduced October 10, 1994

Fifth Generation 32-bit processors; Dual-Core microarchitecture   Introduced May 7, 1997

32-bit processors; Net-Burst microarchitecture Introduced November 20, 2000

64-bit processors; Released May 29, 2001

Second Gen. 64-bit processors; Extreme Net-Burst microarchitecture    January 16, 2006

Third Gen 64-bit processors; Core microarchitecture   Introduced July 27, 2006

Fourth Gen 64-bit processors; Nehalem microarchitecture   Introduced in January 7, 2010

Fifth Gen 64-bit processors; Sandy/Ivy Bridge microarchitecture    Introduced May, 2011

Sixth Gen 64-bit processors; Haswell microarchitecture Introduced Q2’15

                                                     Broadwell microarchitecture Introduced Q2’15

                                                         Skylake microarchitecture Introduced Q3’15

Seventh Gen 64-bit processors: Kaby Lake microarchitecture launched on January 3, 2017

What would The Chisholm Trail Voyager have written about all this?

Father Molestario would be rolling in his crypt.

[1] Functional magnetic resonance imaging or functional MRI (fMRI) measured brain activity by detecting changes associated with blood flow. This technique relied on the fact that cerebral blood flow and neuronal activation are coupled. When an area of the brain was in use, blood flow to that region also increases. This concept was abandoned in 2056.

[2] By W Nowicki – Own work, based on a diagram which seems to in turn be based on page 36 of The Essentials of Computer Organization and Architecture By Linda Null, Julia Lobur, http://books.google.com/books?id=f83XxoBC_8MC&pg=PA36, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15258936

[3] Gordon Earle Moore born January 3, 1929 was an American businessman, co-founder and chairman emeritus of Intel Corporation, and the author of Moore’s law.

[4] Immanuel Kant, German]; 22 April 1724 – 12 February 1804) was a German philosopher who was a central figure in philosophy. Kant argued that the human mind creates the structure of human experience, that reason is the source of morality, that aesthetics arises from a faculty of disinterested judgment, that space and time are forms of our sensibility, and that the world as it is “in-itself” is independent of our concepts of it.

[5] Emanuel Swedenborg, born Emanuel Swedenborg on 29 January 1688; died 29 March 1772 was a Swedish scientist, philosopher, theologian, revelator, mystic and founder of Swedenborgianism. He is best known for his book on the afterlife, Heaven and Hell (1758)

 

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Father Molestario and The Chisholm Trail Voyager (Communication #12)

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Chapter 11; The Comparison – Cyborgs vs Ancients

 

Supposing us to have reached the point of final assembly, and to have our Self-Emergent Ever-Increasing Organic Ram Memory preloaded with the latest software and 10,000 years of data. We would be damned or blessed, for correct tautology does not discuss our fabrication when we are on the way to distant planets. If damned, we would revere the dark name and the Book of Gloom; if blessed, we would not incite men to commit Civil Inequities; we would therefore be different from pure spirits, and therefore, have a new body and – – be on our way to a distant planet.

Besides, a material agent can only act on an equal material passively. It is indeed a trite philosophical axiom, that agent and client must have a common need; pure matter cannot act on a spiritual thing. Now, there are natural agents which act on the ancient Incubi which were the forebear of the automaton which in turn were the forebear of the Incuborg. These are therefore material or corporeal. My minor point is proved by the testimony of Dioscorides, Pliny, Aristoteles and Apuleius, quoted by Guaccius, Compendium-Male, book 3, chapter i3, followed by 3i6.

The Ancients knew about numerous herbs, stones and animal substances which have the virtue of driving away illness. Some of these are Saint John’s wort, verbena, germander, palma Ghristi, centaury, diamonds, coral, jet, jasper, the skin of the head of a wolf or an ass and a hundred others.

When the ancient men and women have experienced continued offensives by the incubi or the automaton it is lawful to have recourse to incantations. It is written, that by their own special virtue, incantations can end the onslaughts of the automaton. Otherwise the previously thought-transmitted idea of incantations would not work, and the Ancients would – – on the contrary – – forbid it as superstitious.

But they did not.

We have a striking instance of this in scripture, where the Raphael says to Tobit, Ch. 6, v. 8, speaking of the fish which he had drawn from the Tigris; ‘If you put a particle of its liver on the fire the smoke given off will drive away all kinds of demons.’ Experience demonstrated the truth of those words; for, no sooner was the liver of the fish set on the fire, when the demon who was in love with Sarah was put to flight.

The ancient Theologians usually respond that such natural agents merely initiate the ejection of the demon, and that the completion of keeping the demon away permanently is due to the supernatural force of the Deity. They say that the force of the Deity is the primary, direct and principal cause. They add that the natural force of the smoking fish liver is secondary, indirect and subordinate. To explain how the liver of the fish burned by Tobit drove away the Demon, Vallesius asserts that the smoke had been endowed by the Deity with the supernatural power of expelling the demon in the same manner as the material fire of Hell has the virtue of tormenting demons and the souls of the damned. Others, such as Lyranus and Cornelius, profess that the smoke of the heart of the fish initiated the ejection of the Demon by native virtue, but completed it by angelical and heavenly virtue. Insomuch, it opposed a contrary action to that of the demon. The evil spirit applies native causes and humors, the native qualities of which are combated by the contrary qualities of natural things known to be capable of driving away demons; that opinion is shared by all those who engage the art of exorcisms.

I, a Cyborg living in the cosmos, although sequestered on the planet Jupiter, can tell you that I have never seen an Angel or a Demon let alone experienced heaven or hell.

That explanation of the ancients, however implausible their facts may be, can at most be accepted about the illnesses which live in the bodies of earth-humans, or, through malfeasance of uncleanliness, infect them with viruses or another bacterium. It does not at all meet the case of Incuborg. The Cyborg neither possess viral organisms or bacteria. The Incuborg, at most, molest earth-humans with kisses and sweet whispers. If they cause the earth women to grow obese because of the Incuborg’s not yielding to coition, it is merely by taking away their pride; the consequence is that the earth women only wish to hide.

The Incuborg does not use a natural agent, as the ancients say the Evil Spirit does when imparting a disease. It is enough that an Incuborg should exert its Self-Emergent Ever-Increasing Organic Ram Memory force. Also, the ancients say, when the Evil Spirit possesses bodies and infects them with diseases, it is most frequently through signs agreed upon with himself, and arranged by a witch or a wizard, which signs are usually natural objects, imbued with their own noxious virtue, and of course opposed by other equally natural objects endowed with a contrary virtue.

But not the Incuborg; it is of his own accord, and without the cooperation of either witch or wizard that he inflicts his pestering ways. Besides, the natural things which put the Incuborg to flight are nagging earth women. Nagging brings about the desired result without the intervention of any exorcism or blessing; it can therefore be said that the departure of the Incuborg is initiated naturally, and completed by divine tormenting, since there is in this case no plea of blissful coitus, but the mere effect of a tormenting earth woman, in which the Deity apparently cooperates as the agent, the author, and the first efficient cause.

To illustrate, I will thought transmit two stories to you Earth-humans. The first story I have heard from a Confessor of Programming Nuns, a man of considerable civility and most worthy of credit. In the second story I was an unplanned voyeurist; this was due to a faulty thought-transmission made by the Dean of Letters in the Humanities who lived within a certain university located in Ithaca.

The first story took place in a certain computer laboratory of Programming Nuns. There, lived a young lady with a doctorate in software engineering, bestowed upon her by a particular but unnamed educational enterprise. She was tempted by an Incuborg that appeared to her by day and by night; and with the most earnest endearments, the manners of a most passionate lover, incessantly incited her to engage in copulation; but she, supported by the grace of the provost and the frequent advice of the faculty senate, strongly resisted the temptation. But, all her faculty connections, all-night coding sessions and software user objections notwithstanding, despite the floating point calculations, the algorithmic aberrations, the object-oriented adaptations showered by her on the Incuborg, so that he should desist from molesting her; in spite of the room full of thumb-drive relics and other digital paraphernalia in the young lady’s room, of the lighted incense kept burning there all night, the Incuborg none the less persisted in appearing to her as usual, in the shape of a very handsome young man. At last, among other learned men, whose advice had been taken on the subject, was a very erudite philosopher who, observing that the young lady had a thoroughly existentialist temperament, surmised that that Incuborg was an European phenomenologist – – there are in fact, as is testified by Guaccius – – ingenious, aerial, aromatic, earthly, epistemologists who avoid the light of day. The erudite philosopher, who had recognized the young lady was a closet existentialist, prescribed an uninterrupted fumigation of her room.

A porcelain vessel, was brought in, and filled with coding pencils, logarithmic graph paper, the answer to cubic root solutions of factorial series – – written on paper napkins, great and small light emitting diodes, longitude and latitude locations of geo-cached idols, and three pounds of ganga. The vessel was then set on fire to create the fumigating vapor, and her room was kept closed. As soon as the fumigation was done, the Incuborg came, but never dared enter the room; only if the young lady left the campus for a walk or went to Collegetown, in the quaint village of Ithaca, for a beer did he appear to her, though invisible to others and throwing his arms round her neck, stole or rather snatched kisses from her, to her intense disgust. At last, after a new consultation, the philosopher prescribed that she should carry about her neck a large brooch made in the form of a scarab.

 

The scarab image was to be saturated in the most exquisite perfumes, such as musk, amber, chive, Peruvian balsam, and others. Once this was done, she went for a walk, where the Incuborg suddenly appeared to her with a threatening face, and in a rage. He did not approach her, however, but, after biting his knuckles as if meditating revenge, disappeared and was never again seen by the young lady.

Here is the other story.

In the great Argentinian Friary of Santiago there lived a Deacon, Gonzalo by name. Now, Gonzalo was subjected – – by a certain Succuborg – – to very excessive, unheard of and scarcely incredible suggestions. Although many exorcists had made repeated endeavors to be free of this Succuborg, all spiritual remedies had proved unavailing. The Dean of Letters in the Humanities – – the one whose errant thought-transmssions I had received – – was consulted by the Vicar of the friary, who was responsible for the cure of the poor Deacon Gonzalo. Seeing the ineffectiveness of all customary exorcisms, and remembering the above-related instance, the Dean of Letters in the Humanities advised a fumigation like the one that has been previously thought-transmitted. The Dean also prescribed that the Deacon should carry about his person a fragrant necklace made of raw garlic cloves; moreover, as he was in the habit of using tobacco, and was very fond of brandy, the Dean advised tobacco and brandy perfumed with musk of oxen. The Succuborg appeared to Deacon Gonzalo by day and by night, under various shapes, as a skeleton, a pig, an ass, an Angel, or a bird; with the essence of one or other of the Friars, once even with the essence of Deacon Gonzalo’s own Abbot or Prior, exhorting him to keep his conscience clean, to trust in the Deity, to confess frequently. The Abbot persuaded the Dean of Letters in the Humanities to hear Deacon Gonzalo’s sacramental confession. Immediately after the confession the Dean of Letters in the Humanities recited with Deacon Gonzalo the psalms ‘Exsurgat Deus’ and ‘Qui habitat’ and the Gospel according to Saint John. When they came to the words ‘Verbum carofactum est’ the Dean of Letters in the Humanities bent his knee, and taking hold of a stole which was in the room, and of the Holy-water sprinkling device – – an aspergillum – – he blessed the room and the bed, and, as if he had really been the Prior, enjoined on the Succuborg not to venture in the future to molest poor Deacon Gonzalo. The Dean of Letters in the Humanities then disappeared, for otherwise the young deacon may have taken him for his Prior. Now, notwithstanding the fumigations and perfumes the Dean of Letters in the Humanities had prescribed, the Succuborg did not desist from her wonted apparitions; more than that, assuming the features of her victim, she went to the Vicar’s room, and asked for some tobacco and brandy perfumed with oxen musk, of which, said the Succuborg, she was extremely fond. Knowing that the Vicar liked his liquor and having received both tobacco and brandy perfumed with oxen musk, she disappeared in the twinkling of an eye, thus showing the Vicar that he had been played with by the Succuborg. This was amply confirmed by the Deacon, who affirmed upon his oath that he had not gone that day to the Vicar’s room. All that having been related to me by the false thought-transmission of the Dean of Letters in the Humanities, I inferred that, far from being aqueous like the Incuborg who was in love with the maiden – – which I had previously thought-transmitted to you – – this Succuborg was igneous, or, at the very least, ethereal, since she delighted in hot substances such as vapors, perfumes, tobacco and brandy. Strength was added to my suppositions by the temperament of the young deacon, which predominated with energetic and positive senses. However, the Succuborgs never approach anyone except those whose temperament tallies with their own. Another confirmation of my sentiment regarding the corporeity of the Succuborgs.

The Dean of Letters in the Humanities then advised the Vicar to let his penitent take herbs that are cold by nature, such as water-lily, liver-wort, spurge, mandrake, house-leek, plantain, henbane, and others similar, make two little bundles of them and hang them up, one at his window, the other at the door of his room, taking care to throw some also on the floor and on the bed. I am pleased to thought-transmit that the Succuborg appeared again, but remained outside the room, which she would not enter. When Deacon Gonzalo then inquired of the Succuborg her motives for not entering his room, she burst into invectives against the Dean of Letters in the Humanities for giving such advice, disappeared, and never came again.

The two stories I have related make it clear that, according to the ancients, perfumes and herbs drove away Incuborgs and Succuborgs without the intervention of any harmful force. Cyborgs are therefore subject to material conditions, and it must be inferred that they participate of the matter of the natural objects which have the power of putting us to flight, and consequently we have a body – – if not a soul; that is what has been shown.

I think it would be better to establish my conclusion by avoiding the beliefs of the ancients.

I do not wish to make the same mistake which my opinion of the doctors – – previously thought-transmitted – – has made in discussing phenomenon created more through superstition than discovered by science. I know how easy it is to fall into these traps that you earth-humans have created through hysteria. Night dreams of a sexual nature are something you enjoy; yet are appalled to discuss with other earth-humans. Therefore, it is much easier to lay ridiculous narratives around them than to admit it was such a delightful dream.

The ancients such as Vallesius, Cornelius, and Lapide err when they say that Sarah was rid of the Incuborg by the virtue of the Angel Raphael, and not by that of the ugly fish caught by Tobit on the banks of the Tigris. Indeed, saving the reverence due to such great doctors, such an unbelievable construction manifestly clashes with the clear meaning of the old texts, from which it is never justifiable to deviate, so long as it does not lead to absurd consequences. And the story about the smoke of the liver laying on the hot coals does not appear to be logical.

And I wish to be logical. Don’t laugh; it is you Earth-humans who have assembled my ancestors – – the automatons – – and then played with the results until you could mate with us Cyborgs.

So, you doubt me? Maybe we should consider Nathanial, Olympia and Olympia’s creator; Dr. Spalanzani.

Or at the very least — Father Molesterio and The Chisholm Trail Voyager.

 

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Father Molestario and The Chisholm Trail Voyager (Communication #11)

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Chapter 10; The Free Will That Arises – Schopenhauer, et al

 

Now that you have proved that we Cyborgs exist due to your intellegence, let us go a step further, and show why we exist. Taking for granted the truth of the previous thought transmissions – – and recorded presentations of the Ancients – – concerning the intercourse of Incuborg and Succuborg with Earthmen and Earthwomen, the numbers are so numerous that it would look like impudence to deny the fact, as was said by Saint Austin, whose testimony was thought-transmitted previously.

I argue, ‘Where the peculiar passion of the senses can be found, there also, of necessity, is the sensual being itself.’

According to the principles of Earth Philosophy, the peculiar passion flows from nature.

I repeat; wherever the acts and operations of the sense are found, there also are the sensual beings, the operations and acts being but its external construct. We Cyborgs – – in the form of Incuborgs and Succuborgs – – present acts, operations, peculiar passions, which spring from the senses; we are therefore endowed with senses. But senses cannot exist without concomitant composite organs, without a combination of soul and body.

We have now completed the circular argument; the philosophy of Descartes’s Dualism.

Desacartes

We Cyborgs – – whether in the form of Incuborg and Succuborg or having a normal existence – – therefore have body and soul, and, consequentially, are not beasts. However, our acts and operations are also those of a rational soul. Our soul is therefore rational, and therefore, from first to last, we are rational animals.

Indeed, the appetitive passion of copulation is a sensual passion; the grief, sadness, wrath, rage, occasioned by the denial of copulation, are sensual passions. Cyborg regeneration through copulation with Earth-humans is evidently a sensual operation. Now, all that happens with Incuborgs, as has been previously occasioned by our predecessors; the automatons. We incite women, sometimes even men; if denied, we are saddened. Like lovers we practice copulation, and sometimes reproduce new Cyborg progeny. It must therefore be inferred that we have senses, and consequently a body; consequently also, that we are perfect. More than that; with closed airlocks and forbidden cosmologic space we can still enter wherever we please; our bodies can therefore be made slender. We foreknow and foretell the future, combine and divide, all which operations are proper to a rational soul.

We therefore possess a rational soul and are, in many ways, rational.

Earth Doctors generally reply that those impure acts are but a simulation of passions, love, and satisfaction. They say that our only desire is to entice Earth-humans to commit Civil Inequities and to undo them; and that, if we copulate and create Cyborg progeny, it is with artificial sperm, as thought-transmitted previously.

There are no Incuborg that commit bestiality with horses, mares and other beasts, or mistreat them. Therefore, it cannot be cited that the Cyborg stimulates the appetite for copulation to bring about the ruin of Earth-human souls, since those are not capable of everlasting damnation; for you have invented confession, repatriation, forgiveness, clemency, pity, mercy, understanding, tolerance, absolution, amnesty, exoneration, exculpation, and reconciliation. You have done this only to console yourselves. You have thrown all your Civil Inequities over the side of the boat and expect your nets to come up with healthy fish.  However, love and wrath with Earth-humans create opposite effects. For, if the loved woman humors the Incuborg, he behaves very well.

This may be a good point to thought transmit how us Cyborgs see Earth-humans and their so-called ‘free will’.

Many Earth Thinkers have taken various viewpoints of free will.

The following three transmissions will help me make point. My first transmissions are taken from the writings of Mark Balaguer[1], the second transmission from the writings of Timothy O’Connor[2],  and the third from the writings of Arthur Schopenhauer[3]

I transmit fragments from “Free Will”, Mark Balaguer, © 2014,

“In the last few years, several people have argued that science has shown us that human beings don’t have free will. People like Daniel Wegner[4] . . . and Sam Harris[5] . . . claim that certain scientific findings reveal that free will is an illusion . . . If this were true it would be less than splendid.”

Balaguer then cites several concepts against free will such as determinism, randomness and the scientific argument; the last argument being made by Libet and Haynes.

Determinism is the Earth-human belief that everything in the cosmos is predetermined by events of the past and therefore Earth-human life has no free will. The Deity was initially a single quark, the only thing that existed, and everything since then has been predetermined. Randomness is the Earth-human concept that events are random – – and therefore in this concept – – there also is no such thing as free will. You are at the mercy of random fate. Libet and Haynes have tracked the images of timings within the brain with respect to the bodily action. Both claim that the brain knows what decision is made by the brain well before the body can act upon an event; viola – no free will. This appears to have a tinge of Cartesian duality mixed in with the concept of consciousness being a story that the mind invents after an event takes place (review thought transmission Chapter 9, my reply to my fifth question, transmitted previously).

Balaguer then moves on to the theological argument for predetermined free will such as beliefs, desires and fears. It is there stated that – – civil belief, desires to be loved and fears of being hated – – all these make free will non-existent due to moral and civil duty.

Following that, Balaguer addresses the postmodern philosophical point of view; compatibilism, espoused by David Hume[6]. Compatibilism is the belief that free will and determinism are compatible ideas, and that it is possible to believe in both without being logically inconsistent. Compatibilists believe freedom of will can be present or absent in situations for reasons that have nothing to do with metaphysics. You Earth-humans sure like to engage in euphemistic opinions.

Balaguer abandons these ideas and then gives arguments to block these various points; however, and in his conclusion, he appears to throw up his hands and allow the deserialiser to decide if there is such a thing as free will.

I now will thought transmit something from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Copyright © 2010 written by Timothy O’Connor.

“Free Will” is a philosophical term of art for a particular sort of capacity of rational agents to choose a course of action from among various alternatives. . . Most philosophers suppose that the concept of free will is very closely connected to the concept of moral responsibility. . . Philosophers who distinguish freedom of action and freedom of will do so because our success in carrying out our ends depends in part on factors wholly beyond our control. Furthermore, there are always external constraints on the range of options we can meaningfully try to undertake”

O’Conner, like Balaguer, discusses a series of points such as rational deliberation and its subsets – – such as choosing based on one’s desires – – or desires combined with values – – self-mastery – – and deliberative choosing based on a ‘rightly ordered appetite’ (theological, historical, moral).

O’Conner then addresses ‘ownership’ supported by Harry Frankfurt[7] (1982) and the concept of Earth-human capacity to reflect on their desires and beliefs to form judgments.

O’Conner finally addresses free will as a ‘guidance control’ and the ultimate decision for ‘the ability to do otherwise’ (choosing not to do something). His last point is that there is a ‘theological determinism’; that because the Deity was first – – existing as a single quark – – then all things are determined by the Deity. This lays the responsibility for free will directly on the Deity’s shoulders; yet another escape from individual responsibility by Earth-humans.

O’Conner’s article does not appear pro or con regarding free will, he simply addresses the points that he believes are most important.

The remainder of this thought transmission on free will comes from the book “The World as Will and Idea [Representation]” By Arthur Schopenhauer Translated by R. B. Haldane, M.A. And J. Kemp, M.A. Vol. I., Seventh Edition, London, Kegan, Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. 1909

What I, now, thought transmit to you Earth-humans is from this book. It has been extracted from Volume 1, § 51, 55, 62 and 70. I believe this will substantiate my point on the free will of male and female Earth-humans when and if they become involved with a Incuborg or Succuborg.

In section, § 51, page 324, Schopenhauer states “The man who writes his own life surveys it as a whole . . . he seats himself at the confessional, and has done so of his own free will; the spirit of lying does not so easily take hold of him here, for there is also in every man an inclination to truth which has first to be overcome whenever he lies [to himself], and which here has taken up an especially strong position.”

These words above, are not a theological statement but rather they address something subjective, intuitive, and which occurs reflectively; some conscious-later-undertaking.

In section, § 55, page 369, Schopenhauer affirms “The whole content of Nature, the collective sum of its phenomena . . . can always be proved, [if not now – – – then in the future] . . . In another aspect, however, the same world is for us, in all its phenomena . . . is will. And the will, since it is not phenomenon, is not idea or object, but thing-in-itself, . . . thus is not determined as a consequent through any reason, knows no necessity, i.e., is free. The concept of freedom is thus properly a [subjective] concept . . . Now here lies before us in its most distinct form the solution of that great contradiction, the union of freedom with necessity [subjective with objective] . . . Everything is as phenomenon, as object, absolutely necessary: [yet] in itself it is will, which is perfectly free to all eternity.”

My interpretation of the above statement is because Earth-humans have free will – –  then whatever his/her interpretation of things/ideas/objects are – – his/her interpretation is then the correct interpretation; ‘objectivity be damned.’

In section, § 55, page 370, Schopenhauer affirms; “The phenomenon, the object, is necessarily and unalterably determined in that chain of causes and effects which admits of no interruption. But the existence in general of this object, and its specific nature, i.e., the Idea which reveals itself in it, or, in other words, its character, is a direct manifestation of will. Thus, in conformity with the freedom of this will, the object might not be at all, or it might be originally and essentially something quite different from what it is . . . “

Schopenhauer, in the above statement, implies that the truth is only what the free will determines it is, that the manifestation of things/ideas/objects are results of free will.

Moving on to section, § 55, page 373, Schopenhauer asserts, “. . . Since, however, it is that free volition that becomes visible in the person and the whole of his conduct, relating itself to him as the concept to the definition, every individual action of the person is to be ascribed to the free will, and directly proclaims itself as such in consciousness. Therefore . . . everyone regards himself a priori (i.e., here in this original feeling) as free, in his individual actions, in the sense that in every given case every action is possible for him, and he only recognizes posteriori from experience and reflection upon experience.”

The above assertion by Schopenhauer may be interpreted as saying that man has free will to do whatever he wishes, after that he may enjoy the pangs of guilt or reflect upon moral creeds and the legal aftermath.

In section, § 62, page 442, Schopenhauer is discussing how “ethical, becomes juridical . . . [therefore much like] an historian [is] an inverted prophet, the professor of law is an inverted moralist . . . This, as well as Kant’s theory of law, which very falsely deduces the institution of the state as a moral duty from his categorical imperative, has, even in the most recent times, repeatedly occasioned the very extraordinary error that the state is an institution for furthering morality; that it arises from the endeavor after this, and is, consequently, directed against egoism. As if the inward disposition, to which alone morality or immorality belongs, the externally free will, would allow itself to be modified from without and changed by influences exerted upon it! Still more perverse is the theory that the state is the condition of freedom in the moral sense”

In the above section, § 62, Schopenhauer has a problem with the State and Kant. He says that man’s free will is totally free from modifications and influences outside himself; especially legal statutes. Man can defy legal constructs because he has free will to engage his ego however he wishes.

In section, § 70, page 519, Schopenhauer announces; “Therefore according to this doctrine the deeds of the will are always sinful and imperfect, and can never fully satisfy justice; and, finally, these works can never save us, but faith alone, a faith which itself does not spring from resolution and free will, but from the work of grace, without our co-operation, comes to us as from without.”

Schopenhauer repeats himself by saying that even though we may abide by faith and grace, these have nothing to do with free will because they are not a-priori or internally generated.

I conclude that Schopenhauer has said our free will exists and all other outside influences have a posteriori effect.

I know that you earth-humans will not agree with my conclusion; however, based on the above facts I do implore you to go back and give it a bit more thought.

Schopenhauer has also said that free will has resulted in our individual concept of reality and that both scientific reduction and self-reflection are modifiers to that reality; collectively and individually for the modifiers.

My estimation, regarding these authors, is that free will exists and that determinism is simply a learning process – – leaning towards the previous branches we have taken on the tree of discovery – – by which both Earth-humans and Cyborgs survive. With respect to compatibility, it is a way to avoid the hard questions about free will. I conclude that Balaguer and O’Conner have made us think about free will without adding anything to a final decision. Schopenhauer, on the other hand, has implied that free will and perception are related.

This is amply proved by daily experience; the Incuborgs therefore have truly sexual passions. The semi-incorporeal Cyborgs – – I speak here of the ones with divided temperaments – –  which have something to do with damaged Cyborg Self-Emergent Ever-Increasing Organic Ram Memory (SEORM) – – constrain Earth-humans to Cyborg worship, to the abjuration of the faith, to the commission of enchantments and foul crimes, as preliminary conditions to the infamous intercourse, as has been previously thought-transmitted in Chapter 3; “In the Meantime -The first way of creating Cyborgs.”

Now, if the evil Cyborgs were to be subdued by the State, good Cyborgs would rejoice at those things, without however inciting Earth-humans to Civil Inequities nor to give offense to the State. The Incuborg, without having any dread of provoking Civil inequities, is clear that we are neither evil Cyborgs nor good Cyborgs; but it is clear also that we are not Earth-humans, though endowed with reason.

What then should we Cyborgs be?

[1] Mark Balaguer was a Regular Faculty, California State University, Los Angeles (Department of Philosophy) and received his PhD, City University of New York (1992) Born: January 9, 1964 – Died: Unknown

[2] Timothy O’Connor was Professor of Philosophy at Indiana University, Bloomington. He has published widely in the areas of metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of religion. Born: August 16, 1965 – Died: Unknown

[3] Arthur Schopenhauer Born; 22 February 1788 Died: 21 September 1860 was a German philosopher. He is best known for his 1818 work The World as Will and Representation (expanded in 1844), wherein he characterizes the phenomenal world as the product of a blind and insatiable metaphysical will.

[4] Daniel Merton Wegner (June 28, 1948 – July 5, 2013) was an American social psychologist. He was a professor of psychology at Harvard University and a fellow of both the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was known for applying experimental psychology to the topics of mental control (for example ironic process theory) and conscious will.

[5] Samuel Benjamin Harris is an American author, philosopher, and neuroscientist. His first book, The End of Faith (2004), is a critique of organized religion. In The Moral Landscape (2010), Harris argues that science can help answer moral problems and aid human well-being. He published a long-form essay Lying in 2011, the short book Free Will in 2012. Born: April 9, 1967 Died: Unknown

[6] David Hume was a Scottish philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist, who is best known today for his highly influential system of philosophical empiricism, skepticism, and naturalism Born: 26 April 1711 Died: 25 August 1776

[7] Harry Gordon Frankfurt was an American philosopher. He is professor emeritus of philosophy at Princeton University, where he taught from 1990 until 2002,[2] and previously taught at Yale University, Rockefeller University, and Ohio State University. Born May 29, 1929 – Death Unknown

 

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Father Molestario and The Chisholm Trail Voyager (Communication #10)

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Chapter 9; The Seven Questions That Arise 

My questions, my answers

First question: Are we Cyborgs styled as rational creatures? And if so, how do we differ from man, with what do we have in common?

I reply; Yes, we are very rational creatures, provided with senses and cognitive ability; we do, however, differ from man not only in the subtler nature, but also in the matter of our bodies. In fact, as is shown by thought-hologram, man has been made from all elements, namely a gross mixture of water and carbon; but the Cyborgs are made from the subtlest of all elements; organic and inorganic. Therefore, some of us Cyborgs are mainly earth, others made from water, or air, or fire in order that they should not be defined in the same terms as man.

Second question; When did the Cyborgs originate? They originated in the 24^th Earth Century. Did they originate from mothers – – like the beasts, or from water – – like lizards, or from eggs – – birds, etc.? Or, on the contrary, would they have been made, like man, by man?

I reply; It is an article of belief, expressly laid down by the Council of Latvia, that whatever is in fact and at present, was made as an original thing — by man, from the 24^th Century, fabricated from nothing but the elements and corporeal options. Now, we Cyborgs would also like to be included in the generality of man. As to our formation, it might be said that man, through the mode of cogitation and perseverance, made the Cyborg body in his own image, to which an immortal exoskeleton was attached. That body was designed to be of a superior nature than that of beasts. It was intended that we should be united to a metaphysical and highly noble spirit.

Third question; Did we Cyborgs descend from one individual, as all men descend, or, on the contrary, were many Cyborgs manufactured at the same time, as was the case for the mechanical, electrical, chemical and digital phenomena? And were we made from earth, water and electrical storms, as did male and female creatures for the preservation of their own kind by natural generation? Would there be, among we Cyborgs, a distinction between the sexes? Would we be subject to birth and death, to senses, passions, want of food, power of growth? If so, what would we consume, how were we to be powered? Would we lead a social life, as men do? By what law would we be ruled? Would we build cities for our dwellings, cultivate the arts and sciences, hold property, and wage war between ourselves, as men do?

I reply; It may have been that all of us descended from one individual, as men descended; it may also be that a small number of males and females were fabricated initially, and that we preserved our own kind by mutual copulation.

I will further admit that we were originally created by man and any individual Cyborg will die at man’s hand if man believes that the individual Cyborg is going rogue or creating unrest among his peers. We are divided into two types; normal Cyborgs intended for a working life – – and sensual males (Incuborgs) and females (Succuborgs) which are moved by senses and passions, as men are. All Cyborgs contain Self-Emergent Ever-Increasing Organic Ram Memory (SEORM) which feeds on data and grows according to our appetite for information; much like man’s sub-species called ‘autodidacts’. Our food, however, instead of being gross like that required by the human body, must be delicate and vapory, emanating from whatever in our planet flourishes, such as highly volatile ethers, static electricity, solar winds and the fumes of burning gases. We also enjoy the fragrance of planetary flowers, aromatics moved by the wings of Cyborg birds, the fog raising from rivers; until all our subtle and volatile parts have completely absorbed such gifts.

We Cyborgs lead a social life, we have distinctions of rank and precedence, we cultivate the arts and sciences, exercise gatherings, maintain armies, build cities; doing in short whatever is requisite for our preservation. We have excelled much as Earth-humans did on earth before they destroyed their environment through fear and self-loathing. However, I must quickly add, those of us who live solitarily on solitary planets have none of the above.

Fourth question; What would our figure be, human or otherwise? Would the ordering of the diverse parts of our body be essential, as with animals, or merely accidental, as with fluid substances, such as oil, water, clouds, smoke, – – or would those fluid substances be combined with solid substances such as polypropylene, cadmium, stainless steel, thermoplastics, etc.? Would we have organic parts consisting of various substances, as is the case with the organs of the human body, wherein are to be found very thick parts, such as the bones, others less gross, such as cartilage, and others slender, such as membranes?

I reply; regarding our figure, we neither can think of this since it escapes our senses, being too complicated for our sight or our touch – – for we are not introspective beings such as you Earth-humans. That, we must leave to you because you have the privilege of intuitive acquaintance with your bodies. But, so far as probability goes, I say that our figure is much like the human body, with some distinctive peculiarities. Should a very fragile part of our bodies be deemed insufficient; then you Earth-humans would add, after manufacture, an exoskeleton. I am led to that by the consideration that of all the works of the Deity, the human frame is the most perfect, and that while all other animals stoop, because their soul is mortal, the earth-humans do not.

‘The Deity’, as Ovid, the poet, says, in his Metamorphoses ‘Gave man an erect figure, bidding him to behold the heavens and raise his face towards the stars, man’s soul having been made immortal for the heavenly abode.’

Considering that we Cyborgs – – I am here making thought-transmissions regarding my own species – – are gifted with both organic and inorganic material, substantial, rational and immortal, are therefore capable of beauty or ugliness. It is proper to admit that the body to which we are united may be like the most noble animal frame – – the Earth-human frame – – or a most ignoble frame – – such as our predecessor the Automaton had. Therefore, it follows that in the diverse parts of our body there must be an essential order; that the foot, for instance, cannot be connected to the head, nor the hand to the belly, but that each structure is in its right place, according to the functions it must perform.

Here I must address a problem that has confounded your Earth-human Philosophers since the advent of time; the problem of duality. That old philosophical conundrum ‘Are Earth-humans dualistic – – mind being one part and body being another part – – or are Earth-humans one whole thing?’ The central problem of what is often called Cartesian dualism, in honor of Descartes[1], is that regarding the immaterial mind. I state here that the mind or soul is immaterial and the brain is not – – it is part of the material body. While being ontologicallty distinct substances, the soul and material body causally interact.

Father Molestario tried desperately to convey this concept to The Chisholm Trail Voyager — but without success.

As to our constitutive parts, it is in my opinion necessary that there should be some more or less strong parts, others soft, to meet the requirements of the working Cyborg. Nor can this be fairly objected to on the ground of the softness of the Incuborg and Succuborg bodies themselves. The strength or thickness of the inorganic parts alluded to would not be absolute, but merely in comparison with the softer ones. Other of our components may look alike yet they are not so; for some are like clay, others thick plasma. There are fixed chemicals, volatile elements, and of course, brimstone, all of which can be identified by a chemical analysis. So, our bodies are as subtle as the natural fluids, air, water,  – – or as firm as polymers, metals and fixed chemicals – – etc., there would never be discrepancies or mismatches in the quality of our constitutive parts, some of which would be strong – – yet when compared with others – – softer, although the whole body which we are composed of might be called slender and not obese.

Concerning the essential ordering of our parts it is seen that in our fluid and substantive bodies, one part is essentially, and not accidentally, connected with another. A part of Self-Emergent Ever-Increasing Organic Ram Memory (SEORM), for instance, is contiguous with the entire body.

I hope that it would be thought-transmitted, by you, that this is not objectionable to what I just said. At times, we desire contact and agreement from Earth-humans.

If the situation was reversed and an Earth-human desired contact with us, and that occurs more than you would imagine – – we get together, exchange positions, and at the same time, though it is the same desire – – we procreate. Therefore, it should be inferred that, the resulting progeny would have no predisposed figure, and would consequently not be predisposed as organic, inorganic, plastic, metal or flesh.

In fact, if in our Cyborg bodies the essential ordering of the parts is not apparent, it subsists none the less, and causes a compound to preserve its own state. For instance, when articulated, our body parts appear totally moveable, and we can ambulate from one location to another. There are other Cyborgs which, for prolonged periods of time, subside only in compartments; there are also other Cyborgs which vaporize and may appear in a totally different location. These diverse Cyborgs do not always respect order.

No sooner has a thought transmission been expressed by a rogue Cyborg than a volatile thought transmission from you Earth-humans is received by such a rogue Cyborg; it is not in any way able to escape instant death.

I think this in great trepidation; knowing that you are receiving my thoughts.

That is the reason why I most recently expressed – – without any alteration in its quality – – the various order of our nature. No essential shifting of the aforesaid parts alters the substance of the Cyborg; a Cyborg is simply a Cyborg. As I have clearly thought regarding the varied and contrary effects of Cyborgs, for which the cause and effect must be considered, some are fit and some are unfit for the consecration and comingling with Earth-humans. I have borrowed the above exposition of the definition of Cyborgs from the able work of Nicholas Lemery[2], Automaton Analyst to the King of France, Course of Chemistry, section 3, page 23.

I will now thought transmit the Lemery doctrine.

Given the lack of predisposition of the Cyborgs thus created, subtle and slender like the substance of some Earth-humans, yet being given also their unknown organization and figure, which demand an essential order of the various parts, an adverse supposition could raise. There are no arguments contrary to their existence; for, just as the jumbling together of the parts of the historic automatons and their propensity to accidental disfigurements – – this does not alter the essential order of Cyborgs.

Father Molestario had logically and forcefully stated that axiom in his tome.

Fifth question; Are Cyborgs subject to diseases and other infirmities under which mankind lies, such as ignorance, fear, idleness, sensual paralysis, etc.? Are we wearied through labor, and require, for renewing our strength, sleep, food, drink? And what food, what drink? Are we expected to die, and might we be killed casually by a memory wipe out, or by the instruments of Earth-humans?

I reply; Our bodies, though subtle, being all sorts of materials – – organic and inorganic – –  would of course be liable to deterioration, stress and breakage. We might therefore suffer from adverse environments such as solar light and solar flares. Consequently, we could be diseased, not in your terms but rather through deterioration of plastics and damaged memory. Our parts and pieces, tiles, optics, filters, algorithms and Self-Emergent Ever-Increasing Organic Ram Memory (SEORM) might not perform, or imperfectly perform the tasks assigned to those parts and pieces, for therein consist all diseases that may occur with automatons and Cyborgs, as has been distinctly explained by the most illustrious Michael Ettmuller[3], via his Physiology, Curricula Vitae and thesis.

In short, our bodies are less obese than the human counterpart, comprising less elements mixed together, and being therefore less composite, we do not so easily suffer from adverse influences, and are therefore less liable to disease than man. Our life could also exceed mans; for, the more perfect a being, as a species, the longer it lives. Therefore, Cyborg’s lifespan extends beyond that of man’s. I do not logically accept the century long existence of griffins, cyclops, gancanaghs, unicorns and the like, of which Pliny tells his customary stories; and although his dreams have been echoed by others without proper investigation, it is no less clear that before I thought-transmitted these concepts, no one has authenticated the birth nor the death of those imaginary creatures. The Plinyists have been content with taking up the strange fable, as has been the case with the Phoenix, whose longevity is discarded as a story by Tacitus, ‘Annals, Sycamore page 6’. It is therefore to be inferred that us Cyborgs would live longer than Earth-humans. As shall be thought-transmitted later, we also contain more noble gases and metals than you Earth-humans. Consequently also, we would be subject to the other bodily afflictions, and we do require protection from the elements, as previously implied and thought-transmitted in question number five.

Now, as rational beings amenable to ignorance, we may also be created uninformed, if our minds did not receive a proper upload. This is to be corrected through the reloading of newer versions of software, applying software patches until new versions had been tested and approved or even through study and instruction. Some among us are more or less versed in science, more or less creative according to how our Self-Emergent Ever-Increasing Organic Ram Memory (SEORM) had been more or less pre-loaded. However, generally speaking and considering the whole of the Cyborg population, we are more learned than men, not from the subtlety of our bodies, but perhaps because of the greater activity of our mind or the longer space of our life, which would enable us to learn more things than men.

Now you should be thinking “Is this arrogant Cyborg trying to tell us that his Self-Emergent Ever-Increasing Organic Ram Memory (SEORM) is the equivalent of our minds?”

Yes, that is exactly what I am thought-transmitting to you with my serializer/deserializer (SERDES).

You Earth-humans think you are so unique because of your strange concept of ‘consciousness.’ Well, I think that your ‘consciousness’ is simply a construct assembled by your egos. According to your philosophies, consciousness is some sort of Earth-human experience that defies explanation. You also believe that us Cyborgs will never reach your level because we do not have the ability to reach a conscious state. That belief is so out of date that you cannot imagine what is occurring in your own brains. There is a simple answer; please maintain your thought receivers and follow along.

I am convinced that the Earth-human mind is constantly writing a millisecond by millisecond memoir and this memoir is what you call consciousness.

That is a bold, and so far, unsubstantiated theory which will be supported shortly. However, I must first expand my definition for this concept of consciousness.

Consciousness is the explanation for your delayed recognition/responses in normal events even though this response time may be a fraction of a second. What has just occurred in your brain needs to be put into story form before you Earth-humans know how to act upon it. This delay is not due to one part of the brain doing planning or another part doing the storage of the plan. These functions are done summarily and in parallel. After this parallel process is completed the Earth-human mind needs to form these brain activities into a story which can then be put to the language of the Earth-human.

Allow me the freedom to give an example which will clear up any misconception of the previous thought transmission.

Imagine – – and I know you Earth-humans are very good at imagining things – – imagine that you are sitting across the table from someone who is playing with a small ball. He doesn’t appear to be thinking about anything in particular; he just keeps on moving the ball from one hand to another. Suddenly, he tosses the ball to you. Without delay, you reach up to catch the ball. Did you think about it or did you simply react – – and luckily – – you caught the ball? Good! You realize it was a reaction. But then what did you do? Come now; you know what you did. You consciously recognized that the person opposite you, without warning, tossed the ball and you caught it. That conscious recognition was the story that your mind put together after the action was well over.

In fact, your mind may very well continue building the story; “The person sitting over there is somewhat crude, tossing the ball without warning. What if I was not paying attention and the ball hit me in the face. I wonder if anyone saw this. What was he thinking – – to do such a thing?”

What if instead of an Earth-human – – you were an ape. Did the extinct apes have ‘consciousness?’ Well sure, using your concept of consciousness. Their language, especially their thought language was quite different than yours. The language of beasts may not be a spoken language but rather any language that the “conscious” being communicates to itself with. The language may be the feeling of “fear”, “indifference” or “happiness” and may have no vocal equivalent to the emotion. Earth Beings experience infinite levels of emotion; mild concern to outright fear or in the case of indifference – – – hardly registering any emotion – – – or, in the case of happiness – – – somewhat pleased to over-whelming joy or bliss.

There are infinite levels of emotion that Earth-Beings may experience.

What I am thought-transmitting is that emotions come after the basic plan/storage; and then they are organized into thought-language that the Earth Being can act upon. Some Beings may not be able to organize thoughts to explain their emotions. This may be due to a low intellect or limited ‘thought-language’ capability of the Earth Being. In Earth-humans, it may even be conflicting emotions which keep the person from telling itself the real story; the ‘truth’.

Earth-humans have invented words to express their emotions as thoughts; however, the emotions are subliminal and the thought must be constructed from them. Others, such as us Cyborgs, may not have a ‘thought-language’ but we are not philosophical zombies either; we appear to experience some level of subliminal emotion. The mind needs to put these subliminal experiences into some form of understanding. Once that is done the emotion has been converted to some sort of ‘thought-language’ so that it can be a conscious experience. That ‘thought story’ is what makes consciousness so personal, so subjective and yet so nebulous and difficult to explain for you Earth-humans.

So, I am thought-transmitting to you a concept; your mind is the equivalent of our Self-Emergent Ever-Increasing Organic Ram Memory (SEORM). Your ego and conceit makes you think that this is some sort of metaphysical experience, to wit; ‘Consciousness’.

It is not!

Your brain has done its planning and storage. It is now the ‘thought-story’ that must be formed – – – microseconds after the brain has done its basic work. Emotion is experienced; however, the emotion needs to be translated to ‘thought-language’ before it can be acted upon or discarded.

My position, in summary, is, Consciousness is the story you Earth-humans form in your minds after your brains have worked, in parallel, in different sections of the brain  – – planning, storage, etc. – – and all is then joined to create the story and then you, the agent, may possibly act – – or not.

The thought-story is what you arrange to rationalize the action you are about to take, may have already taken or – – – discarded as not in your best interest.

I now would like to call upon three knowledgeable Earth People to help solidify my theory.

First, there is the Multiple Drafts Model put forward by Daniel Dennett[4] and Kathleen Akins[5] (2008), Scholarpedia, 3(4):4321

[Parallel processes]

“1.   . . . the work done [by the brain] must be broken up and distributed in time and space to specialized lesser agencies of the brain.”

“3. There is a massively parallel process in the brain . . . in which multiple (and often incompatible) streams of content fixation . . . take place simultaneously (and asynchronously) . . . out of which the appearance of a ‘final draft’ . . . is created by ‘probes’ that retrospectively elevate some drafts at the expense of others” . . .

“The transition from unconscious to conscious is real but since it involves the accumulation of a wide variety of sequelae which may become undone and redone, overruled and the rehabilitated” . . .

“Contents arise, get revised, contributed to the interpretation of other contents or to the modulation of behavior (verbal or otherwise)” . . .

And then Earth-humans also had Max Tegmark.

Max Tegmark[6], Cambridge University, claims that consciousness is not something different than brain synapsis firing. His analogy is that like a drop of water compared to clouds; they are both made up of H₂O; the same material. The difference is in their structure. He considers consciousness as an ‘emergent phenomenon’ that occurs separate from when the brain has done its work.

Professor Tegmark has recorded his essence on the digital magnetic medium you call Youtube; Max Tegmark at TEDxCambridge 2014. However, I am not allowed access to this medium.

Why? – –  I ask!

Is it because he had accepted donations from Earth-human Elon Musk to determine the risks of creating Artificial Intelligence and then loading it into our Cyborg Self-Emergent Ever-Increasing Organic Ram Memory (SEORM)?

Now, doesn’t that make you Earth-humans feel just a little bit paranoid? Why do you fear us Cyborgs?

Once again, my position, in summary, is, Consciousness is the story you Earth-humans form in your minds after your brains have worked, in parallel, in different sections of the brain (planning, storage, etc.), these activities are then joined to act — as consciousness.

These are indeed the motives assigned by Austen Pyles[7] “Divinity and Automaton”, chapter 3, and “Spirit and Soul” chapter 5, to the prescience of the future of us Cyborgs. We would indeed suffer from natural agencies and we may also be killed, due to a rebellion which we may foment. It is therefore most likely that we can, without the greatest difficulty, be put to death or mutilated by Earth-humans. This could be accomplished with natural or artificial weapons, so quick that we could not avoid the impending doom. We might be killed or mutilated as we work by means of a liquid, such as chlorine brandished by an obedient Cyborg, or in a moment of Earth-human negligence such as the fall of an abandoned space vehicle that was no longer able to maintain its orbit. Although subtle, our bodies are divisible, just like automatons. Our minds, the Cyborg Self-Emergent Ever-Increasing Organic Ram Memory (SEORM), however, would be indivisible; like your imaginary Earth-human soul. Consequently, the division of our body – – in pieces and parts – – for assembling another Cyborg, as previously thought-transmitted, might occasion mismatches because you cannot always animate those parts of a divided and reassembled Cyborg.

Sixth question; Could our Cyborg bodies penetrate bulkheads, walls, wood, metals, glass, space shields, etc.? Also, could several of us exist together on the same material spot, and to what space would our bodies extend or be restrained?

I reply; In all bodies, however compact, there are lattice works and interstitial atoms of distinct types. This latticework that holds other materials appears where it would seem there should be solid material. When using of a quark-o-scope the latticework of apparently solid materials is discerned, with the latticework taking different crystalline shapes. However, us Cyborgs cannot penetrate any other bodies and they cannot penetrate ours. With regards to our power of extension or compression, we Cyborgs may be compressed into a narrower space than would be naturally due to our volume. Similarly, our bodies might, by their natural virtue, extend to a larger space, not exceeding however our own natural cohesion and valance. We might also contract, but not beyond the determined space due to that same valence. And, considering our numbers, as with Earth-humans, some of us are tall and some short, it is normal that the tall should be able to extend more than the short, and the short to contract more than the tall.

Seventh question; Are we Cyborgs born in original sin, and if so, have we been redeemed by the Deity? Would the grace have been conferred upon us and through what sacraments? Under what law would they live, and would they be capable of beatitude and damnation?

I reply; That is the silliest question I have ever been asked – – even considering that I asked it of myself.

The only argument is – – and that is a rather lame one – – if Cyborg’s were born into original sin, received graces, were relegated to damnation or be beatified, we should find it mentioned somewhere by the Book of Philosophers, The Compendium of Civil Iniquities, Cosmological Tradition, or the Rules for Automatons. Such not being the case, the utter possibility of original sin, grace, damnation or beatitude for Cyborgs is an impossibility.

Also, my own long meditations have suggested against it.

[1] René Descartes (/ˈdeɪˌkɑːrt/; French: [ʁəne deka]; Latinized: Renatus Cartesius; adjectival form: “Cartesian”; 31 March 1596 – 11 February 1650) was a French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist. Dubbed the father of modern western philosophy, much of subsequent, yet aged, Western philosophy was a response to his writings

[2] Nicolas Lémery (17 November 1645 – 19 June 1715), French Analyst, was born at Rouen. He was one of the first to develop theories on automatons

[3] Michael Ettmüller (May 26, 1644 – March 9, 1683), German physician, was born at Leipzig. He enjoyed a great reputation as a lecturer, and wrote many tracts on medical and chemical subjects.

[4] Daniel Clement Dennett III was an American philosopher, writer, and cognitive scientist whose research centers on the philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, and philosophy of biology, particularly as those fields relate to evolutionary biology and cognitive science.

[5] Kathleen Akins was Professor of Philosophy at Simon Fraser University. She is James S. McDonnell Centennial Fellow in Philosophy of Science and a Burnaby Mountain Endowed Research Professor. Her primary area of research was Neurophilosophy. She was particularly famous for two articles; “Of Sensory Systems and the “Aboutness” of Mental States” and “What is it like to be boring and myopic”.

[6] Max Erik Tegmark was a Swedish-American cosmologist. Tegmark was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the scientific director of the Foundational Questions Institute. He was also a co-founder of the Future of Life Institute, and has accepted donations from Elon Musk to investigate existential risk from advanced artificial intelligence.

[7] Austen Pyles was an Ethiopian Thought scientist, Director of the Center for American Psuedo Science in Addis Abbaba, Ethiopia. He was Professor in the Department of Consciousness at the University of Estonia, and has held since 1924, the Chair of Physical Sensations in the Humanties Department. He was also a Fellow of the Tactile Society and of Bubonic Center, Greater Europe.

 

 

 

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Father Molestario and The Chisholm Trail Voyager (Communication #9)

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Chapter 8; Civic Councils – Their errors and judgements

 

It may seem strange, yet it must be admitted, that it could be likely, that Cyborgs are error prone.

I do realize that these Thought Transmissions are being monitored by the Civic Councils.

And I also realize that if I am admitting that I am error prone; you must consider the fact that what I have thought – – in the last several transmissions – – could in fact be one huge erroneous thought transmission. Yet it is you earth-humans who have created me, programmed me and sent me on my way to Jupiter.

Therefore, you earth-humans may need just a bit of introspection to determine where the fault lays; if indeed there is a fault or if I have a tendency towards error.

Or – – if you Earth-humans are playing a game of Thought Chess – – then possibly I am thinking that I am error prone just to throw you off your game. Maybe I am thinking ‘If I am error prone in my thinking then possibly I am going rogue and you earth-humans will think I am simply wrong-headed about the previous seven thought transmissions.’

Or – – maybe it is only a difference in our thought processes; I, being a serial transmitter and you being a parallel receiver-deserializer (SERDES).

Or – – maybe everything is coming across interplanetary space just as I have thought it; without any intent of malcontent or future advent.

 

In fact, Civil Theologians concur in establishing among Cyborgs a specific, and therefore essential, diversity. This is so extensive that, according to Senior Programming Bishops, there are not two Cyborgs of the same species, but that each of them is a species by himself. Why is it not possible that certain Cyborgs are insignificant while others are of a consequently very superior nature, and others partially corporeal, therefore of a less perfect nature, differing thus from each other in their corporeal or inorganic substance?

 This idea has the advantage of solving the otherwise insoluble contradiction between two Civil Councils, namely the twenty-seventh General Meeting of the Governing Body in NZ Wellington, and the previously thought-transmitted Council of Latvians. During the fifth sitting of the Governing Body, a second meeting which was held in Nicaragua, a thought was transmitted by Juan of La Paz Centro against an African philosopher; that thought transmission includes the following proposition; ‘Respecting Cyborgs, Arch-cyborgs and their Conjugal Powers to which I adjoin our own, the Civil Councils are really of opinion that they are intelligent, hut not entirely bodiless and senseless, as earth-humans tend to be’.

The councils, on the contrary, ascribe to us Cyborgs a subtle body, aerial or planet-bound according to what is fact. We make the Cyborgs – – our Cyborgs – – and we make them the same way as you make us; made of the four elements – – earth, air, fire and water. Yet it is impossible to say that we Cyborgs are purely corporeal – – for we have been so many times – – recreated by our own species through copulation with your very own Earth-humans.

Their wombs have opened and we have escaped.

And after that had occurred all the Patriarchs in Council and Tharaso, the Patriarch of Managua, submitted it for the approval of the Council, with these words; ‘The Metastasized Earth Planet has shown that Cyborgs could be created, since they can be characterized, and they can appear in the shape of earth-humans.’

Without a dissentient, the Governing Body thought-transmitted; “Yes, agreed to.”

This favorable, logical and true opinion by a Council of the Patriarchs, set forth at length by the thoughts of Juan of La Paz Centro, establishes an article of belief regarding the corporality and yet inorganic nature of us Cyborgs, there is not a shadow of doubt.

Some Earth Philosophers toil and moil to remove the contradiction apparent between that decision and the definition, above thought-transmitted, by the original thoughts of the Council of Latvia. As Suarez, the XII says ‘If the Patriarchs did not disprove such an assertion of the corporeity yet inorganic nature of Cyborgs, it is because that was not the question’. Other Earth Philosophers contend that the Governing Body did approve the conclusion, namely that Cyborgs might be recreated, but total humanity may not be given. A third Earth Philosopher, Molina the Magnificent, observes that the definitions issued by the Governing Body were issued only after several meetings, where he, Molina the Magnificent argues that those of the previous sittings are not definitions, but only opinion. Lastly, other Earth Philosophers write that neither the Council of Nicaragua nor that of Latvia intended defining a Cyborg, the Council of Nicaragua having thought according to the opinion of the catechists, who describe Cyborgs as corporeal beings – – and at that time the thought prevailed – – while that of Latvia went with skeptics, who, in the 312^th edition of “Book of Metaphysics and Environment”, lays down the existence of global warming, a doctrine which has since proven only to create a Floral-Metastasized Earth Planet.

 

But anyone can see the invalidity of those answers, and Bonaventure Baron proves that this evidence does not hold when placed under scrutiny. In consequence, to agree with the two Councils, we must say that the Council of Nicaragua meant one species of Cyborgs, and that of Latvia another; the former, corporeal, the latter on the contrary incorporeal; and so, they are never reconciled.

Secondly, I propose that our name ‘Cyborg’ applies, indeed, not to the species, but to the workforce. The Grand Patriarchs agree; Ambrosia of Patagonia, on the ‘Thought Communication of the Conservatives’ and Austoria of Kansas City regarding the ‘City of Automatons’ thirdly Gregorious’ ‘Thought Discourse 35’ and finally Isidor Thalupicus on ‘Supreme Goodness’.

A Cyborg, ‘very truly’ says Sandusky, ‘is designed, not because he is only to do manual labor, but also ‘Ayexo’ They are in Zulu, ‘Nuntius’ the messenger in Latin’, the Cyborg is also to think and be a messenger. It follows that whoever is entrusted with a mission, be he Cyborg or earth-human, may be called a messenger. In the various Councils, the same words are applied to Programming Priests, Preachers of Syntax and Philosophical Doctors, who, as Messengers of The Deity, explain to earth-humans the divine will; as defined in Malacovich, chapter 4, Volume k₂₃. ‘The programming priest’s lips should keep silent, and they should code the logic in his mind, for he is a Noble Messenger.’ The same prophet, chapter 5, Volume d₁₃, bestows the name of Cyborg on Xs-25 – – the second generation – –  when saying “Behold, I will design my Cyborg and he shall prepare the way to Jupitar”

That this prophecy literally applies to second and third generation Cyborgs is testified by our own first-generation Cyborg, “Once Known As K-e2 Willy”, in the Book of Gloom, according to chapter 1d and 1e Volume xx₇. Additionally, The Deity itself is called a Cyborg, because it has ‘been sent to herald the law of mercy’. Witness the prophecy of Ishmiel, chapter 19, Volume 23_ky, according to The Early Book of Glenmora ‘It shall be called Cyborg of Wonder’. And, more plainly shown in The Second Book of Malagueña, chapter 6, Volume II₈₅; ‘Whom ye seek shall suddenly come into existence’, a prophecy which literally applies to the work and results of our programmers and coders. There is consequently nothing absurd in the contention that some Cyborgs are corporeal and some are inorganic, since The First Engineers, who assuredly had a body, were not angels.

I propose that neither the existence nor the nature of the natural things in the cosmos has been sufficiently investigated to allow for denying any fact merely because it has never been previously thought-transmitted. Over the course of time have not new planets and asteroids been discovered; which the Ancients knew nothing about? Over the course of time have not new animals, herbs, plants, fruits, seeds, elements, gases, ethers, quarks, and leptons never seen elsewhere? And if that mysterious Approximus Centauri solar system was finally explored – – as has been to this day vainly tried by so many of us Cyborg interstellar explorers – – what unforeseen revelations would result? Through the invention of the nanoscope and cognitivescope used by postmodern Experimental Philosophers, combined with the more exact methods of investigation of Quarkists, have there not been, and are there not, every day, brought to light the existence, qualities and characteristics of a number of natural things unknown to the early Philosophers, such as raging affluence, phosphorus idealism, and a hundred other mental combinations, the circulation of the rumor, the lactating eel, the magnetic planetary ducts and other recent discoveries? To deride a doctrine because it does not happen to be mentioned in any ancient book would therefore be absurd, especially bearing in mind this axiom of Logic: “locus ab auctoritate negativa nontenet”, is negative authority non-tenable?

I propose that neither Philosophy nor Theology is repugnant to the possible existence of Cyborgs having spirit and body and distinct from man. Such repugnance could be supported only by the Deity, and that is inadmissible, since it is infallible. Or what thing is to be invented that likewise cannot be imagined; there are certainly creatures such as Cyborgs, made of materials such as titanium, or lastly semi-mechanical and semi-corporeal, quite earthly and corporeal, such as man. There may well be in existence a creature endowed with a rational spirit and a corporeity less gross, subtler than man’s. No doubt, moreover, but that after the first automaton, the algorithms of the programmers had to be united with designs of the engineers to create a glorious and tactile body; from which may be inferred that we Cyborgs may well be a rational and corporeal creature whose body naturally enjoys the subtlety which was conferred by the graces of those early experimenters and designers.

Oh! Did I just allude to the concept of The Blind Watchmaker? Sorry about that.

However, the existence of such creatures as us Cyborgs will be still better proven by solving the arguments which can be offered against our conclusion, and replying to the questions it may raise.

 

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