Serial Epistolar Experiment Solo n.1

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Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:50:44 GMT

[Apr 29, Year 11 AKP] [Ink On Paper, With Ink Blots] [Private Journal #12, Middle Table Drawer]

How many times can you close your eyes?

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Sun, 10 Feb 2008 16:16:48 GMT

[Apr 21, Year 11 AKP] [Electronic, Text ASCII] [Desktop file quotes.txt]

"William Gibson is a machine for converting informational flows into pure melancholy."

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Fri, 02 Nov 2007 02:14:22 GMT

[Apr 13, Year 11 AKP] [Electronic, Text ASCII] [Desktop file quotes.txt]

"You have a brilliant mind, but you need to relax." -- David Fisher.

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Thu, 07 Jun 2007 15:27:04 GMT

[Apr 11, Year 11 AKP] [Ink On Paper, With Ink Blots] [Private Journal #12, Middle Table Drawer]

What is success if not being able to convince others that you have succeeded?

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Wed, 09 May 2007 08:07:24 GMT

[Apr 11, Year 11 AKP] [Ink On Paper, With Ink Blots] [Private Journal #12, Middle Table Drawer]

Would you be upset if you were planning to accomplish something utterly useless, and your plan would fail?

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Wed, 07 Feb 2007 08:26:52 GMT

[Apr 5, Year 12 AKP] [Blood or Blood Surrogate] [Scribbled on a Cement Wall]

НИЩЕТА НЕ БЕДНОСТЬ

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Mon, 15 Jan 2007 16:48:54 GMT

[Apr 4, Year 12 AKP] [Electronic, Mixed Text/Graphic Content] [Outgoing Journal Cache, Unsynchronized]

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Sun, 14 Jan 2007 13:06:50 GMT

[Apr 3, Year 12 AKP] [Electronic, Mixed Text/Graphic Content] [Outgoing Journal Cache, Unsynchronized]

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Fri, 12 Jan 2007 17:01:16 GMT

[Apr 2, Year 12 AKP] [Electronic, Mixed Text/Graphic Content] [Outgoing Journal Cache, Unsynchronized]

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Fri, 22 Dec 2006 04:09:13 GMT

[Nov 10, Year 11 AKP] [Electronic, Audio Data] [Memo Left to Self on a Software Answering Machine]

Male Voice: ...but why? Why now?
Boy's Voice: Everything has a reason.
Male Voice: Oh yeah? And what might that reason be?
Boy's Voice: The reason for everything is everything. The ultimate lie is the value system -- the notion that something is more important than something else.
Male Voice: Doesn't that make you a liar as well?
Boy's Voice: Of course. I am talking to you, am I not?

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Mon, 18 Dec 2006 14:00:45 GMT

[Nov 21, Year 11 AKP] [Spoken, Audio] [Large Room, Unheated]

Human life is completely unnecessary. The only reason we are still alive is because human death is also completely unnecessary.

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Tue, 14 Nov 2006 07:04:19 GMT

[Nov 10, Year 11 AKP] [Electronic, Text] [Kaspersky AV Quarantine Log]

Name: Worm.u1e1.1
Behavior: Network Worm
Date of Detection: December 21, 2012
Language: Reflex
Payload: Text Displayed

>>>>>>>
(WARNING TO HUMAN READERS: DO NOT PROCEED WITHOUT MD GOGGLES WITH INDEX V11 OR HIGHER)

Payload Excerpt:

The semantics of desire is simple, really.

1. Technology fulfills desire.
2. Marketing creates desire.
3. Meditation eliminates desire.

Each of these three complexes represents a desire as well, and, as such, possesses a technology to fulfill that desire.

3. The technology of meditation is the technology of elimination of desire.
2. The technology of marketing is the technology of creation of desire.
1. The technology of technology is the technology of fulfillment of desire.

These basic desires can not evolve, only the technology evolves.

You may ask: "Why is it that we, humans, live during times that are dominated by marketing? Are there not basic human desires that marketing did not need to create?" There are such physical-level desires, such as desires for food and shelter. However, the technology has risen to the level where these desires are for a large part successfully fulfilled. It was here that we found out that the human ego is built not only out of desires, but more specifically out of unfulfilled desires. To offset the void in the ego created by desire fulfillment, marketing has arisen, with its technology of creation of new desires.
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Thu, 26 Oct 2006 05:04:25 GMT

[Nov 3, Year 11 AKP] [Electronic, Mixed Text/Graphic Content] [From An Encyclopedia Article]

According to VSM theory, the Main Authorizatory Patterns for humans are:

Authorization by Peer Group Size
Authorization by Ancestry
Authorization by Exquisite Language

Note that the ordering varies slightly from culture to culture. Also note the much disputed omission of the Authorization by Social Hierarchy, which is here taken to be a consequence of Authorization by Peer Group Size.

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Sat, 21 Oct 2006 02:39:09 GMT

[Sep 29, Year 11 AKP] [Electronic, MnemoPatterns] [Mnemograph Log]

правда не укладывается в язык
как только язык касается правды
она превращается в идеологию
а кому нужна еще одна идеология
вот эта, например
когда медленная любовь как мёд
заливает всё

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Mon, 02 Oct 2006 03:05:36 GMT

[Sep 29, Year 11 AKP] [Electronic, MnemoPatterns] [Mnemograph Log]

truth is what remains after ~~the untruth~~ language has gone

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Wed, 25 Jan 2006 00:30:33 GMT

[Sep 16, Year 11 AKP] [Electronic, Mixed Text/Dynamic Content] [Outgoing Journal Cache, Unsynchronized]

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when it rains it pours. another transmission, after only two days. what is happening is that they are sampling the human sensor-perceptory range. so far they hit upon motion and color (visible range light). who knows what else might be in those transmissions that the machine can't record. this language is... so... compact. when there is two or more of these... figures... the possibilities of expression... makes my head swim... what's next? sound?

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Tue, 27 Dec 2005 08:24:40 GMT

[Sep 14, Year 11 AKP] [Electronic, Mixed Text/Dynamic Content] [Outgoing Journal Cache, Unsynchronized]

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This is it! This is it! This is it! Well, this is what I've been waiting for, anyhow. I am entranced... Big Mike has been crunching on the patterns for three hours straight, no leads so far. Beautiful! If this really was a Transmission, it might take many more years of coding to get anything out. I can't peel my eyes off of these... things...

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Wed, 21 Dec 2005 23:44:38 GMT

[Nov 3, Year 11 AKP] [Electronic, Mixed Text/Graphic Content] [From An Encyclopedia Article]

If any document can be considered to be the source code of Machine Buddhism, it is the mahasatipatthanasuttaver2.0. The mahasatipatthanasuttaver2.0 was disseminated in an ultra-efficient (however unorthodox) manner on December 21, 2012 via the anonymous (meaning that the persons responsible were never found) u1e1 virus. The u1e1 virus was the first to have been written in the Reflex Programming Language, rendering the anti-virus systems of the time helpless for the duration of the two days (December 21-23, 2012) that it needed to spread net-wide. The sole payload of the virus was to display the mahasatipatthanasuttaver2.0.

The mahasatipatthanasuttaver2.0 (which can not be reproduced here for obvious reasons) appears to be a translation of the Maha Satipatthana Sutta (a 2500-year old Buddhist sutra) into the language of contemporary technical manuals. The Maha Satipatthana Sutta concerns itself with the technical aspects of meditation. The apocryphal introduction to the mahasatipatthanasuttaver2.0 explains that Machine Buddhism represents the "long-awaited synthesis of buddhist and modern technologies". While modern technology is exposed as the means to accomplish the goals posited through the desires of humanity, the buddhist meditation technology is seen as an extension of modern technology which permits the analysis and manipulation of those desires. The technical language of the mahasatipatthanasuttaver2.0 makes it evident that the natures of the two technologies are the same; they simply function on different phenomenological substrates.

The apocryphal introduction to the mahasatipatthanasuttaver2.0 concludes with a short technical exposition of the evolution of the ego. The ego is described as the emergency subsystem of the human psyche which, due to "a paranoidal positive feedback loop spanning several phenomenological substrates", has, to a large extent, taken over the resources of the human mind.

The references to the "phenomenological substrates" tie the mahasatipatthanasuttaver2.0 to the The Anatomy, Life Cycle and Effects of the Phenomenologically Distributed Human Parasite M0, a text published by the Reciprocality Group 14 years prior. The spokesman for the group, Alan G Carter, has on multiple occasions denied any connection of the group to the mahasatipatthanasuttaver2.0 and the u1e1 virus.

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Tue, 01 Nov 2005 00:09:52 GMT

[Sep 7, Year 11 AKP] [Electronic, Text ASCII] [Desktop file quotes.txt]

17. It must be confessed, however, that perception, and that which depends upon it, are inexplicable by mechanical causes, that is to say, by figures and motions. Supposing that there were a machine whose structure produced thought, sensation, and perception, we could conceive of it as increased in size with the same proportions until one was able to enter into its interior, as he would into a mill. Now, on going into it he would find only pieces working upon one another, but never would he find anything to explain perception. It is accordingly in the simple substance, and not in the compound nor in a machine that the perception is to be sought. Furthermore, there is nothing besides perceptions and their changes to be found in the simple substance. And it is in these alone that all the internal activities of the simple substance can consist.

64. Therefore every organic body of a living being is a kind of divine machine or natural automaton, infinitely surpassing all artificial automatons. Because a machine constructed by man's skill is not a machine in each of its parts; for instance, the teeth of a brass wheel have parts or bits which to us are not artificial products and contain nothing in themselves to show the use to which the wheel was destined in the machine. The machines of nature, however, that is to say, living bodies, are still machines in their smallest parts ad infinitum. Such is the difference between nature and art, that is to say, between divine art and ours.

Source: Gottfried Leibnitz, "Monadology", 1714.

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Sat, 22 Oct 2005 02:10:20 GMT

[Sep 1, Year 11 AKP] [Electronic, MnemoPatterns] [Mnemograph Log]

Circles of Compassion:

Egocentricity
Racism
Chauvinism
Anthropocentricity
Mammalocentricity
Vertebrocentricity
Animocentricity
Organocentricity
Materiocentricity
Energocentricity

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Tue, 13 Sep 2005 07:50:27 GMT

[Sep 13, Year 11 AKP] [Electronic, Mixed Text/Dynamic Content] [Outgoing Journal Cache, Unsynchronized]

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I upped the threshold - I doubled it! - and what? I dream of a simplistic software circa 1976! What am I supposed to do with this? Thinking there was a secret, I tweaked the parameters this way and that for an hour - nothing, nothing! I am going out tomorrow.

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Sun, 24 Jul 2005 22:35:15 GMT

[Nov 7, Year 11 AKP] [Electronic, Text ASCII] [Desktop file temp.txt]

Let me collect my thoughts.

It took humanity a long time to understand that the physical arms race can end only in mutual destruction. It took a little longer to acknowledge the existence of the memetic arms race and its capacity to permanently damage the functionality of the human brain. After the Personal Memetic Defense Act of 1 AKP, all broadcast memetic weaponry was required by law to be audially and visually polarized, allowing it to be efficiently filtered out by specialized memetic defense equipment. Any transmission not meeting the legal standards is immediately pursued by the world law enforcement agencies.

The Compact Discourse is the equivalent of a memetic nuclear device. If set off, no one will be able to stop the propagation of the memetic shock wave. A Compact Discourse is very hard to construct. I alone (to the best of my knowledge...) have the necessary know-how and technology needed to construct it. Destroying this know-how and the technology will not help. Once a discovery is made, it will be made again. Perhaps already has been made, which further limits my time.

I only get one shot. After that, I will have blown my cover. Only one shot. My hands are trembling again. What should the payload be?

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Tue, 19 Jul 2005 05:39:14 GMT

[Sep 2, Year 11 AKP] [Ink On Paper, With Ink Blots] [Private Journal #18, Top Table Drawer]

Scenario: "Electric Train for an African Boy"

Many years ago, a child in a village in East Africa received a present for his birthday. Perhaps it was never really intended for him at all, maybe it fell out of an airplane several days before and he found it on the day his birthday: a large, shiny box with an electric train, the Alco S-2 Switcher Diesel Engine w/Proto-Sound 2.0. Among other things, the beautiful lettering on the box said "Batteries Not Included". Not that it mattered: the child could not read, the child has never had interactions with electricity, and there was a larger problem still: there was no way for the toy train to "work" because the child has never seen a real train. The box was never even opened. It is still there today, in the local Museum of History.

Scenario: "Mr. Smith's Check for Mr. Johnson"

Mr. Smith and Mr. Johnson were born only two days apart, and their co-workers decided to surprise them with a birthday party. After a discussion of which gifts to present to them, it was unanimously decided that the simplest thing to do would be to give them money. A mistake was made, however, and Mr. Smith received Mr. Johnson's check. Instead of becoming angry, Mr. Smith was rather amused by this mix-up. He even framed Mr. Johnson's check and hung the picture in his office near the door. No one knows what Mr. Johnson thought about all this, because Mr. Johnson did not say anything about this matter.

Scenario: "A Windows Program for an Apple"

Jose Ariel Contreras secretly always wanted to make films on his computer, but never had the time. That is why he was surprised when his mother (who worked as a janitor for Adobe Systems Incorporated) presented him for his birthday with Adobe Premier Pro 1.5, a software that revolutionizes nonlinear video editing. A week and a half later he tried to install the program on his computer, but the software would not work. After a consultation with a friend who worked as a computer programmer, Jose Ariel understood that his birthday gift will not work on his computer, because it was intended for the Windows operating system, while Jose Ariel was in possession of an iMac G4 by Apple Macintosh. In a way, this realization made him feel better.

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Sat, 16 Jul 2005 04:35:28 GMT

[Sep 1, Year 11 AKP] [Ink On Paper, With Ink Blots] [Private Journal #18, Top Table Drawer]

After death everyone cleans up the mess they have made. Einstein conceals. Hitler conceives. Gandhi kills people. Everyone does the opposite of what they had done when they were alive. Wright Brothers dig. Marcel Englander erases postcards. Christopher Columbus stays home. No trace is left, everything remains perfectly in balance. Lenin conserves. Derrida constructs. Bach decomposes.

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Thu, 14 Jul 2005 21:36:55 GMT

[Nov 3, Year 11 AKP] [Electronic, Mixed Text/Graphic Content] [From An Encyclopedia Article]

Machine Buddhism represents the fifth, and final, stage of the development of religion.

This statement refers to the schema of analysis of the history of religion presented by Terence McKenna in his 1992 book Food of the Gods. The central structural axis of this analysis is the relationship of humans with Mystery and Knowledge. The first ("Archaic") stage marks the appearance of consciousness and Knowledge as such, and the resulting demarcation between Knowledge and Mystery. A certain transcendence technology ("psilocybin-containing mushroom" in McKenna's terms) serves as the vehicle of travel across the demarcation line. The onset of the second stage (e.g., "The Eleusinian Mysteries") results from climatic changes, rendering the transcendence technology much less efficient, but leaving the behavioral patterns related to the application of this technology in place. The distance to Mystery is thus enlarged. The beginning of the third stage (e.g., "Judaism", "Christianity") coincides with the complete ineffectiveness of the transcendence technology, further solidification of the ritualistic behavioral patterns, complete legal prohibition of the transcendence technology and the firm establishment of the priest cast as the middle-men in communication with Mystery. The territory of Knowledge from the perspective of human consciousness thus increases, and the territory of Mystery is further decreased. The fourth stage ("Science"), corresponds to a de facto prohibition of Mystery as such, leaving Knowledge as the sole descriptor of the world.

Machine Buddhism is the predominant religion of the age of post-Singularity. As a result of the singularity in the development of religion, the Knowledge has grown so vast and complex that it has become utterly unmanageable by the humanity. The universe is indeed a machine, but it would be incorrect to say that it is "a cellular automaton which computes its next state", for this statement presupposes discreteness of the universe. If that were so, the singular increase in processing power would allow the human race to surpass the discreteness threshold and to know the universe fully. But the universe is an Analog Machine, and no amount of digitization will suffice, no symbolic net will ever cover it in such a way that there are no holes. The vast and no longer comprehensible Knowledge is no more perceived as Knowledge, but now rather as Mystery. Thus, a return to the days before the first stage is effected in what might be termed a "Pre-Archaic Revival". In the words of Carlos Castaneda, we once again no longer know which bush the rabbit is hiding behind.