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"Absolutum Obsoletum" If it works it's out of date

1.1 Exponential Oversaturation of cognitive and behavioural options/outcomes

The total amount of all past and current of humanities experience current integrated and embedded significance and the emergent interactions of their respective memetically viable axioms in cyberphysical EISOA is theoretically impossible to measure and understand. Ideas, communication, and ethology very real consequences and the absurdly complex and deep well potential memetic resource has much to offer for individuals and collective entities to be harvested and processed into functional knowledge classified high up on Bloom's Taxonomy to allow society in general to optimize cultural evolution of humanity towards a given ideal With the exponential increase in the rate of STEM content being created the current human faces a staggering amount of information, cognitive/behavioral options, and problems to manage and the challenges facing humanity and the self are only going to grow in number and complexity. There is an explicit underutilization of resources and cognitive technologies freely available to the general public currently and entities that exploit these developments are only going to have increasingly coercive and unbalanced advantages in finance, marketing, ethology pressuring, and intellectual property. Establishing adaptative and sound frames of perception via the methodologies created by an individual themselves will enrich possible net emergent frames found in a social environment and may raise the perceived.

1.2 Aim

The method I suggest to potentially achieve this lofty goal is combining a "perspective theory" with mapping the MM I described earlier as an augmented complex system model that is based on the viable system model.

Personal Engineering which is a subset of Unsignificant Sentience is a new proposed field of STEM that aims to explore and understand the various aspects of human existence and experience from a scientific perspective. It challenges the traditional notions of human exceptionalism and significance, and instead treats humans as one of many possible forms of emergent and conceivable sentience in the universe. Unsignificant Sentience applies the principles of STEM to study topics such as consciousness, morality, creativity, free will, emotions, spirituality and more. It seeks to discover the underlying mechanisms and patterns that govern these phenomena, as well as their implications for human society and culture. Unsignificant Sentience is an interdisciplinary field that draws from disciplines such as neuroscience, psychology, philosophy, computer science, mathematics and physics.

1.3 Proposed Adaptive Approach

Applying concepts from STEM and the humanities as well as the individual treating their own emergent existence, life, ethology, and conscious experience, frame generation, as an ongoing engineering project using methods externally reviewed via the scientific community and using skills developed in US, attentional control systems. machine learning and statistical analysis all being subject to peer review and cybernetic modulation should provide a host of benefits including raising the quality of an individual enities personal experience to a much higher level with the quality of self actualization being more easily facilitated and also bestowing the ability adapt to novel or challenging/stressful, potential or real, acute or predicted, situations effectively and efficiently a significantly faster rate. This is a very topical area of interest in our current situation and cyberphysical reality right of you reading this

The widespread uptake and use of US and its "black box" modules of perspective theory and personal engineering would allow for both a universal improvement in quality of life of all while still respecting personal differences in belief and self-expression which is essential to avoid a monolithic cultural force derived from accelerating and more coercive social pressures resulting in a homonormative general populace without the awareness of their own rights and capabilities enabled by STEMs accelerating progression and its very real acute impacts on almost all aspects of our lives

The total amount of all past and current human experience and the interactions of their respective axioms integrated significance, culture is theoretically impossible to measure and understand. With the exponential increase in the rate of science and culture being created at an exponential function of some increasing rate, the current human faces a staggering amount of information, cognitive/behavioural options, and problems to manage and the challenges facing humanity are only going to grow in number and complexity. There is an explicit underutilization of resources and cognitive technologies freely available to the general public currently and entities that exploit these developments are only going to have increasingly coercive and unbalanced advantages in finance, marketing, ethology pressuring, and intellectual property. Establish frames of perception via the methodologies created by an individual themselves will enrich possible net frames found in a social environment.

1. 3 Utility of Axiomatic Assumptions

If you reduce and classify all of human experience into a few manageable well defined domains of place holder or black box axioms e.g. technology, engineering, science, culture, philosophy, medicine, maths statistics etc.) then it is possible to via perspective theory to start creating recursive ontologies representing each domain into a meta ontology that is able to reconcile both factual information and context aware experience of interacting with these domains via application of the principles outlined in the MM. It is possible to integrate various peoples MMs as well as digitized axiomatic ontologies to create a functional and engaging meta framework to enhance personal experience, communication, and integration with a more objective view of reality as well as paradoxically able allowing an individual utilizing US to define and create their own subjective experience and value

There is the danger of over reduction of experiential aspects of human lives but it is clear that while the qualia established in an individual establishing their own frame out of their own autonomy, that this approach respects both a cohesive social collective of well adjusting individuals and the individuals unique experience that they themselves are able to define their own EISOA boundaries of in the context of modelling the emergent net existence and functional cognitive and behavioural units of an individual as a viable system model

2.1 “M3” Mindmap, Mental Reconstruction, and Mental Experiments

The mindmap, mental reconstruction, and mental experiments can be interfaced with cyberphysical systems via haptic input or adaptive predictivity of an individuals ethology and superficial cognition via generic psychometric biometrics embedded in IoT or directly into normative electronic devices.

Almost complete mental transparency for each character and there is entity comprised of human-machine symbiosis essentially distrusting Karma in a utilitarian human way via sophisticated operative psychology or reducing or increasing a subject’s awareness of themselves, surrounding, implications, and functionality.

Haptic/VR Input

This can be simple as MIDI input, generic keyboard input, or VR controller input.

Derived from excessive modelling of users behaviour (which may or may not be happening, and if you don’t see this post again, then um...) Via the framework of ME0000 and the MM, it is possible to emulate a “digital twin” of an individual via inputting the real time input and models of an individuals traits and personalities into a viable system model.

Based of a standardized MM axiomatic assembly and ontology that can be generalized to any conscious entities ethology and the resulting functional VSM model can be generated from any willing or unwilling individual. The intersection of the VSM with allometric cyberphysical geometric interpersonal reality will allow for visualization of extended phenotypes and internal activity in a cognitive substrate correlate with terrifying detail and accuracy.

Hypothetically units similar to SI units but unfortunately qualitative not quantitative can be derived from these simulations of digital twins

The technology, philosophy, software, data, and soft/hard sciences all exist to enact this as a new reality for a very little overhead and hopefully for very little profit

Perspective theory is the bed rock upon which my cognitive technologies and meta heuristics rest.

2.2 In Vivo and In Silico Cybernetics Applications and Implications of M3

Cybernetics the science of communications and automatic control systems in both machines and living things.

An individual treating their own emergent existence, life, ethology, and conscious experience, frame generation, as an ongoing engineering project using methods externally reviewed via the scientific community supported by cybernetic control systems, machine learning and statistical analysis while being subject to peer review and cybernetic modulation should provide a host of benefits.

Raising the quality of an individuals personal experience

Allowing for ongoing reproducible effective and efficient progress towards working towards and obtaining self actualization

Bestowing the ability to more readily adapt to novel or challenging situations and embrace the increasingly exponential rate of social, cultural, and technological development

Perspective and personal engineering would allow for both a universal improvement in quality of life while still respecting personal differences in belief and self-expression which is essential to avoid a monolithic cultural force derived from accelerating and more coercive social pressures resulting in a homonormative general populace without the awareness of their own rights and capabilities enabled by TESCpm progression.

The total amount of all past and current human experience and the interactions of their respective axioms integrated significance, culture is theoretically impossible to measure and understand. With the exponential increase in the rate of TESCpm being created the current human faces a staggering amount of information, cognitive/behavioural options, and problems to manage and the challenges facing humanity are only going to grow in number and complexity. There is an explicit underutilization of resources and cognitive technologies freely available to the general public currently and entities that exploit these developments are only going to have increasingly coercive and unbalanced advantages in finance, marketing, ethology pressuring, and intellectual property. Establishing frames of perception via the methodologies created by an individual themselves will enrich possible net frames found in a social environment.

“Any open or closed system that can and perceive, assign, remove or modify meaning to parts of own system or other any other systems are a candidate for personal engineering

Current philosophy is extremely biased towards the human first person PoV perspective and if groups of people implement this system their lives there could be unprecedented new levels of complexity of communication and control processes between actors/entities

2.3 Perspective Theory based on Converting Normative Ontologies into a Communicable Set

This model of human experience I proposed can be understood with the study of perspective in art. Using mathematics, deductive, inductive and abductive logic in abstraction in parallel with reduction along with any basic taxonomy/ontology.

It is possible to turn most things that can be described or observed to be remade into an axiom. This includes the external and internal and the objective, subjective, and inductive. It is also possible to construct modules of axioms that don’t represent anything yet existing in objective reality and then adjust or conform these extra external abstract axiomatic models to correspond to any EISOA phenomena or to generate new ontologies that may generate some insight or functionality

Disregarding some fundamental logic, epistemological assumptions, and understanding of TSECpm via establishing primary axioms categorized as self-evident, sound, and valid, it is possible to create a set of place holder axioms as an ontological scaffold that can be further refined to represent metaphysical categorizations of objective, subjective, or abstract reality in either egocentric and/or allocentric modes. An important consideration is that axioms in perspective theory are by their own nature arbitrary and not intended to fully describe objective, subjective, or abstract internal or external reality in their entirety, rather perspective theory is intended to be a potentially semi-automated on-going process that continues to approach the theoretical limit of what can be deduced or assumed about the nature of reality. However, the mere ability to construct a set of axioms requires a neurocyberphysical correlate that logically exist to support their embodiment in a cognitive or digital architecture that recursively indicates that these axiomatic sets are sound and viable which is an ad hoc iteration of “I think, therefore I am”.

One point can be described with multiple axioms and suspension of disbelief can be used to reduce conflicts. It is logical to assume that if opposing networks of axioms are embedded in a recursive meta framework that two or more ontologies that have axioms that conflict and would on the surface be incompatible would still be able to be nestled in a more expansive supporting ontology. A terrible example is the synchronicity of the left and right cerebral hemispheres despite each hemisphere containing brain regions that have opposing functions with the brain as a whole reconciling hemisphere function into one gestalt holistic integrated seemingly non modular experience. Perspective theory has the flexibility and capability to be adapted into already existing ontological frameworks such as the cybernetic viable system model which was inspired by the evolutionary psychology-based theories about emergent levels of brain function and their resultant ethology and inducive adaptability of the host organism (typically specified as humans past the age where theory of mind develops).

There is a danger of over reduction of experiential aspects of human lives but it is clear that while the qualia established in an individual establishing their own frame out of their own autonomy, that this approach respects both a cohesive social collective of well adjusting individuals and the individuals unique experience that they themselves are able to define their own EISOA boundaries of in the context of modelling the emergent net existence and functional cognitive and behavioural units of an individual as a viable system model

These sorts of protective yet cultivating frame parameters are featured quite heavily in paracybersocial networks of deceit yet these different agents can bundle frames in such as way that there isn’t much conflict between opposing sides or memeplexes and if this doesn’t reduce conflict then there should be many other interventions carried out by a handler

These axioms can be arranged via taxonomic/set theory (logic) principles to form a network or grouping of axioms which can have any logical rules assigned to an axiom or arrangement of interrelated axioms, arranged in any order or arrangement described in mathematics. As perspective theory is also intended to be utilized “offline in vivo”, this enables perspective theory the flexibility and functionality to be reconstructed mentally in a model form that is personable to an individual utilizing PT.

The axiom systems themselves can be abstracted or consolidated into new axioms to form systems of near infinite complexity for various purposes.

I think that the real importance of this document is to highlight how easily perception of reality can be changed how that certain ethnologies lead to abrupt change in the number of ways one can interact with reality

However, before you get carried away it would be a lot easier to start using already defined axioms. Sciences, and normatively define areas of human knowledge and experience and so on. There has been extensive work and research on developing ontology for many fields of human knowledge, there are many interdisciplinary ontologies, there are specific software and data sets catering to the development and automation of ontology formation, and there are meta ontological frameworks which could be used in conjunction with perspective theory to model as many domains of existence and human experience as possible

Perspective in art can be used to get a more realistic and accurate representation of a perceived subject. Art is an essential tool to establish what could be and to also try to see if it is possible to ground these simulacrums in a foot hold of reality. Perspective theory in PT is no different, it is simply the art of discerning what is possible based on what you know

To get an idea of how this theory would work in vivo. In perspective theory (the canonical art theory) drawing the subject is drawn to appear more realistic as being displayed on a 2d medium, one or more vanishing points to give the illusion of perspective on a flat surface

As seen here each perspective in this case changes the eventually projected diagram of the box. It is the same box in each case, just in this case different points of axioms have been chosen to construct the final image. Perspective theory just means adding in new axioms as a point of perspective to construct a new model from. Adding and Removing axioms can radically change the resultant model allowing for deep insight into interesting relationships and emergent properties.

Oral Human language of just spoken word and no visual contact is conventionally one dimensional and there are many ongoing efforts to create poly dimensional communication pluripotent control systems

Roughly speaking We see a “3d” world in two dimensions

However, humans can think and operate in many dimensions, in this context include modular/non modular examples (define and provide examples).

Due to the vast interconnectedness in the brain conscious experience is not truly 3d either rather conscious experience follows a dense interconnected and twisted wireframe model making it difficult to visualize purely 3d shapes from a first-person perspective

Objective Reality Compared to Subjective Reality

As stated earlier, the fact that this iteration of perspective theory does not consider dualistic assumptions as some important implications. However, it is important to note that the starting axioms could equally be able to have any sort of dualism as a solid axiomatic framework to derive ontological relationships from.

Our subjective experience and the objective nature of molecules and energy interacting and interchanging in neural pathways do not map up one to one. This is mostly due to evolution repurposing existing brain pathways or functions pretty much haphazardly over the evolutionary time for humans to be a thing. We are perhaps the densest objects in the universe (not because of actually density but because of the fact we can't escape from our very compacted neural wire frame and chose not experience our own minds in a sort of existential black hole way)

Traditionally perspective in art has been used in a Euclidean sense however if you roll with subjectivity for a bit, you could use modular aspects of a way of viewing reality as another "dimension" which may consist of any type of value or data. Using the systems described earlier you can construct or model a “similcurm” in your mind (or in silco) of a subject (x) described in many “dimensions” aka 3d perspective, color, physiological states, its materials, its physical properties, the public gestalt.

A meta axiom in perspective theory can be a science or a branch of the sciences such as physics, biology, and chemistry. Going through day-to-day life with these axiomatic heuristics in the forefront of your mind can fundamentally change the way how you view yourself, how you interact with your internal state and external subjective reality, or just provide a slightly too bit over the top method of loci.

Traditionally perspective in art has been used in a Euclidean sense however if you roll with subjectivity for a bit, you could represent anybody's view or any way of looking at the world as a new dimension/axiom. Using the systems described earlier you can paint or model a “picture” in your mind of a subject (x) described in many “dimensions” 3d perspective, colour, biology, its materials, its physical properties, the public opinion, and any other sets you come up with while minimising the occurrence of cognitive dissonance and keeping the total model logically consistent

Perspective theory could theoretically allow consciousness to utilize a method that could be potentially more effective at describing more aspects reality than science. As alluded via using more than one vanishing point to get a more "realistic" two dimensional cube

A healthy human’s body, including the brain is a complicated machine and powerful supercomputer

Everything we are consciously aware of (thoughts, feelings, internal narrative, sensations, senses and perceptions) is a highly abstracted model. An edited and streamlined UI (selected for by natural selection to reduce the cost of adapting to a complex environment and promoting choices best for the organism's fitness), the system of the brain that has executive control decisions aka “you” the end user.

DOI:10.1145/102675.102676

Input is done on conscious attention and focus of the executive control system on certain aspects of the UI.

Our brains/minds have evolved to reinforce what we actively choose or just end up paying attention to you. Value and importance regarding any object, event, value, or person tends to increase both more you pay attention, and how hard you focus. In the end the main control you have over you is what you pay attention to, even over what you choose to do or think. Attention reinforces attention.

A healthy human’s body, including the brain is a complicated machine and powerful supercomputer

This model can predict the nature of some of the structures of the brain and their function

The selection pressure offered as an explanation for the evolution and development of consciousness will also yield some hypotheses to be tested.

This model is abductive in nature and need to pass critical tests and become highly corroborated considered to have the status of a true scientific theory

However even if the model isn’t robust, it still has some applications as a conceptual model to utilize in personal endeavors.

Assuming this model to be true or suspending disbelief, this model can be abstracted to form an axiom or “single unit” in an example of a practical application of perspective theory regarding creating a model for a specific purpose and outcome.

These core axioms of human experience can be used to construct an easy to manage, modify and comprehend model of the totality of experience and to study the interactions of the axioms and any emergent properties.

Theoretically this sort of modelling done by different people, with the same axioms and the same rules of interaction and logic. People would be able to avoid a lot of the issues of subjectivity.

Due to its nature, the model is not purely a truth-seeking enterprise and has some aspects of mathematics and art/aesthetics

The logical implication of establishing PE/PT in several hosts and subject to ongoing development and refinement of mechanisms and processes of functionality and quantification of objective reality and the correlating cognitive and mental phenomena/experience is that slowly the inner physics of the mind and brain will become elucidated and standardized to form general theories and axioms about conscious experience.

PT and PE assumes that all subjective experience is subject to quantification and qualification, even if this can only be achieved via an abstraction of these states or phenomena until PE/PT has developed to the point where this data can be extrapolated. Another key mechanism involved in PE/PT is the use of ongoing and holistic biometry in order to create as much data points possible allowing an individual or researcher to reconstruct the exact frames and qualia that were experienced at a given point of time.

2.5 Reconstructing Physical and Mental events in VSMs

If my theory about physical monism is correct then it should be relatively more straight forward to be able to “trace” the developing ontology of experience, behavior's, and cognitions. An example of this is the exposure of a host to a novel word or association and tracing this learning to a subsequent ethological instance where this word or association is referenced or used in some sort of communication and cybernetic based control system or secreted to the cyberphysical environment memetically. There is plenty of literature on this concept which is called "the extended phenotype", I am not sure that in the research that they state that they presume monism to be an objective truth or not. Logically every word a human knows or can utilize (outside of words generated via grammar rules or other mechanisms) has to either be learned or synthesized based on linguistic logic (or just a mistake))(but a mistake is still a creative iteration of a previous cyberphysical event)

Some philosophy is extremely biased towards the human perspective. One key experiential phenomenon experienced when manic is the misattribution of allocentric interactions to a egocentric frame. This indicates that there are frames where an individual does not consider themselves as an agent in a social interaction

These core axioms and sets mapped to human experience can be used to construct an easy to manage, modify and comprehend model of the totality of experience and to study the interactions of the axioms and any emergent properties.

Hopefully the model can provide an individual with a far greater and deeper understanding of themselves, others, society and the universe they live in.

The model also can be used to make and test predictions

As the model is based on axioms, the model itself can be changed in a similar way by removing axioms, adding new ones or changing existing ones potentially allowing for very powerful and complex simulations for exploring the big questions and even the small ones.

Perspective theory in itself is modular however the interaction of specific modules by specified relationships or rules may lead to non modular emergent memeplexes. These may be reproduced in another host via constructing the exact same axiomatic network and graph theory rules but discrepancies would allow for very valuable data about human perception and experience.

Theoretically with this sort of modelling. With the same axioms and the same rules of interaction and logic. People would be able to avoid a lot of the issues of subjectivity. This is illustrated by the fact that it would be possible to construct an axiomatic model via perspective theory where strong atheism and any given Abrahamic religion are both given to be either true and sound, or false and invalid but neither combination logically mutually exclusive. (also please don't make me do the truth table for that claim)

IEOSA (|Internal External|) (|Objective Subjective Abstract| Reality)

Via ME0000, An axiom is assumed that Internal and External reality are the same but non modal due to the assumed axiom of substance monism

I was curious about if it was possible to model cognitive activity as a physical system so I just created an equivalent qualitative metric to at least be able to have some degree of relative quantification of mental phenomena. Obviously these units are optimal for how I experience subjective reality but I hope that it will at least be interesting and maybe even useful to someone

(Universe)

00 Standard SI units and Conversion to Neural Wireframe Substrate

01 S (Second) -> (CT0))

02 M (Meter) -> (One Relative MR Length)

03 KG (Kilogram) -> (Vividness of MR Qualia/Intensity of Focus/Attention)

04 A (AMPERE) - > (Spontaneous Fluidity of Emergent Properties/Associations))

05 K (Kelvin) -> (Stability and Half Life of MR Entity)

06 m (Mol) -> ( n=(Amount of Nodes, Edges, Planes, Modules, and Axioms) present in a n)

07 cd (Candela) -> (Prominence of Focus of Pure MR over External Subjective Reality Sensory Input)

Due to how the brain is neurologically wired, subjective experience is relative to itself or another phenomena so the key to deriving M is to just to visualize two points in your mind and their existence in themselves defines one M, it doesn't have to be a static distance.

It is important to note that all of these “SI” units for cognition are relative and qualitative but as M (the equivalent of meter) can be defined as the arbitrary difference between two 0 dimensional points envisioned mentally, the other (SI) units can be derived from comparison to the self same qualia. Also of importance, if the MM is utilized and constructed in the same way as all of the potential recruits in a demographic that selects against a control for a psychological experiment, then these “cognitive SI units” can be standardized regardless using both self reporting and other research tools of various expense and invasiveness.

3.1 Method to Test US Efficiency in Vivo

Indirect Experiment Measuring US’s Function

Experiment proposed to study the predicted empirical effects the Ubermench as Nietzsche saw it would have on society

Reverse engineer a prototype that would cause the same effects in society as predicted by Nietzsche

After a bit of thought the logical next step would be create “Prototype Ubermensch” in a form of a memeplex as described by Richard Dawkins

Using operative psychology and social engineering to inoculate society with meme and give the meme a decent start

The memeplexes behavior’s, spread and fitness can be tracked in real time via the internet and analyzed with any x-omic discipline. Obviously the memes in the memeplex have much higher fitness if they are “inherited together”

if no empirical society effects described by Nietzsche are observed in the follow up with usual scientific process"

Is a language, as utlized by an adult, technically some sort of cultural/psychological/neurological endosymbiont.

Language obviously affected how we evolved and as we enacted reciprocity with language, the greater the innate ability to uptake a language was selected for in humans, and languages evolved with us.

The MM being a novel language designed for integration with computing software and improved scope and efficiency of communication will outcompete traditional extant languages if and only if it functions effectively as a memeplex.

Substance monism Hypothesis

If one considers the physical laws of the universe and by analogy how hydrogen arose from the universe after its opaque stage after the initial singularity then by postulating an adductive hypothesis, one could consider that the process “human” evolution started as soon as time began to flow in one direction and the future of conscious existence will most likely depend on memetic and biomedical developments in our time. Taking the liberty of saying this hypothesis as sound and valid then it would follow that every thought or cognitive process that occurs in an individual either consciously or unconsciously has/is a corresponding change in the real physical objective universe and by extension effects the physical world to some degree. This assumes that abstract objective and subjective reality has a physical correlation.

The developing embryology of human closely follows the evolutionary lineage of our ancestors. It could be possible that the development of an individual’s consciousness follows a similar process. Every conscious human individuals self-awareness arises from a brain that which in turn arises from one cell which is quite complex but not as complex as a functioning developed adult brain, the zygote which can be considered a null entity. Assuming dualism not to be true then every event, thought and conscious process as to some degree a comparative process in the physical world. This means that the sum of an individuals total conscious experience would be, in a reasonably deterministic universe, in a sense all events could be temporally traced back to a singularities or similar base events (not necessary uncomplicated).

It is logical then that units derived from genetic, memetic, and metabolomic “events” that can replicate, spread, and mutate can be traced back to a single point resembling (via perspective theory) a multifaceted dimensional “Feynman diagram” of which the totality of the resulted extended phenotype is excreted into space time and external/internal objective/subjective/abstract realities restricted by the expanding “light cone” of causality.

Mental Experiment 0023 TSeCIV

Simulation of the development and use of TSECpm in civilizations, systems, locations, and/or MR emulations

This requires collaboration between individuals whose understanding of topics that I never really paid attention to or took interest in.

This experiment can be either be done through the lens of https://www.tumblr.com/paromle/713186305955299328/experiment-0014-mind-canon-fiction-historic?source=share

With perspective theory allowing for fictional phenomena to be reconciled and mapped to cyberphysical reality or can be done purely empirically via STEM, linguistic, and history based methods

Current ISR, mass data and bio-metric technologies also including spectrum analysis could falsify any hypothesis that this adductive theory generates. On could potentially see the expression of culture as a sort of extracellular matrix in which human creates/secrete physical and cultural structures in the real world as result of physical, technological, or biological processes. This is known as an extended phenotype

3. 2 Simple Overview of Standardized MM Construction

Axis

-x Logical/Deductive <-> Emotional/Inductive +x

-y Street Smarts (Fluid Intelligence) <-> Book Smarts (Crystallized Intelligence) +y

-z Subjective Internal Reality <-> +z Empirical/Objective Reality (Science, Technology, Philosophy and Engineering)

Main Branches 3 axis -/+ movement, 6 possible directions (6 Branches)

*Note, even though this document lays the conceptual basis, in practice Personal and Communication have since swapped axises

Number

Direction

Branch

Forward

Active

+z Empirical/Objective,Active Attention Reality (Science, Technology, Philosophy and Engineering)

Back

Personal*

-z Emotional/Inductive (Autoepisodic Memory)

Left

Planning

-x Logical/Deductive

Right

Communication*

+x Social Reality, subjective/qualitative, systems

Down

Management

-y Street Smarts (Fluid Intelligence,working memory)

Knowledge

+y Book Smarts (Crystallized Intelligence)

Actual Model of concept in euclidean space

Use of model is in real time and has a 4th temporal dimension

Sub branches branch of main branch same and direction of first branch is stored in working memory

6 Main branches, 3 -/+ movement axis 6 directions (36 Sub Branches)

Number

Direction

Active

Personal

Planning

Social

Selfcare

Knowledge

Forward

Act/Sense

Conscious experience

Dynamic

Interact

Physical Health

Technology

Back

Perceive

Narrative

Review

Revise

Analyse

Health - Other

General

Cultural

Left

Logic

Boundaries

Projects

Network

Contingencies

Engineering

Right

Creative

Values and Beliefs

Skill Management

Social Skills

Mental Health

Philosophy

Down

Think

Conscious Model

Resource

Management

Persona

Applied mindfulness

Mental Frameworks/ Models

Describe

Memory encoding and Recall

Ideas

Society

Cognitive Health

Science

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All you need to do is think/imagine up for y+ sub branch (knowledge) or down for y-sub branch (Health,self care,survival)

Input

Use feedback from input (Keyboard, Midi or other later on) for computing or in case of mental model just think/imagine of direction or corresponding symbols in orders (Instead or direction or number could be 6 colours, 6 piano notes 6 names, what is easiest for the individual to work with). Kinesthetic, haptic, visual, recognised patterns, MR or Axiomatic substitution could be used.

It may help to develop lists to be used in contextual situations in the case of having to use a rudimentary form

10 key input

L Left Hand - Sub Tree

R Right Hand - Main Tree

1 Activate L 2-5

1 Activate R 2-5

2 Alternate Input L 3-5

2 Alternate Input R 3-5

3 Forward/Back z or -z

4 Down/Up -y or y

5 Left/Right -x or x

5 Right/Left -x or x

Revised 5 key input

Left hand or Right hand

1 Activate - Default direction z or -z: Forward/Back

2 Alternate Default,3,4

3 Face -x or x: Left/right

4 Face -y or y: Down/Up

5 Secondary Branch Activate - Same Default direction

This can be simple as MIDI input, generic keyboard input, or VR controller input.

Derived from excessive modelling of users behavior (which may or may not be happening, and if you don’t see this post again, then um…) Via the framework of ME0000 and the MM, it is possible to emulate a “digital twin” of an individual via inputting the real time input and models of an individuals traits and personalities into a viable system model.

3.3 Friendly Warning that this something similar has been Developed or will be Developed

The capabilities/components for everything I have outlined already exist and are somewhat in effect. [Apart from some core adaptive algorithms and external loci, seeds and reproducible non modularity]. I think applications are in effect based on the evidence at hand and previous response times I have discerned (mostly at face value with consideration with misinformation techniques [now certainly in play to some degree] however with long term potentiation I still have the advantage due to retrospective cognition, exponential complexity generation [mitigated by biometry], reacting behaviorally, sub-vocally and non modally to layers of abstraction representing both past, present and futures perceived, imagined, falsified and real.

Bloom's Taxonomy, self actualization and human development stages provide a theoretical good framework for guiding development and understanding of skills required in the practice and application of Unsignificant Sentience functional modules

1-Clearly define goal, skill or hobby

2-Research and Evaluate the essential main core sub-skills to perform the skill at the predetermined level of mastery wanted

3-Develop an effective method/methods for you to learn, train and practice each sub

4-Develop a program and training routine to regularly practice these core skills

5-Come up with a simple way to measure your progress during or after each time you practice and optionally you can also apply skill in a rewarding way occasionally to enjoy any progress made

6 Treat your program like a gym routine. Set aside and block the same time period each day for training/practice of the skill(between 20min and 1hour 30min long)

7 Do the Program when planned for that week

8 After each time you train do the reference to measure your progress

9 Review the Reference to measure your progress and adjust the program for next time you train accordingly but keep a record of the old program for reference

10 Each week review how long you adhered and engaged with the program If you are happy with your progress focus on how you can improve your training and looking for more advanced skills to add to the program

If you are not happy ask yourself honestly if you really want to spend time want working on this skill right now

If you want to keep training ask yourself why you didn't adhere and engage with your program and how you could make it easier for you to adhere and engage with it next week

If you decide that training isn't what you want or not realistic then stop training for the time being and focus your energy on other more important or urgent things for the time being, at least until you want to in the future or it's more feasible to train.

Sub-branch Fields (Further into the model)

-x/x,-y/y,-z,z concept can be used to create a cube of 6 grids or 54 fields for sub-branches directions that cover a diverse area of concepts and skills. There is a nth set of modular axioms which is just an gestalt whole survey of a knowledge grid and is usually defined as 0-other as related to the epistemological theme of each 3x3 grid sub branch

Example of use

Situation where something to do with biology of interest or individual wants/needs easy access/recall to/of knowledge or skills of biology

Example Path: Up Up 4 (Knowledge, Science, Biology)

In this case the start of the path is the bottom image

1 Physics

2 Earth Sciences

3 Chemistry

4 Biology

5 Interdisciplinary

6 Formal Sciences

7 Health Sciences

8 Space Science

9 Social Sciences

This path could link to course guide, wikipedia page, wolfram alpha or the student's own revision notes stored in a cloud

Further Applications

Online integration

Wolfram Alpha (Voice or keyword search)

Communication (Some new communications network [Needs development ;P] (NO ADVERTISING and ONLY INDIVIDUALS OR CONSENTING GROUPS)

Augmented or Virtual Reality applications (AR, day to day life, VR entertainment or study)

Smart Computing (Integration with smart houses and other technologies (Self driving cars, 3d printers, audio visual systems)

Unity (for prototype development)

GTP3.5 integration

Communication Reform

(HOLY SHIT OTHER PEOPLE THINK and FEEL TOO!!!!)

This form of communication happens 3d in real time with all the benefits of computing unlike traditional human communication media which is 1 dimensional and limited by human cognition, syntax, grammar, language, many points of miscommunication and no unified schema)

Offline integration

A Calendar

List of Skills, how to practice them and situations where they can be applied

List of Goals

Accurate Records

Notes and resources/sources about each branch, sub branch and field

Mental Integration (Using model mentally only)

Almost essential knowledge for mental only use

Overview of Blooms Taxonmy http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/hrd/bloom.html

Self actualization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-actualization

Important core mental and cognitive skills for mental only use

Mindfulness, mindful meditation, self guided mindful meditation and the ability to be able to apply mindful meditation online.

(No need to link source, there is so many apps, source, and websites about this it is insane however this does require a lot of patience and practice to be able to do at will, however I am working on ways to speed up the teaching and learning process)

Learning how to learn, Learning how to train, learning how to use skills.

I developed a simple step by step method for my to use to in learn stuff

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Example MM

Example Modifications to Your Personal MM

DBT (Essential for health management, distress tolerance, conscious modification of own behavior and efficient use of skills and life in general [All skills these skills are used currently in clinical therapy by trained and qualified mental health practitioners) https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Category:Dialectical_Behavioral_Therapy

CBT essential for managing and assessing your own personality traits, behavior and thinking patterns as objectively and unbiased as possible and modifying as needed/wanted

Study skills and mnemonics plenty of online research but if you have about 20 min free and want to here is a relevant ted talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ebJlcZMx3c

Critical thinking

-difference between descriptive/normative and normative comparison and normative moral (ESSENTIAL)

Moral theory

Knowledge of subjective and objective moral theories ( for practical philosophy purposes)

General skill set of an occupational therapist for own use

The relatively obscure concept that is gaining some traction in AI and cyberphysical systems is that of a digital twin

A digital twin is a virtual model or representation of a physical object, system, or process. It is a digital replica that uses real-time data and other information to simulate the behavior and performance of the corresponding physical object, system, or process.

3.4 Creating a Digital Twin of Self Same to Maintain Sovereignty and Personal Rights

Digital twins are commonly used in industrial settings, such as manufacturing, aerospace, and energy, to monitor, analyze, and optimize complex systems. For example, a digital twin of a wind turbine can be used to monitor its performance, predict maintenance needs, and optimize energy production.

Digital twins can also be used in other applications, such as healthcare, where they can help model patient behavior and monitor treatment effectiveness.

Overall, digital twins are a powerful tool for simulating and optimizing complex systems and processes, and are becoming increasingly important in many fields.

Some useful applications of a digital twin is to mirror a patients health/symptoms for medical professionals to have a clear understanding of the optimal and most effective/efficient method to treat a patient.

An interesting method to apply this concept with that of the MM is to create a "digital twin" method of loci for domains of knowledge and the axioms that map them.

I have an extensive database on a cloud services which mimics and corresponds to the actual cognitive model I have in vivo that organizes different realms of human knowledge, technology, skills, and experience.

Example Path: Up Up 4 ( +y Knowledge, +y Science, +y Biology)

In this case the start of the path is the bottom image

Now I have read most of the 1420 files at least at a very surface level of comprehension and I won't claim that I remember every detail but the important thing is that as with the advent of the internets effect on how people encode knowledge, I remember roughly in which folder and in which document relevant information that I might need is located.

Having the MM map to external exocognition in this manner externalizes a lot of the cognitive burden onto systems such as sand that was tricked into thinking, allowing for the relief of just letting go of the need to hold everything in your head as well as expanding the possible range of knowledge you can access immediately by several orders of magnitude.

4.1 2023/09/17 Update - MM is now a complete constructed language

I have put it off for a while but I broke my MM^3 hymen. I didn't intend to agency wise but it is just another predicted PQ/CB milestone that would have happened soon or later. There is six main branches and thirty six sub branches which means that there are probably 216 arbitrary branches if I got my math right. So in total there are 258 non combinatorial end points. I have noticed just by the internal logic of how the MM was designed that combinatorial endpoints just make intuitive sense somehow. I also have diffraction branch loci that are either one M in length or they have some non integer length of one relative M which is essentially a fractal structure. Both approaches to mentally reconstructing the MM have their own benefits. The clearest distinction that fractal branching is clearly non combinatorial as the end points are unique in space and integer M lengths are clearly can be taken as combinatorial or non combinatorial. I don't really need to encode all of the 258+ branches, I am not even considering the fact that I expanded the MM base system to at least a decimal base ten system and it doesn't cover non modal encoding and cryptography. It is clear that the MM is now a fully actualized constructed language given the fact that I have encoded qualia and concepts into M-theory shapes. The amusing thing is that I am intentionally misinterpreting string theory and how to actually how to model higher spatial dimensions than five as it just makes codification so much easier and now it is next to impossible for EVs to get a handle on IO's and SM's machinations now from what I gather of their capabilities.

MM has generative grammar, displacement, an established vocabulary, semantics, and clear ontology for standard communication across many non modal domains. It is a language now officially and I am pretty sure I am the only one who knows it. Even if it has been replicated and I have encoded the schema for that in exocognition, no one is likely to have the exact same ME00xx as me or qualia/intertextuality so effectively MM is both a interpersonal and intrapersonal language which I think has never been done before. It also seems to utilize different areas of cognition and neuro anatomy than typical languages and seems to "run on different pathways".

``I was thinking about what my interpretation of quantum theory would be based upon my current understanding and it would be both accepting and rejecting Copenhagen (CH) and Many Worlds (MW).

CH may initially be the only one may matter on first thought as our middle earth collapsed "global wavefunction" is the only one we will ever exist in. MW has been degraded often because it is messy and wasteful however as an axiom you can rule out considering all branches that don't follow the causality in our observable universe (the boundary between offshoots is unknown) just setting a multiverse axis of directional arrow of time and ignoring all other possibilities. Each plank second every quantized chromodynamic state change or particle interactions described by a generic Feynman diagram can be a branching point in which a new dimension gets created.

Dimension in this state is literally just a new axis of values of which the state change branch is described.

Cranking out models for this may lead to the conclusion that this many worlds dimensional projection of state variation will lead to a meta model where parallel universes, limited by expanded causality can be reverse models by just stepping down quantised steps until (a lot of steps in funky geometries) to the point were it it may be feasible to choose a meta clusters of branch points to a model a universe where literally a solid gestalt choice for you to keep thinking about this entry was enacted or not.

Selecting parameters could be done with funky neural net stuff like this

An important AOI between CH and MW is the weighting on self actualization pressure and memetic dominance. If MW is accurate all I need to is to maximize my future potential for actualization in the current moment or near future. If CH is accurate then I have to actually constantly for fill my potential which means sacrificing focusing on transitional skills and cognitive servomechanisms and specializing far more

The Feynman Lectures on Physics

FEYNMANLECTURES.CALTECH.EDU

It is pretty easy to construct the M-brane representations of qualia using this method. All you have to do is just define an arbitrary set of shapes and train an generative AI to associate them with qualia. The AI doesn't even need to experience or perceive the qualia, it is purely an associative enterprise. Varying one parameter of each of the arbitrary cardinal M-branes will leaded to a sort of library of babble esq data base of most possible qualia experienced by humans, potential qualia that might be experienced in the future, as well as derive arbitrary qualia in the case where https://www.businessinsider.com/what-is-blue-and-how-do-we-see-color-2015-2 is evident. This will also define "impossible qualia" that we can't perceive directly like https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Impossible_color

Typically by the default grace that you are human and hopefully viable as a biological organism, you would typically be somewhere in the very top peak of that ^ diagram in your day life. US allows you to transcend your normal mental, cognitive, and physical limitations and push past the usual glass ceiling of geodisc possible EGC splines and potential states of excellence just due to the mathematical almost deductive certainty of having a cohesive, robust, and constantly adaptive/optimized re memetic and genetic algorithmic systems based on the cybernetic construct of an actualized cyberphysical viable system model which is the gold standard control and communication theory of self managing entities.

There are two sets of five axioms that I always have loaded no matter how badly I get and destroyed by reoccurring depressive phases. They are,

Five: “Laws of Observation and Action”

1. There is always a bigger picture.

2. There is always another level of detail.

3. There is always another perspective.

4. There is always error.

5. There is always the unexpected.

Existential Consequences of Merely Existing

a) I exist

b) I am alive and/or experiencing something

c) What I do or think matters or has consequences somehow

d) I have some level of agency

e) There is something other than me

Taken together these sets of axioms provide a robust outlook to adapt to external objective, subjective, and abstract reality. Given that I am blatantly an unashamed strong monist, the environment and I/you any VSM is one and the same internally and externally.

The AAMP is a heuristic that I developed to deal with my ADHD as it is a good metric for exactly what I am focusing on when I want to focus on something else in in another certain way. It is just a fact of reality and how our consciousness evolved that there are just different non-modal ways we can pay attention to ourselves and our environment

A weighted hierarchy is a system where elements are organized into levels based on their importance or significance. Each element is assigned a weight that represents its relative importance within the hierarchy. The weights are used to prioritize or rank the elements within the hierarchy. For example, in a decision-making process, a weighted hierarchy can be used to evaluate and rank different options based on their importance or relevance to the decision criteria.

One common approach is to use a decision-making technique such as the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) . This involves breaking down a complex decision into smaller, more manageable parts and organizing them into a hierarchy. Each element in the hierarchy is then assigned a weight based on its relative importance. The weights are determined by comparing the elements in pairs and making judgments about their relative importance. Once all the weights have been assigned, they can be used to rank or prioritize the elements within the hierarchy.

An example of a weighted hierarchy can be found in decision-making processes. For instance, when an engineer is deciding which project to undertake, they may use a weighted hierarchy to evaluate and rank different options based on their importance or relevance to the decision criteria. The engineer may assign weights to criteria such as cost, potential return on investment, and alignment with prototype goals. Each project is then evaluated against these criteria and given a score based on its performance. The scores are then used to rank the projects and determine which one should be selected. This is analogous to in vivo personal engineering utilization in day to day life and in the context of 4, 2 a multitude of personality traits can be considered based on what persona the personal engineer wants to enact. This also requires a certain level of self knowledge and self awareness as not every trait will be productive and maladaptive traits that are already “loaded” into 1, 3/2, 4 have to be considered

Let’s say that someone wants to work towards establishing a persona that is confident, empathetic, and responsible. They could create a weighted hierarchy to help them prioritize and focus on the personality traits that are most important to them.

First, they would list the personality traits they want to work on as rows in the hierarchy. In this case, the rows would be “Confidence,” “Empathy,” and “Responsibility.”

Next, they would assign weights to each trait based on its importance. For example, they might decide that confidence is the most important trait and assign it a weight of 3, while empathy and responsibility are equally important and each receive a weight of 2.

The weighted hierarchy would look like this:

Personality Trait Weight

Confidence 3

Empathy 2

Responsibility 2

Using this weighted hierarchy, the person could focus their efforts on developing confidence while still working on empathy and responsibility. They could set goals and track their progress in each area, using the weights to prioritize their efforts and make sure they are making progress towards establishing the persona they desire

AAMP – Attentional Awareness Model Perception

Awareness of focus subjective substrate

Awareness of foci of focus

Awareness of circumstantial NWF correlates emergent in conscious awareness

Egocentric

Exocentric

Allocentric

IESOA splines are a good axiom to consider as typically you, and you know this, view yourself as the happy little subjective center of the universe. This is not correct, the center of the universe is where the point is and the point can be anywhere. In fact many people miss the point.

IESOA Splines

Allocentric

Exocentric

Egocentric In order to deal with the fact that I have to do so much shit to remain viable as a human, the BH, aka the behavioral hierarchy provides a default set of behavior and non finite endpoints to work towards when I just either don't know what to do nor do I have anything to do. Basically the pointless radiant quests in Skyrim. But applying the BH always means that my cognition and behavior always means I am acting in accordance my morals, ethics, and values

a) JMC and PMC management

b) Active Attention/Focus

c) Mindmap/Meditation/MR/CBT/AE

d) Exercise and PMC Management

e) Projects and Autonomy

f) Study and HISE

g) Communication, Subvocalisation, Personas Systems

h) Contingencies, Preplanning, Prevention and IRS

i) Entertainment, Mindfulness/Mediation and Content Creation

j) Self Actualization

k) IO (Self Care)

l) OMA 7 (Offensive Meta Heuristics)

h) TPHU (Trans/Posthuman Undertaking)

There is my view of the totality of nature, which I am in perfect accordance with https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Baruch_Spinoza view that "god" is just the sum total of

Emergent Meta Awareness

1 EO - External Objective

2 IO - Internal Objective

3 ES - External Subjective

4 IS - Internal Subjective

5 IA - Internal Abstract

6 EA - External Abstract

which is to say the entirety of existence. Unfortunately I just had to go a step further and define new ontological metaphysical categories which are

Gestalt Cognitive Perception

1 G-IS/EO

2 G-ES/IS-IA-IO

3 G-EA/IS-IA-IO

4 G-EO/IS-IA-IO

5 G-IS/IA-IO

6 EISOA/IS-3, 4

US just doesn't work out as logically and ontologically consistent if I don't establish fuzzy gestalt boundaries between certain "modes" of reality and conscious experience. I just simply don't believe that humans as we are currently in the process of biological and cultural evolution as well as technological developments, are fully conscious in the way that consciousness could be like if we took steps towards remedying issues such as how remembering things actually edits those memories in the form of a weird Mendalla effect. There are just so many things about the human mind that are just shit in their implementation and execution and I firmly believe that US can allow humanity to develop both cognitively and technologically towards just a plain better state of exitance and self awareness.

One of the significant functionalities that one derives from practicing personal engineering and applying the US meta-modular framework is the realization that you are not your thoughts, you are not your personality, who you are is some weird non gestalt combination of your very molecules and the potential of your neurology to run cognitive coding in order to maximize the viable range of cognition and behavior's that conform to your very own MEVi (Morals, Ethics, and Values).

The meme of 42 being the meaning of life sort of ironically plays into the default MM as 4, 2 is the input for the sub branch of persona and ego management.

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The Balloon and the Five Buffoons

As an affecter, Olistole’s influence was mostly a hit and hope type situation. He could not sense what matter contained what nodes but if he could spread the focus of his mental reconstruction over an object and detect a node, he could enact whatever sub-program was encoded into that node by an alter or by nature himself. Olistole enjoyed scanning inanimate objects as the environment was always adapting and exchanging nodes with itself. Sometimes he could get a pebble to float, a tree to hypnotically change colours, or for shits and giggles, activate the notification system on someone's mailbox and these were the three exact things that Olistole did on his way home. He passed by a small garden that his brother used to take Olistole to show him how to harness his affecting. Syn was older and a very seasoned affecter, he had already passed the trials with flying colours and was in some higher educational program in the mainland. Olistole looked up to his brother and was looking forward to his own trial where he resolved to create his very own powerful or high utility actuator pathway. Olistole actuated the lock on his front door and made it open for him. while daydreaming about his future and being relieved that no effectors seemed to catch him annoying his neighbours. He would rather be annoying his friends, he was late for his daily training session regardless. He hurried with the gait of a man who didn’t really care about arriving on time

Under the sky clocked green and orange auroras flaked with electric blinding networks of fractals. Five spectres embossed in impossible colours, waltzed and stumbled around amongst a flurry of flung meta-material manipulated with the synergistic team effort of an effector and affector pair, The stage of this intricate dance was an obsidian coloured rocky black battlefield serving as an arena. The foundation of their training zone was threaded with multicoloured fractures with blips of light that had a life of themselves zipped, pulsated, and strobed in response to and despite of the five influencers. These figures spun from place and be dancing and flitting between glossed tracers of energy. Olistole saw excognitive phosphenes representing Kela’s effecting outlying a prominent target and he utilized his effecting mentally and lifted a rock and propelled it toward/ Velor didn’t need Ikaria to see this impending collision to his temple and caught the projectile in mid-air, redirecting the geode..

Ikaria and Kela seemed busy supressing each others effecting, essentially muting precognitive intuition for each others effector/affector pair. Olistole and Velor had to resort to the metaphorical equilivent of slinging crap at each other, dumb non-precise missles. They were training for much more dangerous environments so the risk of acute blunt risk trauma wasn’t much of a bother.

The Wild Grid continually fractured back together physically, mentally, and cognitively regurgitating hazing memetic caustic embedded in cyberphysical substrates. To Olistole, this buzz on the periphery external environment intersecting with though fuzzy boundary of his conscious subjective non gestalt boundary of his mind/prefrontal cortex fizzled and spitted in a self same esq pattern that didn’t warrant any level of increased offensive meta awareness. Typically net lossless grid states didn’t indicate that there was no potential threat to Olistole as he walked through the cellular Autonoma machinated via infected programmable Pico nanomaterials Jungle that thrived on churning chaotic procedural generation clashing with itself with caustic, potent violations for variations of the laws of thermodynamics, game theory, and biological theorems.

After a few hours of the five influencers playing and training their influence for the upcoming trials they came to a natural rest and lay about idly on the landscape floating their various thoughts about. The eldritch entities that they do or do not know that exist but their belief is always wrong, observed the objective, subjective, and abstract external frame of the influencers internal subjective reality. These beings alone saw the total of potentiality across all probabilities.

Zeph rested on the side lines trailing his fingers through solid ground as the teams of an effecter and an affecter put their wits and their proficiency over their respective type of influence while he grafted the ground itself into intricate geometries while the lights seem to interact with his actions and thought only known to him, IIkaria and Kela, and god knows how many Friendly Local Neighborhood Effector Vigilantes prowling around to assert self righteous judgement and punishment

Their surroundings were dark, and it was hard to tell what flora or fauna was compared to the ever-shifting evolving landscape. The effector affecter teams from before were coupled up and talking, Zeph had his fingers knuckle deep into one of the glowing veins and was appearing to influence the ever shifting ever evolving nature of the area around him. As all things do, the social temporal superposition faded

The five influencers parted their ways after a while of idle chatting about the training session and the upcoming trials and shortly after Olistole found himself winding his way home. The darkness of the sky didn’t bother him, his eyes were adapted to it. Sometimes something malicious could be lurking in the. surroundings, internally or externally. Ever vigilant for a potential possible threat Olistole noticed a vague shape far above. The sky is always cast in a mixed green hue of auroras and this object seemed to be ascending further towards these heavens. Olistole knew that this was likely to be Dayns, his anchorite friend. Olistole wondered if he could somehow get Dayns attention from where he was standing, as an affecter he couldn’t communicate at range, so he had no choice to use his affecting just to knock the object that Dayns was in to get his attention. Olistole focused his external matrix on the slim, apparently poorly made wicker basket hot air balloon. There was a sudden but ultimately not quite unexpected result of the structure collapsing and its occupant start to plummet to the ground of Epheosia.

Olistole felt a bit guilty, but he knew that anchorite’s internal matrix was their domain, meaning that anchorites could reinforce and boost their bodies natural abilities and resilience. Dayns appeared in a tumbled heap as Olistole approached. With a crack of his back and snapping stretch of his neck, Dayns said “you do realize that was my trial run, right? Forty days of fasting and meditation for preparation and crafting the most minimal possible wicker basket hot air balloon for my holy tempering and cleansing?” Olistole felt a bit more guilty. “Can you just resit with a few days of fasting and try again” he said. Dayns casually pointed to the faint glint of the fire that was fuelling his wicker balloon as the balloon drifted off somewhere to be reclaimed by the wilds and Olistole shrugged in apology and the two friends walked back to their village together.

Dayns affect perked up when he spotted his anchorite temple and asked Olistole if he would like to visit. Olistole agreed and they both proceeded through the temple courtyard, past living gardens the training grounds, and wicker balloon workshop, approaching the shrines entrance. Meditating in the shrine in front of an open hearth with black flames was Yan, the anchorite leader. “Ah, Dayns, you are back from your ascent pretty early, what happened to your balloon?” commented Yan. Dayns replied” I starved myself for forty eons before this idiot knocked me out of the sky, do I really have to fast again before I retry my ascendance?”. Yan unfolded his limbs with cat like grace and stood up with perfect posture and poise “Unfortunately it is our way Dayn, you will have to nourish yourself before fasting again and you will have no assistance from any alters in crafting a new wicker balloon”. At this point, Olistole did feel true guilt, he had gotten in the way of his friend's trial of sustenance. All Anchorites when they came of age were to construct their own method of reaching the skies and touch the auroras which would corrode their flesh then they would descend to rejuvenate and touch the auroras repeatedly, until they had tempered their bodies and minds and strengthened their connection with their internal matrix. Olistole did not really understand why they put themselves through all that, but then again anchorites were the only type of influencer who had no will over their external environment. It made sense that they would go to extreme lengths to make the most of their own abilities.

“Yan” said Olistole, “Why do you all undergo the tempering, it seems awfully inconvenient”? Yan looked to be no older than Dayns but he carried himself with grace and coiled lethality that betrayed his years and he remarked” Mastery over the inward is its own reward, you know that the anchorite's power is the inverse of the alters, we can have an enormous influence over our own internal physiology and psychology. I can, for example, sustain myself without matter or fluid indefinitely if I needed to, only to replace damaged or lost tissue and blood. We anchorites believe that the minimal viable unit is the one closest to perfection, but we also believe in maximising the creative and actualized self, so we train and temper our minds and bodies to simplify our matrixes but to maximize our potential number of actions that we can enact in any given moment”. Yan then proceeded to turn around and hold his hand outstretched in the black flames behind him. The fire started to consume the flesh around his fingers, smiling Yan pulled his outstretched arm from the flame and turned around to hold it upright in front of Olistole and Dayns. As the two friends looked on, the anchorites flesh began to warp and bubble as soft tissue, blood vessels, and skin flowed and reformed the damaged hand with no obvious signs of previous damage.

“The temperature of that fire isn’t typically hot enough to hurt me” said Yan “The auroras are a different beast though Dayns. It could be good fortune this eon is not the time that you fully attempt your tempering, I have been trying to pass through the auroras for as long as I can remember, and they just get stronger and more dangerous the more far out you go. Nobody knows what lies past the auroras and part of our anchorite philosophy is tempering and training until our matrix is resilient and lean enough to get through into heaven. Even the strongest effector cannot sense what lies beyond Epheosia’s upper atmosphere.” Olistole briefly wondered if he could benefit from tempering as well, maybe he would join Dayns on his next journey skyward. Olistole as an affecter could dimly sense nodes in his own internal matrix but they felt dull, blurry, faint, and imprecise but if he concentrated and focused hard with his mental constructional matrix, he could sometimes achieve small feats like raising or lowing his pulse or blood temperature at will or turn his skin or hair a slightly different hue.

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