Mid-morning. Carol is at breakfast with her
friends. You are ready to take a nap as you were up with Jadah during the night
then awoke early because Carol had to get ready for her breakfast. It is dreary
morning. Last night at five-fifteen the sirens whaled a tornado warning. You
went out to look as Carol gathered up essentials for the basement. The weather
looked worse just east (unusual cloud turbulence in low gray/dark mixes). You
discovered the cats don’t like small spaces (their cages) in times of emergency
so next time you just pick them up and take them to the basement and they can
hide where they wish once there. – Amorella
0854 hours. I didn’t hear the sirens at first because I had the fan on
in the living room. I went about gathering up things for the basement in a basic
routine fashion but I could tell the cats were sensitive to the moment and
absolutely did not want to be caged. The key is to get them into the basement
first thing. There are plenty of safe place to hide once there.
1425 hours. We had lunch for the third time at Piada Street Italian on
Mason-Montgomery Road, very good. Carol has a small Balsamic Chicken Salad and
I have a grilled Chicken Fritti Piada. There are lots of extras to put on the
food, in that way it is very similar to Chipotle. Carol bought a few tops at
Macy’s yesterday and we are taking one back so here I am on the south lot of
Macy’s.
You have been thinking about the recent
neuroquantology articles and wonder if there is a way to show them to be within
the boundaries of the Thunder Mythology. – Amorella
1431 hours. I think the concepts presented in neuroquantology are very
interest and indeed profound.
Carol arrived at your last sentence. You
stopped for a Graeter’s after some errands then you mowed the front lawn with
Carol’s help on the southwest, west and north sides. You both had light suppers
and watched “Surviving Jack”, “NBC News” and “Blue Bloods”. Let’s let the
neuroquantology slide until GMG.Two and relate it to the marsupial humanoids –
after all they have a twenty thousand year head start. – Amorella
2123 hours. A flash to Dune and the Space Guild Navigators and
their use of melange – the spice that allows them to plot their freighter ships
through space and time.
** **
A Guild
Navigator (alternately Guildsman or Steersmen) is a fictional
humanoid in the Dune universe created
by Frank Herbert. In this series and its derivative works, starships called
heighliners employ a scientific phenomenon known as the Holtzman effect to
“fold space” and thereby travel great distances across the universe
instantaneously. Humans mutated through the consumption of and exposure to
massive amounts of the spice melange. Navigators are able to use a limited form
of prescience to safely navigate interstellar space. Control of these
Navigators gives the Spacing Guild its monopoly on interstellar travel and
banking, making the organization a balance of power against the Padishah
Emperor and the assembled noble Houses of the Landsraad.
Selected and edited from WikiMedia –
Guild Navigator
** **
No, orndorff. Why do something that has already been done? – Amorella
2152
hours. How can the concept become important in GMG.Two?
What need is there for a spaceship to go
from point A to point B when the heart can travel anywhere instantly. – Amorella
2156 hours. This idea is a fantasy, not science fiction.
Ship discovers a formula whereby he can ride
someone’s heart. There is no need of spice for navigation. – Amorella
2159 hours. But Ship is a machine.
It is easier for a machine, so Ship considers,
to focus on the place the thought originates no matter what universe it
originates in. We border on the zone of the Betweeners. - Amorella
2203
hours. This is out of my league. I know Ship has a sense of Yermey’s humanity –
his heartansoulanmind – but how can he develop this?
Ship can by developing and using the physics of ‘thought’. This is not something
people can do because they are the thinkers. Ship thinks he might be able to go
along for the ride because his ‘thinking’ is artificial not natural. This is
akin to watching birds fly naturally and then building the machinery to mimic
the flight – a plane. – Amorella
2210 hours. I am not sure this makes sense. Are you saying that Ship
‘believes’ that the Thunder Myth is true?
He does, so he is going to attempt to prove
this first by riding a thought from what it is back to its original birth, so
to speak. He comes to think that the thought originally came from the Lightning
before the Thunder. – Amorella
2214 hours. This is . . . I don’t know what it is. Wow. I will have to
let this sink in.
If you can use DNA to trace one’s ancestor’s
then there must be something in ‘grammar and reason’ to trace a thought back –
in some ways analogous to studying the development, or rather tracing a word back
to its original to its original Indo-European word for example. Word meanings
change and so do thoughts. This is the sort of logical principle that Ship
begins with. But he is an outsider, in some ways, like I see myself in space
and time. Betweeners, in my definition are between Before and Space and Time in
the Thunder Myth.
2225 hours. I have other questions but I need to think them over before
I ask one of them.
You are concerned that someone will steal
these concepts. – Amorella
2226 hours. No. I think I feel I have an ownership of them, but in
reality, they are not mine. My apprehension is that someone could take all
these Merlyn books and write a better story than I can. In fact, there is no
question about it in my mind at all. – I don’t care. Shoot. Someone can steal
any of this and use it in her or his own work. Let them. If they write a better
story, then more power to them. I couldn’t do any of this on my own anyway. You
bring up interesting aspects though, that I would not think of by myself. You
keep this fun and challenging and interesting, at least to me. Thank you.
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