tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80428970223154370192024-03-14T05:30:41.785-04:00A Life in Full?Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12256353329907715827noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8042897022315437019.post-4450867533354159702013-12-08T10:07:00.000-05:002013-12-08T10:07:38.485-05:00Keep On Top<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">As I noted in the sister blog to this -- <a href="http://nanocopying.blogspot.com/">http://nanocopying.blogspot.com</a> </span><span style="font-size: large;">-- I found two sets of handwritten notebooks </span><span style="font-size: large;">in a box of material left in a
remote storage facility I had rented. This is the second set, and you might want to look at </span></span><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">nanocopying.blogspot.com </span></span>first to give you the background of this blog. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The earliest post here more or less matches<a href="http://nanocopying.blogspot.com/2013/07/finally-day-is-here.html"> the July 26 post </a>in nanocopying.blogspot.com -- so start at the bottom of this blog <a href="http://renanocopying.blogspot.com/2013/07/ok-youre-done-jim-comes-in-quickly-and.html">here</a> with the July 26 entry which is the date I typed it and posted it here. The notebook pages themselves lack dates.</span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12256353329907715827noreply@blogger.comLower Merion, PA, USA40.019135576026 -75.24694919586181640.017615576026 -75.249470695861817 40.020655576026 -75.244427695861816tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8042897022315437019.post-90156756701289204452013-12-08T10:06:00.005-05:002013-12-08T10:06:59.609-05:00ED. NOTE ...Only look at this note if you started the story in the original blog <a href="http://nanocopying.blogspot.com/2013/07/page-1.html">here</a>.<br />
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As of this point, the first set of notebooks pick up the story again...so <a href="http://nanocopying.blogspot.com/2013/12/december-1.html">here</a> is a link to the post in the original blog which carries the story forward...<br />
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If you are keeping track overall, the structure is:<br />
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- earliest entry, which started this story, in the first blog <a href="http://nanocopying.blogspot.com/2013/07/page-1.html">here</a>, <br />
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- then this blog starts <a href="http://renanocopying.blogspot.com/2013/07/ok-youre-done-jim-comes-in-quickly-and.html">here</a> and the first blog continues <a href="http://nanocopying.blogspot.com/2013/07/july-26-9-pm.html">here</a>, both in tandem for two entries,<br />
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- then this blog only continues the story <a href="http://renanocopying.blogspot.com/2013/09/september-15.html">here</a>,<br />
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- and now the story reverts back to the first blog <a href="http://nanocopying.blogspot.com/2013/12/december-1.html">here</a>.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12256353329907715827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8042897022315437019.post-26393416001090447482013-09-23T22:04:00.000-04:002013-10-13T22:04:45.987-04:00September 23<style>
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It is early in the morning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The last time we met was a couple days ago when every one was burned
out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now everyone looked better,
sharper. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Except Theo, who was looking
at us all affably though his large screen presence, just about the same way he
was the other day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He hadn’t been burned
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“Good morning all, and I am glad to see everyone looks more
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“I have a few thoughts on this matter, I began, but before I
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“I have something Mark,” said <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Terence Moore,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a microbiologist who was probably the third
or fourth smartest person in the room, “I was thinking through the procedure
and I kept getting stuck on one point, which to my mind seems fatal to the entanglement
analysis – with all due respect to you and Theo”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and Terence turned his chair and bowed his
upper body slightly to Theo in respect; Theo nodding at the gesture.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“From what I heard about entanglement the other
day, and the little research I could do on it, and it is NOT my area, isn’t entanglement
between two particles?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How could there
be entanglement here<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was three way
copying – between original Mark – sorry Mark – the mold – and Nano mark – sorry
Mark again.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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immediately.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“well, that is very very
good thought.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And although very basic,
it is right --- from what we have seen entanglement won’t work in threes but in
twos and possibly n multiples of two, four, eight, etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And it is something I went through myself yesterday
and almost called you all then to bring it to your attention.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And he paused.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Shit I thought.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Could I really have missed something that
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“But,” he said, and I realized as soon
as he said it that Terence’s assumption was in error because the copying
process wasn’t that simple.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Theo went
there too…</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“The copying process isn’t that simple;
there isn’t a one-for one correspondence between the mold and the original, or
the mold and the copy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Think of a
scaffolding, which Mark explained to me the other day is really the mold – more
than one piece of scaffolding may be used to surround a building – four
straight places for example maybe used to surround a single thing like a
chimney – assuming for the moment a chimney s a single thing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is no one to one correspondence.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Similarly, a number of nano may
surround a single nerve cell, or deeper a single nerve axon, or even deeper a
single molecule of neurotransmitter contained within the axon, or even deeper a
single proton contained within the single molecule, etc. etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is no link formed there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Where the link is formed is in the
transmission to the next piece, because, believe it or not, entanglement can occur
in an indirect fashion – through other arts, known as entanglement swapping.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I am willing to get into that in detail
including the projective measurement I Think that occurs ….”</span></div>
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sure that is necessary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In other words, Terence
has a real question, you considered it, but you think it isn’t really a problem,
although it is a reasonable question.”</span></div>
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“the answer to the problem you raise was only discovered very recently so congratulations…did
you say you are not a particle physicist?”</span></div>
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smiled weakly while the rest of the room laughed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Despite his obvious intelligence, Terence’s
math ability was pretty limited – legendarily so in an incident involving his interpretation
of certain test results a few months ago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But I saw no reason to go there now.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“No Theo he isn’t, but he is very very
smart.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Looking around.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Does anyone have anything else on this?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Any other questions?”</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“After we left the other day I was
thinking about options.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And some of them
you will read about in my diary entries, because even though Mark isn’t here to
keep a comparative one it is still helpful for your review.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I thought about making a mold of me, and
making another me out is mark’s mold, and other things but each of those have
potential problems and could add more variables – not to mention more people
--<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and we seem to have enough of both
right now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So then I lay down for a few minutes,
cause I am still not sleeping but I do find the need for some rest.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I saw Karen nodding out of the corner of my
eye. “You probably caught a spike in mark’s brain activity right about
then?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And she nodded.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Yes, that would make sense, said Theo.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I saw a few puzzled looks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>:that is because Mark and I are opposites remember
and if I am resting he will be active…but unfortunately I can’t sleep totally –
it goes the other way too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In any
event,” I went on not concerned right now with explaining that, “as I lay there
thinking about not much, except how odd it was that I was observing myself
though my diary, and of course how observation is very important o the quantum
method…”</span></div>
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me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Expect Theo, who was lost in contemplation,
“yes, yes” he was saying.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“It might just
work.”</span></div>
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what you are talking about,” Jim said.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Have you even heard of Schrodinger’s
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I turned to the rest of the room.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Schroedinger was a particle physicist, like
Theo up there, who helped establish the now standard model of particle
physics.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Particle Physics is weird –-
another scientist Richard Feynman said if you understand it you don’t understand
it (or some such; Theo correct?)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of
the aspects tight is weirdest is a thought experiment called Schrodinger’s
cat:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The most commonly held interpretation
of quantum mechanics is the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhagen_interpretation" title="Copenhagen interpretation"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Copenhagen interpretation</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat#cite_note-Wimmel1992-5"><sup><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[5]</span></sup></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
In the Copenhagen interpretation, a system stops being a superposition of
states and becomes either one or the other when an observation takes place.
This experiment makes apparent the fact that the nature of </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measurement_in_quantum_mechanics" title="Measurement in quantum mechanics"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">measurement</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">,
or observation, is not well-defined in this interpretation. The experiment can
be interpreted to mean that while the box is closed, the system simultaneously
exists in a superposition of the states "decayed nucleus/dead cat"
and "undecayed nucleus/living cat," and that only when the box is
opened and an observation performed does the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave_function" title="Wave function"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">wave
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[note from me: since some of this
material is even more technical but true her are some links]</span></div>
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issues now is because the particles in my brain are the opposite of those in
Mark’s brain – the entanglement we talked about the other day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, entanglement comes about in the first
instance because the entire range of positions subatomic particles can be in –
or superposition – are collapsed by the link – or something like that, and Theo
I know I am simplifying but that is okay for right now.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Put Mark and me in Schrodinger’s
boxes, where we can’t be observed, we can’t communicate, we are totally and completely
isolated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That state, where no one can
perceive us, will allow to superposition to reform,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and Mark to regain consciousness – lifting
the positions imposed by observation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Total,
Complete. Isolation.”</span></div>
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silent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Theo was nodding rapidly now, following
me, so rapidly that his glasses almost feel off.</span></div>
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stammered.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“I don’t think Schrodinger’s
box has even been proposed as a method of breaking the effects of entanglement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And it really couldn’t be,” he said faster
now, warming to the topic, “because there was no way of determining what was
going on inside a Schrodinger box<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
could put someone in a box sure but since they weren’t entangled it really
didn’t matter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In other words, the non
entangled consciousness state really is the norm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And with a cat, of course, we had no idea what
happened.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And of course we couldn’t try
the same experiment on a person – to determine if he or she is dead or alive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since this sis the first entanglement of consciousness
we are aware of, it is really quite a ground breaking proposal – and solution.”</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I knew you’d like it,” I said.</span></div>
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planning the isolation boxes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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I wouldn’t usually give away the fact I knew something like
the why – the problem we were having and an answer --<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>what I called the only answer but it really
wasn’t -- in the “public” pages I just wrote because it probably would give me
an advantage at some point but on this one I think it will be obvious to others
pretty soon– after all Theo is a Nobel Prize prospect<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>--- once they start thinking this through, so
it might actually help me now to provide the answer to everyone, and to get a
jump start on a final solution.</div>
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So I am going to spend the next few hours and tomorrow if I
have to confirming what I think, and what to do about it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because the first issue for me now is what
to do about it once they implement the solution, since the solution as I figure
it will effectively block me off from others, from life, for an indeterminate
period.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How can I make sure I survive?</div>
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It’s ironic isn’t it?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I – as “original” Mark -- have created me –- nano Mark -- yet I and me
can’t both exist as consciousness’s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
I see “original” Mark as different enough from me, as another person, that I
want to survive, and if original Mark doesn’t cie la vie…as long as it is not
me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The instinct to survive truly is
unique to the organism.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The unique
organism. </div>
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The possibility that we overlooked something like
complementariness “spooky action at a distance” as Einstein called it, was
troubling to the future of the technology and it troubled me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One thing I’m wondering about would be the
effect of cloning me, to see how far the effects might go – would a clone of me
become instantly catatonic?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Would I
become catatonic?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If I did, would
non-nano Mark recover?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Would a clone of
me be just like non nano Mark?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Probably
not to the latter question because that clone wouldn’t be a identical non nano
Mark because events had occurred and time had passed to make me different
enough so that my clone would be different enough from non nano mark so that
those two couldn’t be the same – couldn’t both be identical complimentary
copies of me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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What about reusing the original mold – to make another clone
of non nano mark – a duplicate of me as of the moment I came out?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But the problem with that might be seemed to
be that such a second nano copy of Mark would provide a second pairing of
complimentary particles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mark to me,
and then Mark to the new guy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That might
mess up Mark’s and my pairing, I don’t think a three way pairing is even
possible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So I really didn’t want to go
there – who knew what might happen if we tried.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Three subatomic particles joined together as complimentary…it would be
too risky.</div>
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This was getting to be a little too much.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Send in the clones. Ha.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had to lay down and close my eyes for a
few.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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And I opened them because I suddenly realized the why, the
why of both the problem we were having and the only possible answer to the
problem.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Time to get to work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had the rest of today and tomorrow to
conform before the team met again.</div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We were reconvened.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Good morning all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>First I want to confirm there has been no change
in Mark.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Right?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Karen Romanofski, in charge of
monitoring him, said “For the most part yes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We had a stirring of what we thought was REM at one point last night,
but it settled down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also, some of the
basal markers seemed to show a less deep sleep but that too was pretty short
lived.”</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Thank you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I also want to introduce, </span>up on
the screen <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Theodore Aristes, a particle physicist.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is here to hopefully help us sort this
thing out.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Theodore nodded and a few
people nodded back at the screen.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Now yesterday when we met I gave you
some initial thoughts I had but they weren’t all that well formed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So let me just follow up on those for a minute
or two.”</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“The results in my experiment are
different than the Jekyll and Hyde results.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And mice are different than us, as we know, but they have been used in
experiments for a long time because of the many metabolic similarities between
mice and us, and the ability to control the purity of many mouse characteristics.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But, inadvertently, we may have ignored one
of the greatest differences and in the process made significant progress
towards answering one of the greatest questions in science: What is human consciousness?
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unfortunately, though, the progress
we’ve made involves a question that’s equally big:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>entanglement.“</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I saw light dawning on a couple of
faces and total incomprehension on most of others.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Now this isn’t really my area, and so
I asked Theo to give us background and his analysis.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For those who don’t know him, which may be
all of you, Theo is one of the most eminent scientists in the dark arts of
quantum mechanics, and is an old friend of mine too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He has very little background with our
material specifically, but last <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have
engaged him on an urgent basis to look at this situation and give us his point
of view from a quantum viewpoint.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Which
could lead to a Schroedinger joke here but won’t.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I smile but thinly, because this situation
was worrisome.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Theo?”</span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“I don’t have enough
information to reach a conclusion, and I certainty can’t draw a conclusion
regarding the consciousness issue, but as a first step let’s discuss how a
possible entanglement problem might exist.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I’ve looked at the material from these experiments that I received late
last night, and Mark and I talked this morning about some details.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Initially therefore, I’d like to state a
brief précis of the facts as I understand them, so we all have the same context.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He looked at me from the screen and I nodded.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He nodded too and turned back to the
crowd in front of him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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“Finally, since my review of this material has been very
cursory because of time demands I may have missed some salient points.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If I have, and that becomes apparent, please
let me know. “<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We nodded and he nodded
back and he began.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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“This is quite an intriguing problem because you have an
example of a working prototype – the mouse – which to all intents and purposes
has been successfully copied so that there is no entanglement issue – so that
the copying of the particles has not led to any sort of opposites in the
functioning organisms, the original and the copied.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is correct right?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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We all nodded.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
nodded.</div>
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“But with regard to the next experiment, a person, the
results were not so successful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While
you have a functioning copy,” he nodded at me, and for a brief moment the words
threw me, I didn’t nod back, I am a person dammit, “the original has been
affected so that there is no apparent higher level cognitive functioning,
however, basal functions continue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In other
words, the original is in a comatose like state, but with no need for breathing
assistance.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nod.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nod.</div>
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“Now, there are a number of things to consider.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The first are the differences between the
organisms in the two experiments.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
mouse is no doubt a lower level cognitive organism.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And in fact, the shared basal functions – in
the second experiment, the homo sapiens as I noted still possesses them, are
functioning identically in both.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Therefore the experiment has successfully copied the attributes
necessary for that level of functioning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And that is in accord I think with entanglement, for reasons I will
explain.”</div>
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“First, e<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">ntanglement, for those who don’t know,
is a subatomic phenomenon first identified by Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen in a
1935 paper.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It basically means that two
particles paired at the quantum level and then separated, take on
complimentary, that is opposite, characteristics.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And they do so just about instantaneously,
even separated by thousands of miles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If
you change one, even when they are separated by thousands of miles, or we presume
millions of miles or lights years, the other changes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Faster than light.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Einstein called it ‘spooky action at a
distance.’”</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Originally, the EPR paper postulated
the existence of entanglement to show quantum mechanics was flawed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As you may know Einstein was no fan of
quantum mechanics, and the EPR paper was meant to show that quantum theory,
when taken to conclusions that the math demanded, ran out of control, because
it would violate the fundamental limit of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">c</i>,
the speed of light.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“But then a few years later,
entanglement was shown to be a natural phenomenon, to actually exist in nature,
in series of experiments by Alain Aspect(?).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And it’s been experimentally verified more than once, and by a number of
scientists, so now it is accepted as an unexplained anomaly of quantum
mechanics.”</span></div>
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“Entanglement, like most of quantum mechanics, has nothing
to do with most of what happens into the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The fact that single, or small numbers of particles, act oppositely from
each other, as is the case in an entanglement scenario, has nothing to do with
the world in most instances because most of what happens in the world isn’t
because of single particles, or small numbers of particles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rather, most of what happens in the world is
because of numbers of particles, large numbers of particles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After all, a human hair is about one million
atoms wide – and each atom is comprised of many subatomic particles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And so the interactions between all those particles
average out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And that is why the basal
functions which are a result of many many particles still work, after copying,
in the mouse and people. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are
averaged and entanglement cancels out because there are some many of them.”</div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There was a slight movement by one of
the people in the room.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Carolyn Chen, a mathematician
and one of the brightest in the room.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
nodded at her.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“So what you are saying,”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>she said slowly, “is that you and Mark” and
she looked at me a little uncertainly, cause I am Mark, “consist of paired,
subatomic particles, that it isn’t an issue for autonomic particles, because otherwise
we would have seen anomalous metabolic results, that otherwise in fact….” And
she trailed off and I nodded to show her it was okay, “in fact,” she said, speaking
less hesitantly now, “your systems would have failed and you never would have
been biologically operative, nor Jekyll and Hyde, now the more primitive
organisms, the planarian and the amoebas, etc. etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because none of them have anomalies that we have
observed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Therefore, your cognitive
processes, and one presumes, any human cognitive processes, that are affected
here…” and she tapered off, lost in thought.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Theo nodded.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Very good and that’s right.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps there is a quantum link to consciousness
here, which is one of the big questions of life of course, and which has been
explored by such <span class="st">as Stuart Hameroff and Roger </span>Penrose.”</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“In other words,” I got up and said,
“Some of us may have, at times, wondered it we were anything more than a more
complicated animal, that is our quote higher consciousness unquote is simply a
function of having a bigger brain with more connections, etc. – a mechanical
phenomenon.”</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Well, we may have, depending upon the outcome
here, provided significant data to help resolve that issue.”</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And I sat down but the impact of what I
had said wasn’t lost on the team.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They
sat thinking, some of them no doubt about there resume building that would result
from this finding too. </span></div>
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“But before we get to the Nobel Prize for Physiology,” I
called out from my seat, “we haven’t resolved the problem in front of us.” That
helped some of them refocus, and on the screen Theo nodded.</div>
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“That’s right,” he said.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>“And bringing this back to entanglement, as I mentioned a moment ago, these
effect cancel out in the real world – things in the real world are just to big
to be affected because quantum effects are so numerous, coming from so many small
subatomic particles, that even something as dramatic as entanglement has no
effect.”</div>
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“But that’s where human consciousness comes in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To date, we have been unable to quantify consciousness
– it is a non computable state.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In other
words, and to simplify, we have no idea how to create my sensation of blue in
your brain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We can point to neurons that
fire when blue is seen, but we have no idea how to get from there to blue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because it’s so far been seen as non-computable
therefore, some theories have arisen, like the one from <span class="st"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Hameroff
</span></span>and Penrose, that I mentioned before, which is that consciousness
may occur through superposition of quantum coherent states until a specific
threshold is reached, the states then collapse…”</div>
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I had looked around and noticed we were losing some people,
even with the excitement in the room.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So
I interrupted Theo.</div>
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<br /></div>
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“Theo, I appreciate the background, but I don’t think we can
get too deeply into it right now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let’s assume
for a moment, that whatever the mechanism, quantum effects occur in consciousness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Could you give us a moment or two on entanglement?”</div>
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“Of course, of course.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Entanglement<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> is a term for the situation where two
of the same quantum particles are linked, as far as we can tell,
permanently.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you measure one of them,
like a proton, you will fix its state.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That
is fundamental quantum physics, based on the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle,
because observations fixes qualities in the particle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you, at the same time as your measurement,
look at the particle the measured particle is linked to, you will find out it
is in the exact opposite state of the particle you have just measured.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Instantly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Faster than the speed of light.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Now, if entanglement has occurred
here, and I cannot yet say it has, but it may have, because of the nature of
the copying process, and consciousness itself is dependent upon a quantum
process, then it would make sense that the conscious Mark’s quantum particles”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and he nodded at me, but I didn’t much feel
like nodding back, “is determining the quantum state of the other Mark though entanglement,
and so rendering unconscious Mark, well unconscious.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Theo sat back.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“How can you be so sure on such short
notice?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>said Terence Moore,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a microbiologist who was almost as smart as
Carolyn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“You have hardly had any time
to look at this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And why is nano Mark”
he didn’t bother looking at me, “the one who’s conscious?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And wouldn’t the averaging of quantum effects
you spoke abut earlier mean that there wouldn’t be an effect on a big organism
like a Mark’s brain?”</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Thank you,” I said, and there were a
few chuckles, breaking the tension in the room a little.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Of course, I can’t be sure at all,”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Theo said<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Those are all good questions deserving of further study.” </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I stood up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“And that is a good place to end this,” I
said.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“I want us to work on those questions
and anything else that has occurred to us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And I want to take a day or more to do that, and to nail down whether entanglement,
and no offense Theo”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I nodded at him, he
nodded back, “is truly at issue. “</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I gave them a breakdown of assignment
over the next two days, thanked Theo, who would be working with our team now
too, and called the meeting over.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everyone
filed out, a little less tense it seemed than they were earlier.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I turned to Jim, who had stayed
behind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“What do you think?” I asked.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He shook his head.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“I don’t know what to think. “</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Me neither,” I said, “but it’s a
start.”</span></div>
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I need to know what is going on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think I do but I am getting a little
scattered.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So I laid down and closed my
eyes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I thought I was tired enough
to get some sleep but as I lay in bed, I couldn’t sleep.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I forced
my eyes to stay closed and tried to focus on the random blobs I saw floating in
the dark behind my eyelids.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were
like the stuff of the old lava lamps, or the beginning of the old TV show The Prisoner,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>solid white but changing their shapes, splitting
off from each other and rejoining in a slowly moving symphony.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I watched, trying to empty my mind of
thoughts, of thinking, just going downward.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But I was still conscious of being awake, still aware of my body lying
in bed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The blobs started to coalesce
into shapes, less fluid, more rigid, that began to seem understandable but were
just out of reach.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I thought I should
know what they are but I didn’t.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One
changed further, into a snake, eating its own tail, a circular thing, but it
wasn’t alarming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Later, when I woke I
knew that was my clever little reference to Kekule and his discovery of the
benzene ring – which happened for him as he slept.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But all the images started to become circular
and I realized they weren’t snakes but were starting to look like snowflakes, all
sizes big and small, floating down my field of vision, against a field of
black.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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And like a holiday movie my field of vision pulled back,
pulled back through a window into a room where the snow was falling outside, into
a classroom with Father Blearly.</div>
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And so what do you think hell is he asked and looked at me
at his face grew larger and larger until it was almost floating in front of me
where I was sitting in my old spot back in my fourth grade’s classroom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His face receded, “Dante said Hell is
frozen.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And he gestured outside.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“The center of Hell is a frozen place where
Satan sits, trapped, without a voice without any power.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As Virgil said <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">those in Hell have
lost the good of intellect; the substance of evil, the loss of humanity,
intelligence, good will, and the capacity to love.”</span></div>
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“They have no connection with another, no connectedness with
anyone else,” the priest looked around.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>“Have any of you experienced that feeling?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Have any of you felt that place?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I thought he looked at me “no one else
there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Certainly not love.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And not even hate.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His voice dropped.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“No feeling at all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nothing to touch, no one to feel.” </div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And I sensed in the dream classroom
rather than saw Maria’s face looking at me, and still the snow outside the
window fell and fell and the florescent classroom lights cast an artificial
pallor, an artificial green pallor within he room.</span></div>
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And the green grew stronger but it wasn’t a healthy green it
was a sick artificial light green.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
the room got larger and larger about me, but the things in it got simpler and
simpler and fewer and fewer, and the only people I actually knew as people, the
others were just shadows, were Blearly and sort of Maria in the background
radiating feelings of concern I could feel.</div>
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My breath got shorter and shorter and I had to get out because
I had been in that place and was there now devoid of feeling, empty, hell felt
so empty nothing, and now I felt nothing from anyone Maria’s sympathy gone no
feeling.</div>
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I woke up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I lay there
still breathing hard and the images faded but not so quickly that I couldn’t
remember them and I forced myself to get up and write them down here.</div>
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So it looks like Mark is down and I don’t know why, which is
frustrating because I thought I had done all the calculations before, all the
variables taken account of, all the testing successful, and what wasn’t initially
successful was identified and fixed and made successful.</div>
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We’ve been trying to figure this out for about 48 straight hours
now and a few minutes ago Jim and I met, for a review of everything, one more review,
just us.</div>
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“I don’t know what it could be,” he said, throwing the last
test he looked at on the stack of a million others, test after test, report
after report, before and after.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had
scoured them all, again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nothing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nothing seemed anomalous – now we were only
speculating.</div>
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Jim looked at me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>“How are you feeling?”</div>
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“Okay,” I said.</div>
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“We haven’t seen any entries from you for awhile,”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>he said.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>“Mind bringing that up to date?”</div>
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I nodded.</div>
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A minute or two went by.</div>
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“You haven’t slept,” he said.</div>
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“Neither have you.”</div>
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He gave me a crooked smile.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>“More than you.”</div>
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I smiled back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Without
real humor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“You know how I can be when
there’s a problem.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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“Yea, but even then you usually sleep some.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I shrugged.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>“I’ve slept a little.”</div>
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“Really?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How
much?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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“I’ve laid down for about an hour or so.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I said.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>“And I’m not tired so much as fatigued, my mind going in too many directions,
not enough organization.”</div>
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“Ironic, isn’t it?” Jim said, staring absently.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“You can’t sleep, and that’s all that’s
Mark’s doing.”</div>
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I sat up a little straighter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“That’s it,” I said.</div>
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<br /></div>
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“What?” Jim looked at me focused now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
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<div class="MsoNormal">
“Mark is sleeping and I am awake.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’re opposites.”</div>
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“Ummm not really?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Jim said, “You’re both alive and breathing.” </div>
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“No, no, no, that’s okay,” I said.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“That part is like Jekyll and Hyde, if you
assume a mouse has no higher order cognitive functions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Which
I guess we should,” I said as an aside.</div>
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“What are you taking about?”</div>
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“Look,” I said with growing excitement, “I think I have
it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I need sometime to think it
through and do a little research.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let’s
gather everyone for a meet in the boardroom in ninety minutes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If I’m right we’ll have made progress on a
couple of other things too.” </div>
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We met in our boardroom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There was little social pleasantry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Everyone was tired by the challenge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>After all, I was the mind that had brought us this far, and now the mind
was down, even though I was standing in front of them.</div>
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“Hi, everyone,” I began.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>“I am here and good, if you are wondering.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I am also lying in the other room too,
and that’s why you’re here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m not
going to waste a lot of your time, except to talk about a direction I think we
need to explore.”</div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Now earlier today Jim and I were
talking and I realized there was something different between Mark and I.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And it’s obvious – he is sleeping – in a
comatose state, while I am awake.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am
not being medically precise here, but Marks’ metabolic functions are good, yet
he is unconscious.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And we see scattered
signs of brain activity, something like we might see from young Luke here.” I
smiled to indicate it was a joke, and there were a few scattered smiles.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“What is puzzling is of course, is the
contrast between his and my state.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
have slept very little, about an hour in the past forty eight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I know some of you haven’t either or very
little because of this situation, and thank you for that, but I haven’t even
really felt the need.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am fatigued and
my mind is and was a little scrambled from too much input and not enough
organization, but I’m not really suffering from the lack of sleep.”</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Now, reviewing our protocols, it seems
as if we did everything according to plan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The nano was formed properly, the infusion, the mold, the replication
all went well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And comparing the
protocols to that of Jekyll and Hyde we see no significant deviations, none at
all, yet as you know, both Jekyll and Hyde are both happily coexisting within
their mouse world.”</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“And that’s the difference.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Within their mouse world.”</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I paused and looked around.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everyone was staring at me but no one seemed
to get it yet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I wasn’t sure I did
after all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I just realized my mind was
fatigued – whatever need sleep fulfilled I had to have it after all. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“So here is what we are going to
do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We will all get a good night’s sleep
and reconvene tomorrow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Take your time
getting in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’ll meet in the
afternoon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And think about what is going
on.”</span></div>
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They hustled me out out of the room almost immediately.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For testing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It’s now the night after the procedure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I was finally getting a chance to sit and catch my breath, when Jim walked
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“How you feeling?” he asked.</div>
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“Good,” I said.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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“You tired at all?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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I looked closed at him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>“What’s wrong?”</div>
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“Mark fell asleep almost right after you left the room.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He hasn’t gotten up yet.”</div>
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Me, I was strangely energized.</div>
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“How are you feeling?” he asked looking at me closely.</div>
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“I’m good,” I said.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And I was.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“But me…Mark…”</div>
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“We have our best people looking at him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We haven’t seen anything yet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He appears to be in a deep sleep.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Coma like.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But he isn’t in danger, just….asleep.”</div>
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“Why?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I searched my
memory for anything that might be relevant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>“Why?”</div>
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“We don’t know.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jim
sat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He looked tired.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“We. Don’t. Know.”</div>
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“Bring everything in here.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I said.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“ I want to talk to
everyone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everyone.”</div>
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Jim nodded wearily.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He had accepted me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12256353329907715827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8042897022315437019.post-66749701951859315822013-07-26T20:45:00.003-04:002013-07-26T20:48:08.570-04:00July 26 9:15 pm<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>TEAR OUT PAGE </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">So I think we are both working on a tear out page and an image of Father Bleary is in my mind and I bet he is writing over there about the suffering day. But, and this is odd, I can recall that day –- after all I was there -- but I have no need to revisit it. And I know exactly what day it was because it was the first day that I understood that God had His own reasons, that innocents would suffer regardless. But I don’t care as much anymore. My suffering is, suddenly, gone. The bad feeling in the back of my mind, the bad taste in the back of my mind, the sad burden of regret, of I did something wrong and I can’t make it beater, is gone.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Sally sells sea shells by the sea shore. E=mc2. The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain. Godel’s incompleteness theorem by Kleene states any effectively generated theory capable of expressing elementary arithmetic cannot be both consistent and complete. In particular, for any consistent, effectively generated formal theory that proves certain basic arithmetic truths, there is an arithmetical statement that is true, but not provable in the theory.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I don’t think I am impaired cognitively. The testing should show that. I just feel…different. Lighter. Less weighed down. Less sticky. Like I’ve stopped swimming in molasses. The world is clear and sharp but not with feelings, it just is. I looked up for a minute and saw me writing still. Head still down, I was just watching this -- mostly black haired head, getting a little thin up there. Got to work on that…How do I feel?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I know I, we, are being taped now, and have sensors tracking everything, from BP to HR to temp, etc. etc. So I am not giving anything away by looking up at Jim, trying to sense what I feel, are the diagnostics changing? I better get back on a real page.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>END TEAR OUT PAGE</b></span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12256353329907715827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8042897022315437019.post-63013429093456769742013-07-26T20:43:00.004-04:002013-07-26T20:43:57.241-04:00July 26 9 pm<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Holy crap indeed. Some philosophers might well characterize matter that way.<br />But I am functioning (so far!) and although every one wanted to rush into the room and start testing both of us, we needed a minute, ignoring the many many observations that were being made of us, and simply staring at each other, absorbing the other.<br />I backed away from the door and he did too and we smiled, both of us wanting the other in “their” room. It shouldn’t matter, this territoriality, after all we were made of the same genetic stuff, but I still perceive him now as another.<br />Wow Maria! What now? <br />And all that went though my head in a second, as he waited on the other side of the connecting door and he then suddenly strode through into “my” room, and so come closer to my.<br />I had never seen myself this close before, seen myself as others see me, and the heightened anticipation, the adrenaline, enhanced my perception and for him too as we reached out and grasped each other’s hands and held them for a minute. Reasonably firm grip, skin fairly soft. I rotated his hand and looked at the backside of it, and then he did it back again it was a very odd thing they were the same hand, two of them, in full mirror image, the back of his hand, with its hairs and veins and finger ligaments and knuckles and my fingertips wrapping around them with my visible nails, and rotating the hand, slowly and the wrinkles where the skin is and the color slowly changing to from the lighter palm on his to the darker skin and just the reverse on mine, thumb and forefinger meeting at the exact same angles, on either hand, and looking like a mirror image exactly but in 3D and over to the back of my hand, and every single thing looking the same once I rotated it in my mind, ever hair and vein and ligament and knuckle in the right place but rotated wrong until I figured it out, and then it snapped into place it was exactly the same as mine, wow. An intellectual construction, the nano, essentially little equations putting themselves together into something here and tangible something: me. Wow wow. I was weak all of a sudden and looked around for a chair and he did too, after all we were probably having the exact same reactions.<br />I have made me. “Right?” I asked, and he said it at almost the same time, and we both smiled. Jim looked at us, and I shook my head now, but on the other hand it would be valuable to us, to science to record it now, so I stood up and he did at the same time and walked into his room and I was writing already when he came back.</span></span><br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12256353329907715827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8042897022315437019.post-42596994749800315422013-07-26T20:36:00.000-04:002013-07-26T20:48:28.322-04:00July 26<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ok, you’re done,” Jim comes in quickly and I jump. <br />“That was too quick, something’s wrong.” <br />“No we’re cool sunshine, you just lost it a little, you might have fallen asleep, which wouldn’t be surprising considering the neural flooding of your system.”<br />“Of course not, “ he says, and leaves, to go to the other room. <br />Wait a minute. What did he mean I am done? Which one am I? I jump up, we made these two rooms too identical dammit, now I am confused and I rush to my connecting door and open it…<br />And I look at me, standing there. Staring at me in the doorway.<br />“Hello,” I say. <br />“Hello,” I say back.<br />“Okay,” This is nuts. <br />“I know,” I say and smile. Ha, Wittgenstein you lose. <br />And Jim says holy crap from somewhere and from beyond the window I hear the faint sound of cheering. <br />Holy crap indeed.</span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12256353329907715827noreply@blogger.com0