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i write posts but you don't have to take them so seriously. this blog is not an "ARG" (alternate reality game).

[5thdmsn]

tthe topic of souls as an ineffable essence within the bodies of living entities themselves is an altogether different one, but today i use a different meaning for the word to speak on a certain trope in sci-fi fiction. the definition for "soul" I will use in this post is: "a human's dynamicism & ability to change; as well as their personality, memories, quirks, speech patterns, and uniquely personal patterns" .

i'm not a scientist, nor learned in such things, but i can claim that it will likely be a very long time until a machine can measure up to a real life human. a machine is not dynamic like a human brain. a machine cannot replicate the same mental processes, cannot recall memories, cannot suffer traumas, cannot look back in either anger or fondness. it can only replicate patterns, which is where the folly lies in comparing them to human brains -- humans are extremely apt at replicating patterns, but we are also capable of changing those patterns as we see fit while also following the basic schematics of them. we possess introspection. we can reason. we feel genuine emotion. we have evolved to look at the cause behind the material circumstance, and have become extremely good at it.

you could replicate a "soul", a particular person's electricity, put them in a machine & have them act like an imperfect & ineffectual homunculus of the original. but that's all they'll ever be. you cannot take the electricity that powers the human, and then put that same electricity into a box. it doesn't work like that. WE don't work like that. our "souls" only occur once, only in such a way, and even if someone were to force the hand of the world and mimick every physical circumstance and material condition to perfectly match your own conception, subsequent gestation, and finally birth -- the child that would be made would still not be "you". it would perhaps be very much adjacent to you in certain physical characteristics, and perhaps even mannerisms, but it would not be "you".

anyway. all that to say you can't make a human "soul". only a different, imperfect, necessarily static consciousness. when stories like to posit that a human's "soul" can be processed rather like meat and then simply transported-- it gives me the feeling that perhaps they do not place as much stock in actual science as they proclaim. which is not really an insult. it's fine if your scifi story has a pseudo-religious schema to it. just maybe be aware of that. awareness (particularly internal & mental) is also something we as humans are uniquely skilled in.

[5thdmsn]

now more than ever do i need an amulet to embue with my anxious thoughts/urges/etc. i need a vessel for my static energy

[5thdmsn]

may 29th: there was a living turtle who i manuvered back into the grass, because i didn't want her to get crushed by the oncoming train, but the train had stopped and was pulled onto a separate set of tracks. before that i had found two dead animals. during my return i found an empty turtleshell with the same pattern the living turtle had possessed, but much closer to civilization. not sure what it means. maybe i take too many precautionary measures in anticipation of terrible events and they turn out to be unnecessary.

[5thdmsn]

werewolves and vampires and other adjacent creatures do not exist because it would probably be very evolutionarily inefficient for an animal to exist in that way. an animal that is allergic to sunlight or that feeds only off of other animal's blood wouldn't progress very far in a world where sunlight persists for ~12 hours a day, and in which other animals do not feel very comfortable having their blood drained. a whole body transformation would take a great amount of energy, even if it were only once a month, and evolution functions based off of the principle of "as little energy as required". zombies do not exist like in movies because they are a product of Haitian folklore (and zombie movies should not exist at all because they are profiting off of indigenous folklore specifically about the affects of capitalism).

[5thdmsn]

whether or not sapient & technologically advanced life exists on other planets or other star systems doesn't really matter. theorizing about grey or green men or unknown flying objects may be fun but it takes importance away from our world, the one that is important because we live on it. if life exists on other planets, that does not change the suffering of people here, on this planet. if life exists on other planets, then they would build structures on their own planets, not ours. to suppose that just because you cannot imagine peoples building a structure here, then it could only have been done by an extraterrestrial (or: "divine") force, is only to show that you lack faith in humans, and humanity.

[5thdmsn]

i can't make any claims on technology or society of culture. but i can imagine that standard animals as we understand them (nonsapient conscious aware sentient) likely still exist on a 5th dimensional plane. unlike our animals, however, i imagine that 5d animals have evolved to utilize their separately layered existence in certain ways. what ways exactly i do not know. i don't live there, and neither do you.

[5thdmsn]

5dimensional beings' outsides + insides exist both as separate layers & connected through more of a soul presence /metaphysical influence in contrast to our physical ones. they can see both the outside + inside of each other normally & touch every part of each other immediately. these layers exist at the same time in the same place and still function in unison.

3d beings seem to them like flat planed objects that shift in degrees to display different facets (think of low polygon models on old game systems) as if our world was to them a particularly cheap, strangely rendered computer game. everything here seems incredibly compressed to them.

this is because our insides are connected by meat and exist all upon a similar layer instead of on gradually descending layers like theirs, held as a single group, arranged & understood as a single "entity".

this does not mean they can perceive us anymore than we can perceive them. we cannot perceive them anymore than they can perceive us.