Deja Vu AscendancyChapter 413: Ninth Merge To 160 Minds; In A Three-Way free porn video
Wednesday, May 7 (Continued) to Saturday, May 17, 2008
One Of MarkB (continuing to use the A, B, C pre-merge naming convention):
One Of Us:
[[In the dimensions that Mark B and Mark C were based, nothing had happened. Copies of A's minds had already been in both B's and C's heads - and B's and C's minds in each other's heads too - and both sets of three carried on talking among themselves. They thought they were talking across the W-Dimension but they were wrong. Somewhere else in the Universe, Mark A's body had died, and the A, B and C sets of minds in his brain had died along with it, but that had no noticeable effect on anything in B's and C's dimensions. The two conversations quoted above both refer to "One of MarkB": in B's dimension it was an original mind, in C's dimension it was a copy of a B mind. The cross-dimensional synchronization process between minds that now no longer existed had naturally stopped, but that was far too low level to be noticed. Several seconds from now there won't be the echo caused in the B and C dimensions when A's minds would otherwise have had a refreshing copy arrive, but the echoes caused by refreshing copies from the B and C dimensions will disguise A's absence, especially as we're not used to three-way déjà vu's.]]
One Of Us:
One Of MarkC:
One Of Us:
As I'd listed the possibilities when I described my first three-way déjà vu, we - all the Marks I'd discussed it with - thought there were three possible outcomes:
A's minds would go to B and C in some proportion, e.g., 50/50, 0/100, 100/0, or a random allocation. We called this the "Proportion" possibility.
A would just die, with his minds extinguishing. Called "Mind-death".
A's minds go to BOTH B and C. Called "Duplication".
B and C were still in a déjà vu link and we were all still talking to each other [[in two local conversations rather than the one cross-dimensional conversation we thought we were having]]. Upon A's death, the proximity ranges that the two sets of B and C were experiencing didn't reduce, so we all instantly knew that A's minds must still be contributing to the total, so the Mind-death possibility hadn't occurred. The proximity's ranges hadn't increased as a result of more minds coming into existence either, so the Duplication possibility also hadn't happened. That meant it was immediately apparent that the Proportion possibility must have been what happened.
To put some numbers on it to make sure you understand this rather weird situation. As we understood the process, before A had killed himself, there'd been 128 minds in A's head, 32 in B's, 32 in C's, totaling 192 across the two links, which had given all three of us a proximity range of 144 feet. That range not changing now meant that A's minds were still active, otherwise 32-minded B and C would be déjà vu'ing as had happened countless times in déjà vu's between 32-minded Marks, always giving them a proximity range of 48 feet. We were VERY happy that the proximity range hadn't dropped from 144 feet to 48.
If all of A's minds had gone to both B and C (i.e., duplicated), then B and C would have 32 + 128 = 160 minds each. As they're in a déjà vu with each other, then proximity should've increased in range and resolution to be consistent with 320 minds being in the link. Proximity hadn't improved, so we knew duplication hadn't happened.
To be logically complete, there is a possibility that the Duplication might have happened but our abilities hadn't increased because repeats of the same mind don't increase abilities, but if that was the case then that might as well be considered as the Proportion possibility because it defeats my purpose for dying in a three-way as the "+32 Then Double Up" system wouldn't give me any extra abilities or probably any extra understanding of those abilities.
We were sad the proximity range hadn't jumped up, as that meant we'd have to continue our journey at +32 minds each Death-merge - we'd REALLY been hoping to avoid some "Goodbyes."
There were obviously still 192 minds apportioned between B and C somehow. We couldn't easily tell the allocation using mental communication because we can't easily distinguish communication across dimensions from local communication [[hardly surprising]]. With our having so many minds, the echo effect is so infrequent that counting off which minds experience it would take far too long [[and would be very confusing too, as it's based on incorrect assumptions]]. We could've gotten B and C to hold up different hands and had the A minds count off who could see the left hand being raised and who the right, but 128 minds to count through were too many to bother with, and we'd easily find out where A's minds had gone after the déjà vu finished. [[Had we done the hand raising experiment, we would've gotten some very confusing results in each dimension when the B or C minds were refreshed from the other dimension. That was the sort of experiment we should have tried years ago, but we'd never tried to falsify our previous assumption about how déjà vu linked our minds across dimensions. We liked to think of ourselves as having a scientific perspective, and we could parrot that books said that good scientific hypotheses must be falsifiable, but were too young and inexperienced to properly apply book-learning to our own life.]]
When I'd been A, at the start of the three-way, the time I'd allowed for my families' goodbye speeches had necessarily been reduced to leave a small safety margin because déjà vu durations are somewhat erratic. Now that I was dead as MarkA, the surviving B and C probably still had a small amount of time to keep talking. It wouldn't be long as B would disconnect from the link shortly, presuming that A's death and the arrival of his minds at wherever they'd arrived at didn't change the timing. We (I can write "we" because my minds are still in the link somewhere) spent the last few seconds discussing what to do next under a few obvious scenarios:
If A's minds allocated 100/0, 50/50 or some other proportion.
If we déjà vu'd with each other again or not.
For example, a 50/50 split would leave 96 minds in each body, which was a backward step from the 128 the Voyager had previously attained, but hopefully we'd déjà vu together as that'd permit our merging to 192 minds. That would also be the case if the allocation of A's minds had been something other than 50/50, but if too far to either extreme then B and C might not déjà vu together as the smaller-minded of them would be closer to the huge number of 32-minded Marks.
We decided that if we did déjà vu again quickly, we'd not merge immediately but would study how often we déjà vu'd first, before we flipped a coin to decide which way the merge went.
If we didn't déjà vu, then the one of us with the most minds would continue the Voyage. If we had the same number of minds then we'd generate a random number and use the inter-dimensional grapevine to find out which of us had the highest number, and he'd carry on with the journey.
There were more details and options, and the conversation kept us busy until the connection failed. It lasted longer than we expected, but we didn't have a theory about why. It was unlikely to be important, but we'd include that in our subsequent reports for the grapevine to spread, presuming we do manage to contact the grapevine again.
When the link ended, B and C both discovered that their proximity sense had a range consistent with their having 160 minds.
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One Of Them:
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I'll explain that last comment to you: All the Marks have a strong tendency to déjà vu with Marks with similar lives, and that's especially true of the Marks with fewer minds. When we do link with an unusual Mark, he isn't VERY unusual. He reports that he nearly always links with Marks similar to him, but sometimes his peers link to someone unusual. That Mark reports that he links with his peers normally, but sometimes... , etc. It's extremely rare for a Mark to link to someone very different from him, but the stories we get from unusual Mark who've heard about Marks he thinks unusual, who've passed on stories about Marks they've considered unusual, etc., can result in our hearing stories about Marks with VERY different lives from our own. We were now assuming that two - or perhaps even more - of us had rolled twelve 6s, but we'd been sufficiently different from each other that our pools of déjà vu peers hadn't overlapped enough for word to get to each other about there being more than one Voyager. That was surprising because we'd both got word to roll twelve dice, but maybe that idea had been suggested by far more Marks than we'd previously thought, including Marks in very different circumstances. This new information also threw some doubt on our calculations of how many five-merge Marks there were, making the possible value much higher than the billion or so we'd previously thought. We'd pass that concern on through the grapevine, and leave it to the five-merge Marks to reexamine their experimental methodology.
Maddy
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