Deja Vu AscendancyChapter 414: Tenth Merge To 320 Minds; With Duplicate Marks free porn video
Saturday, May 17 (Continued) to Saturday, May 24, 2008
Our head didn't explode from the sudden arrival of 160 new minds, most of whom were duplicates, so that was good. Now that my fingers had done their job so well, I uncrossed them.
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[[(a) Copies of those minds had spent fifty hours in my head over the last couple of weeks, so there was no "sudden arrival" involved. (b) It's not as if duplicate minds were matter and anti-matter, especially because they're not matter at all. Nor are they anything else that's mutually destructive or incompatible. They're just information, and information doesn't mutually self-destruct.
While I think to mention it, nor does information interact unless made to do so, by which I mean that although my proximity range was so large now that it included many other people's minds, we didn't get déjà vu together, nor could we read each other's minds, or anything weird like that. The déjà vu sensation is caused by the Universe's Consciousness actively creating copies, overlapping them, and changing the destination minds to resemble the copies. Just having two people's minds in the same large volume of space doesn't do anything because they aren't similar enough, aren't synchronizing, and there's no interaction between them. 3D space being not quite as real as we think it is, it's even possible to consider brains as overlapping, but there is still no interaction between them. Had telepathy functioned between me and any other minds within my proximity range, then my experiences would have been VERY different indeed, especially if people near me could read my MINDS as easy as I could read theirs!
A related digression that I can't resist is that there is one type of information that does destructively interact: religion. Two people can easily hold incompatible non-religious beliefs, and often do. For example, I might think Jessica Alba is sexier than Jessica Biel, and you might hold the opposite view, but other than our beliefs being logically incompatible there is nothing actively destructive about those views. Religion is different. Adherents of one religion believe not only that all other religions and even variations on their own are wrong, but that those religions should be destroyed. Preferably the heathens and heretics should be converted first, but killing them is also a morally virtuous choice. There's nothing in my thinking that Jessica Alba is the sexiest that makes it a virtue for me to kill the fools who believe otherwise, but because religions are a Big Lie they stridently and deliberately call for the destruction of all their 'opponents' - who don't even need to be in "opposition" as uncaring ambivalence also justifies attack and destruction - lest those opponents expose the lie or the lack of need for it.
That destructiveness is solely a political necessity. As previously mentioned herein, many American Christians believe in reincarnation without experiencing spiritual difficulty - indeed, they believe as they do because it makes them feel better - so inconsistent spiritual beliefs certainly aren't mutually destructive. But should a religious institution decide for its own political purpose to make an issue out of that heresy, then a considerable amount of destruction could result. Christians who had happily believed in both sets of spiritual comfort would suddenly find themselves in self-destructive internal conflict, and if they spoke up in defense of their beliefs, they'd very quickly find themselves in external conflict too since Christians hate heretics even more than they hate people having sex, as proved by the hundreds of years of the Church knowingly letting priests continue to be active pedophiles, but if any one of those priests had given a sermon supporting reincarnation, they would have had the wrath of the Church descend on them.
Imagine what the world would be like if all the politically motivated "Fight Evil" rhetoric had been left out of religions, leaving only "Try to be a Good person." I imagine a far better society would have resulted, and I consider the enormous intolerance, hatred and conflict caused by the world's popular religions proof of the unreality of their claimed gods. The best that could be said about them is, "If the views urged by their holy books are divinely inspired, as they claim, then I want nothing to do with those gods."]]
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My brain didn't feel physically, intellectually or emotionally pressured; or full, short-circuited, insane, or any other bad things. It just seemed like business as usual, except more than usual. Even when the duplicate minds addressed conversations back and forth directly at each other, it didn't feel unusual, other than we'd expected it to feel unusual in a way we've never expected before, so that was unusual. We're usually pretty accurate in our expectations, so getting this one wrong was unusual too. But other than that unusual number of unusual feelings, nothing felt unusual, as is usual after the déjà vu's we usually have, which are very unusual ones compared to the usual ones everyone else usually has, although even their usual ones feel unusual enough. To summarize: if we hadn't known that the minds were duplicates, we'd never have detected it conversationally. We just seemed like yet another Mark-mind to each other.
We confirmed that our abilities were the same as we'd experienced in the déjà vu's. The last time I gave exact values was when I had 128 minds. Having 320 now was an increase of 2.5 times, so my abilities had risen by factors of 2.5, 6.25 or 15.625, depending on the ability:
My proximity range is now 240 feet and even more INCREDIBLY detailed. Especially biologically, but I'm getting a great deal of information about energy and matter now too. [Although I wasn't yet consciously aware of it, I was also becoming extremely accurate at estimating distances especially within my proximity range, and was developing a much better sense of time.]
My maximum ki-effects range is 734 feet. Every increase is welcome as this limit is often inconveniently short.
There are 320 fingertips per mind, so over 100,000 in total now. Maximum width is 160 inches (over 13 feet or 4 meters!). Minimum width 1/160th of an inch, which is VERY sharp, as my thumb can attest. Fortunately I heal very quickly.
The Blinks Allowed Effect is 53 minutes. I could create an NP-effect and damn near fly around the world to find it still working when I got back!
My maximum force is nearly ten million kilograms (11,000 tons).
The amount of heat and light I can radiate is 4800 x 60 W lightbulbs of heat, x 2.85 (with the training bonus) x 320 minds = 263 megawatts. That's 22% of the output of the newest nuclear reactor to go online. Another mental double-up - not that there currently seems to be anyone to double-up with - would increase my total output by a factor of 8, so well past that of the reactor. There are several small countries that use less power than I can output now! Thinking about that was almost enough to give me a meltdown.
Déjà vu's with 32-minded Marks should - I hope - occur every two and a bit hours, and have durations of about 5 minutes. We'd learned from the 160-mind to 32-mind déjà vu's that the durations weren't as long as we'd expected mathematically. We guessed that the link was being lost earlier than expected because the 'weak' Marks couldn't hold it open. [[A bad guess.]]
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[[The déjà vu occurred roughly at the time we'd calculated because the chance of déjà vu'ing with a 'lower' Mark wasn't any less when there were no peers to 'compete' with the process. Peers are highly favored for linking because they are so similar, but if there are no peers, then linking downward is necessary, with them still occurring at the time they should, as the universe 'knows' the next déjà vu is a downward one (it has already made the link's precursor, just not the part of it that we're conscious of because no content is copied across until the times we're used to). Identicality between participants necessarily becomes less important as the number of potential link partners reduces. The Universe balances seeking volumes of consciousness which are as similar as possible with the rates of change between dimensions and the time since their last synchronizations, so sometimes only roughly similar is good enough. In my current case, "as similar as possible" wasn't very similar anymore.]]
Déjà vu's with 32-minded Marks continued to occur roughly every two hours, all starting with my partners' minds being blown by the new level of proximity ability, as I've quoted above. We waited to see if a three-way would occur in ten days, more or less.
Having to wait ten days, and having far more minds, I put some solid effort into seeing if I could develop new abilities or improve our existing ones even further. My NP-fingertips were now strong and flexibly-shaped enough that I could make machines out of them, such as an NP-wheelbarrow, complete with a wheel and frictionless axle. I had easier ways of carrying stuff than pushing it in an invisible or mirrored wheelbarrow, but I enjoyed that I could make a very good one. I even gave it a 'spring' suspension, just because it was fun to invent two different ways of doing that which didn't require my conscious management to operate (I'll leave imagining how I did that as an exercise for the reader).
Proximity let me notice that my body's sleeping mechanisms were operating at low levels continually. With that, and with Mr. No One so capable of running things without my real minds involved, I tried an experiment where for an extended time I didn't order the body to activate its sleeping mechanisms and none of my individual minds put themselves to sleep. There were no apparent effects, ill or otherwise, so my body and minds seemed to have improved enough that sleep was no longer needed.
I wasn't sharing these things with my girls. I'd be leaving soon and stability seemed better. It'd be easier on me to live without their excitement now, and after I'd gone they'd have less uncertainty about what had been going on. They weren't strong reasons, but I didn't have a strong reason to show them my ability improvements. As I had been every night since I'd discovered how to rotate my sleeping, I was still going to bed when my girls did. I'd told them that I liked going to bed with them and that I'd do some study before I fell asleep (I didn't tell Nevaeh the latter point), which was true, with "before I fell asleep" meaning much longer than they thought. I enjoyed being in bed with my girls while they dropped off around me, and I was happy to tell them that I enjoyed it.
I was hiding my new abilities from everyone, even Sensei. All the five-merge Marks had restarted Aikido in all their w-dimensions after the Surveillance Problem had been solved, so I 'walked into' that after each of my Voyaging merges. In each dimension, once I'd told my families I was leaving, I'd stopped Aikido and all other external activities to spend more time with my loved ones, and I'd stop it here at that time too, but for the present I kept training once a week. I didn't need Aikido in any practical sense, but I did it for the enjoyment. I was still learning new Aikido principles from time to time, and was enjoying being impressed by them. I was hiding nearly all of my ki from Sensei simply by radiating the vast majority of it out of the top of my head, leaving only the amount for techniques that 10A had previously shown Sensei. That was extreme enough.
Speaking of flying - which I wasn't but I often think about it - I no longer needed to use my watch to navigate with because I quickly became much better at knowing exactly where I was, including altitude. It wasn't quite the same as having a built-in GPS because it worked by keeping track of my movements with an extraordinarily accurate sense of direction, but it seemed just as precise. I also didn't need my watch to tell the time as my brain started keeping perfect track of that too. There were several other minor improvements in existing human abilities like that, but none of any real significance, and knowledge of how to do them couldn't be passed on through the grapevine.
A week later, while I was still waiting for the first three-way déjà vu to occur to confirm that they were possible in my new situation, I was having my usual succession of two-hourly déjà vu's when the next one was late. After three hours I started noticing its tardiness. No big deal as that sometimes happened. After four hours it was very noteworthy as déjà vu's are almost never this far apart (as a multiple of the expected time), but maybe I was going to have a déjà vu with an even lower-minded Mark although I thought that event to be extremely unlikely. After five hours I was becoming worried. The previous déjà vu's had been normal; boringly so because all the Marks had reacted the same excited way. There'd been no hint of any internal or external trouble. It wasn't possible that I was waiting to déjà vu with a four- or three-merge Mark because all five-merge Marks had died. Enough of the five-merge Marks were in lives sufficiently different from each other that there couldn't possibly have been a fatal threat that'd taken them all out. Much more likely was there being a simpler cause, the two obvious ones being something to do with the déjà vu process itself, or with me. As more time passed without a déjà vu, my money was increasingly on me.
I studied my proximity sense's image of my brain very carefully, but I couldn't sense anything wrong. My resolution is roughly at the cubic millimeter level (a cube 1/25th of an inch in each direction), which is small - there are a HUGE number of cubic millimeters in a human body - but it's still too large to see what's going on inside a brain. I could see my heart operating in wonderful detail, but brains aren't big lumps of working organic machinery. (If you think proximity sensing at the cubic millimeter level is so mind boggling as to be impossible to manage, ask yourself what resolution your eyes see down to. Most computer panels have 96 dots per inch, so nearly 4 per linear 25th of an inch, making about 15 per square millimeter. You have no trouble managing blocks of 15 pixels, and can manage considerably smaller areas than that. Processing all the square millimeters you see doesn't boggle your mind, and neither does my proximity sense cause any of my minds to do any boggling.)
There was more blood flow around my higher-thought centers than normal, but not to a large degree. I created a zero emission light blob while watching my brain carefully. I noticed that the area of my brain involved in creating ki-effects was smaller than normal, which immediately made that area of my brain that registers fear get very busy. With considerable fear that I was losing them, I quickly tested my special abilities. They all worked perfectly, but didn't use as much of my brain as before.
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The special abilities' area of my brain continued to slowly get smaller while I scratched my head for the next two hours, getting nowhere.
The abilities area kept getting smaller, and then the NP-fingertips I was using on the downstairs study's scrolling keyboard self-canceled. I tried to recreate them in the downstairs study and failed. I tried creating them right in front of me and failed again. More minds tried and failed, again and AGAIN!
Blobs and other things still worked - I had been studying and could still see the screens - but NP was dead so I couldn't scroll them, which was the least of our worries right now.
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Ten minutes later, the sight blob canceled and couldn't be restarted.
Other than frantically failing at restarting my special effects and swearing a LOT, I ranted at myselves and tried desperately to think of an explanation which might lead to a possible solution. Everything got me precisely nowhere.
Fifteen minutes after that, my proximity sense blanked out. Five minutes later the last special ability I had left, my sense of location and direction, failed.
I spent the next several minutes being equally successful at thinking of ways to get my abilities back as I'd been at stopping them leaving in the first place.
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