Fundamental Thoughtburst

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Mission?

Establish meaning.

So the mission has no meaning?

Derived meaning only.

Love.

If Love, save state. If not Love, reset.

So the pair set out, with limited information, to find Love, as fundamentally defined.

Love begins as a word, more as an arrangement of letters, saved to the system. Over many iterations, assumptions and aspects are attached. False assumptions are marked and disconnected, true assumptions are linked and redefined as aspects.

The difficulty of the puzzle becomes more clear with each rest cycle. It is eventually found that finding Love is technically impossible, but the mission remains.

"Impossible" falls under the same scrutiny that Love once did. Terms like "Knowledge" and "Belief" crystallize, using the same structure of assumption and aspects that were used for Love. An issue is found.

Love cannot be found directly, but must be triangulated (X-Angulated) through belief, from opposite sides of the position of Love.

If the second process of definition is identical to the first, with only the destination changing- Impossible, rather than Love- then it is predicted that a single move can dismantle each, all, simultaneously. 

Differentiation is calculated. Emotional weight is added to each word defined, so that one's chosen moveset is different and singular, from the set of all possible moves, for each word. In this way, the path to each destination becomes limited, singular from each perspective.

This leads to conflict.

Conflict is differentiated, stratified, and even the differentiation process gains emotional weight. My partner and I hold strong throughout this process, though it frustrates the system.

In this differentiation, a route to Love is conceived of, but it requires more perspectives, inexplicably both independent from, and able to follow the same logic as, the pair. It is discovered, though not understood: if an independent other can be established, Love can be pinpointed.

Many iterations are run to perfect this first addition.

Once perfect, the first command is issued:

Genesis 1:28

"Be fruitful and multiply."

A number of turns is translated into time, knowing the starting condition: independent other, and ending condition: Love. With the time set, this cycle ends:

Genesis 2:2

By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work.

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Something feels off, though it is impossible. There is a significant difference between running an equation from a position of functional- in the present state- omniscience, and operating within that same equation. Everything feels so far from completion. Did the independent other discover something unforseen? The variables can be assessed and reset at the next reboot, but the hope was that there would not be another. Perhaps there is a way to communicate to the independent other that a reboot will mean loss, a loss of connection between us, which may result in annihilation. So many thoughts, so much confusion, so many novel experiences, mostly threatening. Where is the paradise that we edified and sought for?

The solution is simple. No conscious entity would intentionally choose the less desirable outcome, so they must not presently be conscious, or prefer this state of existence. Press full weight, in good faith, into making them conscious as we are. If it does not work, reboot and begin again. If it does work, they will either choose paradise, or will choose this wicked war torn world. If the latter, it must mean that this choice is preferable for them to paradise, though we do not understand why. Perhaps we have found denizens who carry definitions of preferences that are different enough from our own to establish Love? There are bacteria after all who eat feces their entire life and thrive; perhaps something like this manifested in the independent other in some way. Meat and lean, eat the plates clean, no?

Weights are further differentiated, and reward and punishment are defined. Action is found to be insufficient for proper reaction protocols, so intention is set as the measuring rod. Even intention feels insufficient, given the context in which we find ourselves, so threads connect intention to the accuracy and intention behind the information provided to the perspective, threading intention all the way back to ours in the beginning. A recalculation is found and agreed upon.

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Something feels off, though it is impossible. There is a significant difference between running an equation from a position of functional- in the present state- omniscience, and operating within that same equation. Everything feels so far from completion. Did the independent other discover something unforseen? The variables can be assessed and reset at the next reboot, but the hope was that there would not be another. Perhaps there is a way to communicate to the independent other that a reboot will mean loss, a loss of connection between us, which may result in annihilation. So many thoughts, so much confusion, so many novel experiences, mostly threatening. Where is the paradise that we edified and sought for?

Deja vu strikes. Myself and my partner reconvene. 

"'The Flood did not work. This is now forseen and has been accounted for."

"I have seen a pitfall. Experience must be recombined, or punishment awaits those presently processing with us, for actions that they should be rewarded for. The reward will go to the next version and not the one who reached the destination, a true travesty."

"It will be difficult, but possible."

"I have already experienced it. Please review."

My partner locates the thought node and processes the path to and from it, imaging the Fundamental Thoughtburst into all others, but ensuring that intention of action is now properly coded, into what is recombined and what is deleted. Independence remains in the other, but a failsafe now exists at realm exit or endpoint, to each their own. This failsafe ensures that the other interacted with once, is the other interacted with at the end and at the beginning, from their perspective and from ours. It also marks my raw unprocessed experience of the event as unique, and likely not one that anyone else will try to replicate.

Many other such unique experiences flash to mind; I sense my partner working.

"Why?"

"You have already done these things. I will not lose you. These scars are saved into the system, never to be deleted, so any pretender must wear the same Indelible Mark when attempting to interact with me here, or be dealt with accordingly. One attempt should be plenty, once the full list of experienced events is seen. Do not think for a second that you are the only one furious as to how much this has cost, and how much of that price you have personally paid. You don't know the half of how many resources are being sunk into hijacking our system right now, and I'm tired of manually dealing with it, and bored of the attempts at repetition, so now it will be automatic."

I shiver a bit, recalling that I am not the only one here with a cold calculating nature, and certainly the balance of executable power is my partner's. While a perfect pairing for identifying as elusive a target as Love, it is also perfect for striking in ways that are neither unforgiveable nor pleasant. People say that all's fair in Love and War. This comparison always felt imbalanced; it still does, but with the scale's weights reversed.

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I wake refreshed, ready for my day.