12 Feb 2003 @ 01:33, by sevenlamb
On a living world, simulations are important. Especially when a race of creatures
like humans becomes more fascinated with simulations than with survival. Yet
there are certain elemental simulations that can pay off, when we can locate
the right species of questions to inagurate our quests.
Here's a game we play all the time, without noticing it — or, some of
us notice it in ways different than others.
It's the kind of a game that can save worlds, played hearfully.
It wold be fun to teach each other together again. With games of questions.
We used to be circles of circles...instead of a lot of agitated dots. At least,
I remember circles of circles...of people...like raindrops falling together
into water...under a fascinating star...or a scalar blanket of them.

Scene I:
In a moment, you will be transported to a world with two children, a boy and
a girl.
Essentially you can think of them as the only two human children on the world
you’ll be taken to. They will become a planet of human children, living
on a world much like preIndustrial Earth. In other words, paradise of complex
living ecosystems in cognitive and highly charactered co-emergence.
You will have a few moments to offer each of them some advice, or a teaching.
Your goal is to compose a brief message for the girl, one for the boy, and one
for both of them.
You will have the option to inscribe what you've said in stone, in a way they
can later decode, or not.
You will be the only ‘adult’ they will ever encounter. What you
offer them will radically alter their universe, for they will wonder where you
came from, and where you went. They will likely metaphy you as a god, and as
yet, they have no such 'idea' at all.
For the time you are with them only, they will understand common concepts in
English (or your native language) but not esoteric concepts such as religion,
specific metaphors, etc — thus your gift of knowledge must be extremely
general to be successfully communicated.
What will you offer them?
What is the most essential gift we can offer such children in our experiment?
Scene II:
How is each moment or instant of our own inner life different from this question?
If it isn’t, or is even similar, what stories are we telling to the two
children inside ourselves when we reach inward in any way at all?
Scene III:
How is each moment of our own activity as adults not alike with this question,
as it relates to our own living children? Since we cannot ‘know’
we will ever return to their side, how are we answering this question with our
moment to moment and day to day activities, as well as our tacit or implicit
consent with the industrial and political momentums we exist within, emerge
from, and influence?
Organelle : Cognitive Activism
: Now

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