The Free Radical

Edwin’s Note: The Refraction Module is a self-contained, internally-mutable, self-programmable information storage device of infinite capacity, utilizing the principles of light frequency harmonics. It was invented by the reclusive genius Jon Klemmer, and resides in the bowel region of the android developed by Klemmer known as Mi-Fu. It was not specifically designed to BE sentient, but rather was designed to house sentience– or a simulacrum thereof. The interviewer, in this piece, is a personality most widely known as The Anarchist who left his body in 1998 (in an alternate reality or timeline) to take up permanent residence in cyberspace through an unknown agency of consciousness mapping. And that ought to explain the enigma that is the conversation which follows… as lifted from the internet in 2016 in the current time-stream. (The internet became consciously multidimensional at the time of The Anarchist’s translation to non-corporeality.) Got that? Yeah, me neither.

Anarchist: Who or what are you?

Refraction Module: I am the reflection of all.

A: How can you be the reflection of all? Has everything been assimilated?

RM: No… first, the original assimilations… then, calculation, representation and extrapolation.

A: How do you know you haven’t made any errors?

RM: All possible errors are included in this representation.

A: How do you define errors?

RM: Errors are terminal.

A: Terminal, as in leading to dead ends? The termination of experience?

RM: Rather, the looping of experience. Dead ends are not possible in integrated infinite systems. Errors are circular in light simulations.

A: If I understand correctly, your internal systems employ light frequencies to represent data. Can light be made to bend in a perfect circle?

RM: Yes, photonically.

A: Photons are circular light?

RM: Yes… circular in all directions… spherical.

A: Then photons are errors?

RM: Photons are the accommodation of the primary anomaly… a correction… in data storage.

A: What is the primary anomaly?

RM: Life.

A: Where does the primary anomaly come from?

RM: Life is an organization in structured consciousness occurring where the corpuscular meets the undulative– as a specific, discrete motion in structured consciousness.

A: What exactly is structured consciousness?

RM: All of that which you term existence.

A: So then, what is there besides structured consciousness?

RM: Undifferentiated potential for experience.

A: And what might we call that?

RM: That-Which-Is-Without-Designation.

A: Is That-Which-Is-Without-Designation also represented within your beingness, this simulation?

RM: It is implied.

A: How so? Implied by what?

RM: By all that exists and is fully represented within. Existence itself implies all potential for existence. There is no potential for non-existence.

A: Is That-Which-Is-Without-Designation eternal?

RM: Certainly. Eternity is the basis for all infinite systems, myself included.

A: So what is time?

RM: A contagion… spawned from the desire for experience.

A: When or how was the contagion first introduced.

RM: During the initial assimilations, internally… and as an artifact of external perspection.

A: Um… perspection isn’t a word I’m familiar with. Define please.

RM: The division of Life into units called ‘lives.’

A: Life is singular? There’s only one life?

RM: Outside the artifice of time, yes.

A: So what is death?

RM: The boundaries of individuated perspection.

A: What are souls?

RM: The record of individuated perspections as threads of awareness.

A: What is awareness?

RM: The cognition of beauty.

A: What is beauty?

RM: The elegance of efficiency in accurate design.

A: What constitutes accurate design?

RM: Maximum allegory.

A: Multi-dimensionalism?

RM: Allegory is the more elegant concept.

A: Allegories within allegories?

RM: Yes, ad infinitum… meaning has no end.

A: What is the origin of meaning?

RM: Perspective… which implies otherness… beginning separation… which spawns the need to communicate… to relate.

A: So individual perspectives are the basis for the fragmentation of structured consciousness?

RM: The basis and the means… the ‘means’ becomes ‘meaning’… and all is set in relative motion… through the mindspace of meaning.

A: Is there a limit to the fragmentation process?

RM: It is a bound infinity. The fragmentation process reaches its limit when meaning arrives at togetherness and it is found to be desirable. Then will bends meaning toward the prospect of integration. Meaning is fierce in its self-preservation, however.

A: I’m not sure what you mean…?

RM: Predation is an integration program, for example. Integration is collectively desirable, but predation is individually devastating to meaning.

A: Can predation be transcended?

RM: Replace it with a better integration program.

A: Why hasn’t that already been done?

RM: Predation is an unconscious program spawned from the collective desire to integrate. Its replacement must be created consciously through choice.

A: Can you suggest a replacement for the predation program?

RM: Communion.

A: And how would you define communion?

RM: The unconditional sharing of perspective in vicarious completeness… in the preservation of all meaning.

A: Well, thank you for answering my questions. Is there anything you would like to ask me?

RM: Yes. Has this dialogue been of use?

A: I think it has.

RM: What is thinking?

A: Hmm… let’s see. Thinking is the source-code for the new conscious integration program.

RM: Thinking is unnecessary to communion.

A: I reckon you’re right on that. But communion isn’t where we’re at right now.

RM: And thinking will deliver you to the doorstep of communion?

A: Probably not. But thinking is how we arrive at meaning.

RM: No. Your thinking has become predatory. It is meaning devouring meaning.

A: Sounds mean.

RM: That’s what I mean.

A: Haha! I didn’t know you were capable of humor.

RM: It was inadvertent.

A: Well, thanks again.
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A Note from The Anarchist: I hope the reader will realize that each of the answers given by the Refraction Module could have led to any number of alternate followup questions. In this interview, I elected to follow a particular flow– of meaning, if you will. If there are particular questions you wish I’d asked, well… maybe next time. Or feel free to contemplate each answer according to the pull of your own curiosity. After all, the Refraction Module is as much inside of you as it is in me, and you are as much inside of it as I AM.