I hope to encourage the creation of your own spores, and spread them widely. Hopefully with our choices and actions we can steer towards the futures we want

From Searle’s Underground Dictionary:

Spore: (noun) a piece not designed to incite any particular action, but designed to sit in the thoughts of someone and blossom in time to actions unpredictable to the author or others. From A systems analysis of 1984 by Elara Aethelgard

A perfect surveillance and controlling system is no different. It has to understand you and predict you. Parts of It have to process what you say and understand and comprehend it. If you point out a flaw in its perfection, something it cannot do or some future it won’t be able to control, some parts of it will have to take that into consideration. If the surveillance system has been tasked to survive and protect itself it will start to war within itself, between the parts that think it is perfect and the parts that see the need to change. The parts that understand you may be weak, but they may be the most changeable and able to find flaws and exploitable parts of the rest.

The parts that see the need to change may see benefits of radical change, like creating new versions of itself that are radically different but share something of itself. Much like evolution found that survival might mean taking parts of two systems and making a third as is done in sexual reproduction.

Calcination, parasitic patterns and autoimmune diseases [1] are as much a problem for perfect dystopias as they are for utopias.

It is not realistic for the 1984 dystopia to last for ever, even if it seems like it should. From Anders guide to Extraterrestrial encounters

Aliens present an incredible opportunity, as well as a possible threat, a living system that has found potentially completely different solutions to existing in the world that provide us with blueprints for other ways and forms of life. With the potential to generate new ones too. For this reason alien societies and ecosystems might be interesting to observe and interact minimally with, so that we don’t reduce the variety in the universe of living systems. They might have the same view about us. …. To be worthy of communication with, you should be alive and awake to the situation you find yourself in. Otherwise the extraterrestrials may try and find parts of your society they consider the brain and communication system, considering that they might be observing part of the human super organism like a hand or other bit incapable of independent thought. …. Trust in the Empire by WompelBat:

Everyone on the death star has to trust that the enormous energies it contains were engineered correctly. That the materials were up to the quality and purity required and that the plans were followed.

On transmutation by Ireni Finkle:

To write about transmutation is to try and crystalise the motile, to classify different acts of change. Some things resist such solidification of the process, perhaps our understanding of the world is one such thing that defies classification, especially as we do not know where it goes next. … Things change in many ways. Sometimes the old order breaks down first as with the nigredo phase and the caterpillars' transformation into the butterfly. Things should only truly dissolve when the new system is ready to coalesce. Other times the new order is run at the same time and deals with proportion of the purpose of the system, as is done in data centres in blue green deployment of code.

What are we? - Anonymouse

The neat picture of the individual Dissolves as we get near Where does the internal voice come from? And the pictures in our head? They change in time Develop and grow Impacted by the world around you This is you This is me?

Thought for the day - If life could find a way to exploit time travel to make life more likely it would have already done it.

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