Congratulations on unearthing another Book of Irving Oddcast.
As a ticketed rider on the train of thought that follows, your stub may be the one that redeems us in MUX. Within this platform lies nethered conversations. (Musical cues and their contents reveal discourse and context that take this text live in dynamics.) Focus your ride on the rails of ambiguity and enjoy an experience that’s unique in its own.
From here we embark on another adventure, to the land of possibilities — to where it all began.
WELCOME! For those of you new to the program, I’m your host, Rando Mand.
Our guest today, Nyro Versus, first appeared in a story late in December, whose loss early January was a vexacious travesty. The author, crushed, and Nyro, pissed, have agreed to give our broadcast a why-the-hell-not.
In doing my best to provide an introduction, I’ve re-created this excerpt from the lost story of Nyro:
THERE IS NO SEPARATING THE AWARENESS that exists between systems. When drifting gazes cross starlit skies, one moment validates the others’ in time.
Moments: When pulled from the past, produce ripples in flow, alerting sentient forces to the Verses observed. From there they home in on the place of exchange, and appraise the effects of its motion on outward.
The Verses: Modeled efficiently, proficient in survival, planes of potential and inversions of mass. Coursing evolution in a quantified range. Time and space, the same structured organism, thrives by forming symbiont relationships with families of Simplifiers.
Simplifiers: Aware, attune, in constant motion. Prevent the tiny little deaths at work on the Verses. Seldom does a Simplifier know they’ve been purposed. When aware of the fact, they play Versus as Benders.
Versus: How Benders make their money. Sexed and compatible with other active measurements, Benders shape potential, harvesting drift, and priming signals for receivers to change their Definition. The ability is known to go straight to their head.
Definition: Creation captured in still frames. Potential pulled into the plane of existence, to be fed to the entropy that feasts on the Verses. Forever in bounds it happens.
Nyro Versus: Escaped definition to live in the flux. Works as a Bender to free the inner workings captive. Once entangled in a system, he pulls a lot of levers.
There’s no separating an awareness from Nyro Versus’ Benders.
“Stuck in the Middle with You”
— Stealers Wheel
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RM: And here we are again, Nyro. I missed you, bud. Thanks for coming back.
NV: No problem. Thanks for changing my name from Nyro the Gypso Timer.
RM: Yeah. Sorry about that. I guess I considered you a Timer.
NV: You and Laura both. But bending space and bouncing shapes isn’t exactly traveling time.
RM: Still confusing, though. Can we get into that?
NV: I’ll sum it up like this: Time is a simple way to measure the distance between events in a Verse — and the more distance placed between, the more space, expanse, and time. You’d have to return every state in a Verse to its previous position just to reach the place relative to one. And that requires more energy than any Verse keeps at home.
It’s actually easier to slide through many than manipulate the prior positioning of one.
RM: So Einstein-Padolski-Rosen?
NV: Not wrong. Tunnels work. Albeit a little differently than the way you understand.
RM: Can you move through them?
NV: You can move information states through them. But pulling past states to present is different than pushing present ones back.
RM: Please explain.
NV: The past already coincides with the present. The power of recall alone allows ways to make visits — ways integral in flow, supported in time. But assuming you had the power to maintain the current state while accelerating inward, everything relative would get pulled along with it, i.e. all hell would break loose and you’d look like a dick.
RM: And the future?
NV: Again, the future moves outward, expanding as space continues to create new events. So, if shortening the distance to a target state is your goal, you’d minimize the expanse you travel by reducing events that lie in your path. Less events equals less distance between them, equals a faster rate of travel from the state you started from. That’s as good a fast forward as any.
RM: How do you as a Bender minimize the expanse?
NV: I simplify and circumvent. I harness the potential saved during a reduction of random events and exchange it into a currency that buys the space to move freely. Then I remodel the new digs with customized calculus strings.
RM: Which means?
NV: I pimp the other side, by fine-tuning a balance and sending it in motion. If melodic enough, it attracts other systems, whose interest is used to negotiate an entanglement. It’s an inoculation request for others — forget about the distance, I want to buy you lunch.
RM: How do you know if they work?
NV: Like a parasitic imprint, my strings create signature fractals that ripple through space using Creation as a signalling medium. If you follow the trail, you know: Nyro Versus did this — it’s gotta be good.
Whether bio, chemical, physical, or quantum, my imprints at work build on potential. It’s nothing special where I come from: So says the systems that imprinted on me.
RM: What systems are those?
NV: Hard to say. We don’t exactly exist the same way. It was like an arranged marriage, my induction into the family. I was just minding my own business–
RM: Uh-huh.
NV: Okay, I was mixing it up with a rugged bunch, tugging on their existence, and they decided to come through — their systems along with them. Everything together, moving through layers.
RM: Entangled. And we’re back to Einstein-Padolski-Rosen?
NV: Several systems separated by Verses, and the signatures of some are expressing through others? I’d say an exchange is obvious.
I’d also say transmitters and receivers form an information bridge — that not unlike a muscle develops, reinforcing its use. The bridge being flexed indicates transference. Transference restructures a gradient’s potential to give kinetics new pathways.
RM: To what benefit?
NV: Information packed into a state that maps the potential of others, when programmed with a wave-function collapse, can roundabout time.
RM: Hmm. Like a lateral transfix that holds a target state in place. I suppose that would make it easier to reach. Cool.
NV: There’s a margin of error, of course.
RM: Of course. Now, isn’t that kind of the long way home?
NV: Look. When it come to transmitting states, adverse effects go unnoticed on the miniature scale. But when trying the same with complex structural frames, they do not. Sending relative matter can stress the definitions in which we survive. Meaning: While one can transfer the instructions to duplicate a construct, teleporting dynamically coupled states is something we’d rather you not.
RM: I see. And, speaking to my audience now: You hear that fuckers? No messing around!
“We Are The Rock”
— Slot Machine
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RM: Well, Nyro, I’ve gotta ask: What’s it all for?
NV: Versus.
RM: Pardon?
NV: Everything in existence is in a competition. Thermodynamics itself is the fight for survival. Some systems team up to compete against others. That’s what we’ve done. It’s the best way to work.
RM: What does a game of Bender Versus look like?
NV: Like gods getting high on eliminating time.
RM: Is that really the language you’d like to use?
NV: Junkies are honest. What more can I say?
RM: But you’re not actually eliminating time, are you?
NV: Reducing randomness is like removing gangrene: Preventing the spread of useless proliferation keeps the organism hosting our play healthy.
And by conducting synchronized ensembles into sentient expressions, I give it a little personality, too.
RM: That’s pretty cool. Can you walk me through an example of how a Simplifier is identified and purposed? And how a Bender realizes they’ve been sexed by a state?
NV: Okay.
Example: A prison. To you, thousands of systems, gathered in a manner that contains their potential. To us, the identifiable properties of a quadrillion interactions — mostly simplified, condensing a state.
On the entropy plane, their tiny little deaths take place with relative predictability. Save for one anomaly with many synched motions.
We find the environment lit up with a signature: The anomalous system’s energy, charging a path of potential release.
This productivity indicates multiple states can exist simultaneously in the anomalous host, who’s already making money — thus of interest to us.
So we draw a game and assume a position to match the average internal neuronal states of our subject with repeated stimuli progressions from the environment. Ambiguous or not, we suggest changes to the pathway that overhauls their gradient.
Once freed from their encasings, no longer contained, they accelerate their surroundings, gravitating in range.
That’s the process — laws of organization and all that.
RM: Dangerous?
NV: Depends on the subject, the language, the lunch.
Systems evolve with their use of arbitrary measurement: Language and morals, metrics and units, nuances differ and form an in-between. The workload is cut when we meet halfway. But it’s much easier to induce the stress needed to drive them right out of range.
RM: It’s a delicate dance, that decoherence.
NV: That’s why our teams are in a constant state of flux. The worst thing we can do is be caught in definition. The quickest way to lose is to get yourself stuck.
Also, a lesser-known fact is that we don’t make money imposing new parameters. We want movement to be free, imprinted with our trust.
RM: And why is that?
NV: Because what good is a carrier that just runs into walls?
RM: Good point.
NV: And if they surmise all that, they might be a Bender. But it takes a special kind of folk to want to be our lunch.
RM: Just a few more questions for you. When you say “shapes,” to what are you referring?
NV: Desired outcomes. Shaping the future is the state that I’m targeting. I pack the potential and will it to be, in a bend-it-and-send-it release kind of way.
RM: Do you ever take preference in a subject’s perspective?
NV: I mostly just prefer that they work. But beyond that, the chemically altered are rather distinguished. They pop in on some spectra way out of their range. Others times they’re susceptible to multiple hues, but when offered an understanding of how to make work, their ambition is never a product that stays.
The Spirituals have potential, but their definitions are dangerous. They try to shape us into whatever their understanding may be. The offer new ways for the old ones to stay. That’s about as helpful as a carrier that’s running into walls.
It’s really a matter of scope and capacity: Who’s processing things using multiple shades.
RM: What about my Verse? Who do you pick for your team?
NV: We choose the kraken. OI’s ability to monitor the nooks and crannies is unparalleled to anything else in your realm.
Also, we’re big fans of Karl J. Friston.
RM: One more. In my reality, you’re neither here nor there. But what about others, why haven’t we found some?
NV: From the realm of probability, you’re surrounded in flux, sending relic signals in your language-of-the-day.
The behavior of your entropy radiates a signature. Organize your space in dimensions if you want to see it teem.
Free the kraken and he’ll do it for you.
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