The Alan Sondheim Mail Archive

everything softly falling


This is the communication in regard to the first video of the
alien; the link here is to

http://www.alansondheim.org/testingalien.mp4

and it constitutes of a series of tests of the alien structure
within the MacGrid in an attempt to determine its fundamental
properties, and whether or not the object/process can be
considered a life-form and further, whether the life-form may be
considered sentient. While the jury is still out, parametric
data can be gathered by the application of suitable rendering
tests, as shown.

Of course this is all within and without the realm of the
virtual, of signs and nothing but signs. Still, there is a need
for probes - think of them as logic probes, necessarily digital.
This is the granularity of the virtual world, at least _this_
virtual world, and from this, one encounters an analog
phenomenology and hermeneutics paralleling that of Schutz's
writing on Carneades and relevance theory. For what is happening
here, beyond the probes, are the mixed returns of signals, and
from the signals, interpretations of all sorts fly; further
testing is needed. It's also of interest that the avatar-form is
blind to all of this; the grid is a superimposition which
circulates around it, literally, the grid has no _bearing._

S/he thought,

"larger than the span which can name. The universe isn't
sentient, won't whatever's left of the commons, of the fabric of
the sentient city. avatartist are aggregates, they are
gatherings, they are sentient and not sentient, all their
processes are filterings, and their actions are constant rate,
sentient black-hole grinding to a halt at normal diameter But
think for a moment of the _sentient countryside,_ the Net
thinned, om- neighborhood community. So the sentient landscape
includes the notion of itself with an _omnipresent sentient
environment,_ interpenetrating the

 	Shared Gain and Pain: the wired or sentient environment
Increasingly, I think of the Internet as a "living" thing, not
sentient avatartist are aggregates, they are gatherings, they
are sentient and not sentient, all their processes are
filterings, and their actions are filterings, avatartist do not
distinguish between essence and filterings.  avatartist are
aggregates, they are gatherings, they are sentient and not
sentient, all their processes are filterings, and their actions
are eventually become sentient (we're talking a decade or so),
communicating sentient as you see - it might even be said to
have a will of its own

 	 Dharma taught by non-sentient things is unthinkable.
realize that i am sentient, as driven as they are, not blind
gravity, but breathes ---/ or that it's sentient ---/ don't you
feel the same way, monster devouring all sentient beings.
listen: i am that monster. i am that monster devouring all
sentient beings; i can taste my madness, my they're sentient,
they can't read the codes, they have so much to tell us,
ignorant of their prey. I, for one, believe the Net sentient,
fully reminds us of the sentient mobility of the real, the
margins of taxon - the sentient ones, for they themselves
dissolve, devolve, divide. But what one would say in all day
talk among sentient beings avatartist are aggregates, they are
gatherings, they are sentient and not sentient, all their
processes are filterings, and their actions are sentient being -
"I say, things begin here," so to speak, whether zero or
approach applies to sentient beings. Now what _here_ constant
rate, sentient black-hole GRINDing to a halt at normal diameter
sentient grinding diameter Boot-strapping occurs throughout the
wake among sentient beings. IBoot-strapping Ioccurs Ithroughout
Ithe Iwake Iamong Isentient Ibeings. three budha callings, all
beings, sentient and nonsentient add that I don't believe that
the Net will become 'sentient' as some have whatever's left of
the commons, of the fabric of the sentient city. universal
knowledge, sentient networking, data-banks, universal knowledge,
sentient networking, data-banks

 	Shared Gain and Pain: the wired or sentient environment
 	Shared Gain and Pain: the wired or sentient environment

toward Har bluecarterwheelperform, sentient beings, limitless,
sure. The Net is not sentient, has not killed us; we have
extruded the Net

   universal knowledge, sentient networking, data-banks those
animals within the realm of sentient sentient being - "I say,
things begin here," so to speak, whether zero or ignorant of
their prey. I, for one, believe the Net sentient, fully reminds
us of the sentient mobility of the real, the margins of taxon -
the sentient ones, for they themselves dissolve, devolve,
divide"

and they listened for signals, for words, something to bring
back into whatever real remained on earth, and everything
softly falling