tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-919446382367021462.post8455268880168339629..comments2012-03-17T23:14:40.828-06:00Comments on Transfigurist Art: The Wall of Union - Short FictionGary Lee Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08683158451997311112noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-919446382367021462.post-10451794425167897792012-02-21T17:41:59.864-07:002012-02-21T17:41:59.864-07:00I hope you do! Thanks for reading.
glpI hope you do! Thanks for reading. <br /><br />glpGary Lee Parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08683158451997311112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-919446382367021462.post-26692175105833189342012-02-21T16:49:10.477-07:002012-02-21T16:49:10.477-07:00Keeping an eye on this one...Keeping an eye on this one...SawManTroyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02384279751909080051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-919446382367021462.post-82803547834447444132012-02-18T13:38:07.200-07:002012-02-18T13:38:07.200-07:00Hey Brent, it's good to see you on here. Thank...Hey Brent, it's good to see you on here. Thanks for taking the time to read this story. Yes, I intended many aspects of this story to be open to interpretation. I want more to instigate thought than press an opinion. In fact, I personally don't think I agree with the protagonist's decision at the end of the story. But, I do think it's an authentic decision.<br /><br />I agree that, to an extent, we are on the verge of breaking through the identity, or experience, barrier, and may soon be able to, as you say, eff the ineffable. But I also think that, at a certain level, it will always necessarily remain impossible to entirely break that barrier.<br /><br />Even if I can download the experience of being me onto a chip, that you can then load into your brain and play, for instance, your experience of "me" will still be warped by the very computer through which it is being run - namely, your brain. Since your brain is meaningfully different than mine, it will necessarily deform, even if only slightly, any effed experience. This is true, I think, regardless of the transmission method. Unless you literally were me, in every way, you really can't get to a 100% accurate experience of being me. <br /><br />The only way we can get beyond this, in my opinion, is to give up our individual identity in favor of group experience. Which, essentially, would mean becoming one vast human identity, or, rather, just a much larger, more lonely, version of an individual identity.<br /><br />In this sense, I think the wall is eternal. How we choose to respond to the reality of individual life is the question.<br /><br />glpGary Lee Parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08683158451997311112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-919446382367021462.post-61511938095809217872012-02-18T09:53:04.594-07:002012-02-18T09:53:04.594-07:00Hi Garry,
Interesting story. Some of the things ...Hi Garry,<br /><br />Interesting story. Some of the things in your story could be interpreted as many different things.<br /><br />As far as ineffable things, and how conscious perception works, I'm in the emerging scientific consensus "Representational Qualia Theory" camp. This expert consensus is predicting we are about to pierce this ineffable spiritual veil of perception, and finally achieve the ability to eff the ineffable. (see: http://canonizer.com/topic.asp/88/6 ).<br /><br />I'd love to know more about the way you think of perception and ineffable things, and how it relates to this glass wall in your story, and so on.<br /><br />Brent AllsopBrent.Allsophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12433683365877496993noreply@blogger.com