{"id":131,"date":"2006-01-11T09:04:33","date_gmt":"2006-01-11T17:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/wordpress\/?p=131"},"modified":"2006-01-11T09:04:33","modified_gmt":"2006-01-11T17:04:33","slug":"a-visit-to-the-mirrorbrane-in-santa-cruz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/11\/a-visit-to-the-mirrorbrane-in-santa-cruz\/","title":{"rendered":"A Visit to the Mirrorbrane (in Santa Cruz)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Walking down the street, I was thinking, “What really do hypothetical thousand-times-as-capacious brain-like systems have that I don't have, walking down this street looking at the trees?” They can look at the trees from more angles at once, they can analyze the motions in more depth.<\/p>\n

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By the same token, what do I have in my perception of a scene that’s all that much richer than the perception of a crow perched in the tree? Assume for the sake of argument the crow sees in color and has good visual acuity — actually I think birds do see very well, so as to be able to swoop down on bugs and other small prey. Pushing it further, might not a colony of ants on a tree also have a very rich model of the world? (Note that I speak of the colony and not of an individual ant, as the ant-mind is indeed a distributed intelligence.)<\/p>\n

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And then I saw the entrance to the Mirrorbrane.<\/p>\n

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I found some cheap Mirrorcalifornia real estate, with a starter car included.<\/p>\n

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I moved right in.<\/p>\n

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Nice thing is, in Mirrorbrane, something’s always on the braneware TV.<\/p>\n

The sand is filled with gnomes, the flames with salamanders, the wood with dryads, the ocean with undines, the air with sylpyhs, the dogs with dog. Each uses the bulk-space’s Higgs field for memory storage.<\/p>\n

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Although my Mirrorbrane superpartner appears human to our eyes, he is made of superpartner particles: squarks, selectrons, photinos. Earth, air, fire, water are replaced by wood, cuttlefish, mathematics, and dog.<\/p>\n

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My Mirrorbrane house burns down with Mirror-me inside it, the sylphs scatter my superpartner’s ashes.<\/p>\n

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Eadem mutata resurgo;<\/i>
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The same, yet altered, I rearise.
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Flying into the sun.<\/p>\n

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Left for the gnomes is the mesh of plumbing that was my Mirrobrane meat body for lo unto sixty years in sixty minutes. And now I am a little child.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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