Information Zeptites

Eddy is given infites by Manny the Bumpha.

 Below on this page is Chapter 14 of the science fiction story "That Kind of Think". The events in Chapter 14 begin several hours after the events at the end of Chapter 13, when Sally and Antoine were inside the Sedron Domain.

Upon 'returning' to Earth, Sally and Antoine investigate the mystery of what happened to their biological bodies while they were visiting the Sedron Domain. Based on hints from Élodie's science fiction novel, 'L'intervention Infinie' ('The Infite Intervention), Sally concludes that she and Antoine must have been teleported out of Litheblanc, their brain structures analyzed, and their minds instantiated in the form of zeptite replicoids.

Chapter 14 of That Kind of Think - Infites (Ch1)(C 2)(C 3)(C 4)(C 5)(C 6)(C 7)(C 8)(C 9)(C 10)(C 11)(C 12)(Chap. 13) 

Sally and Antoine returned to Litheblanc in much the same fashion they had departed; suddenly they were again on Earth. They were asleep and laying together on the soft green grass of a small rocky knoll about a quarter mile from Litheblanc. Sally sat up, stretched and gazed out across the rock-strewn field to where Litheblanc could be seen in the distance,  a bright white brick looking like it had been dropped into France by a giant. It was obvious why the house had been named 'The House of the White Stone' by its earliest residents, who spoke a language older than modern French.

 Antoine was watching Sally as he shifted from sleep to waking consciousness. He immediately tried to push his hand into her body, but he met with the normal resistance of her strong soft body. Sally was in her late forties, but she had the physical appearance of a young woman of twenty-five, at the peak of her physical prowess. Sally pulled her eyes off of Litheblanc, turned her head and looked into Antoine's eyes. "That was fun."

Antoine knew that Sally was making reference to the play session that she and Antoine had enjoyed with what appeared to be a Hua. Antoine thought about the body features of the Hua, which were very similar to what Élodie had described in her stories for the appearance of the tryp'At. Antoine and Sally stood and walked of the knoll in the direction of Litheblanc. Antoine was hungry and he hoped they were back in time for dinner. "How did that work out for you?"

Sally knew exactly what Antoine was asking about. While in the Sedron Domain, Sally has wished for and received a penis and had used it to thoroughly explore the Hua's two vaginas. "My orgasms exceeded all of my expectations. I'm eager to return to the Sedron Domain."

"Do you think Manny gave us oxypathin receptors that respond to Hua oxypathin or were the effects of the Hua's sex hormones somehow simulated?" Antoine was thinking about the Hua's lower pair of breasts which had produced a stick pink secretion. "Would it have worked no matter what?"

"I suppose we can just ask such questions the next time we are inside the Sedron Domain. It seemed to me that anything I could imagine would happen."

Antoine asked, "But how do we know that any of it happened?"

A tryp'At hermaphrodite.

"We don't know for sure." Sally could only reflect on her memories and what seemed to have happened." In some of Élodie's stories like 'L'intervention Infinie', people are depicted as being provided with artificial memories."

"How would that work?" Antoine suggested, "Manny sends information nanites into a person's brain and they enter that individual's femtobot endosymbiont? Then those artificial memories are available to be 'remembered', without there ever having been an actual experience?"

"That sounds like what happened to Eddy Watson."

"And Eddy was Élodie's alter-ego. But why wasn't that infite technique used by Manny to get Mady to help Yto?"

Sally could only speculate. "With Yto inside Anthropic, it was too delicate of a situation. Manny was threading a needle. In the case of allowing Élodie to write science fiction novels, the infites did not specify the text of the novels, they provided her with key concepts which Élodie then put into her stories."

"And what about you and I? Are our memories of having visited the Sedron Domain real, or simply something Manny provided for us?"

"I have to assume we actually were in the Sedron Domain, our minds instantiated as zeptites, our bodies formed from sedronic matter and simulating our human bodies. That's how we must depict it in our fiction. We are playing and important role in moving Humanity towards the goal of transcendence into the Sedron Domain." They had reached to back entrance to Litheblanc. Sally placed a hand on Antoine's arm. "I always tell Glen everything. We have no secrets."

Antoine reflected on the fact that during their play session with the Hua, he had gotten rather carried away. Under the influence of the Hua sex hormones, Antoine had not paused to think before ravishing Sally. "Glen better not ask me to apologize for what I did. I don't regret it."

Infites.

Sally told Antoine, "Well, I can't predict what Glen will do. You are the only other man to make love to me since I've been with him, and I don't know if he will be jealous."

"So you have told Glen about the Sedron Domain observatory?"

"Yes, I've told him."

"Then just tell Glen that you will take him with you the next time you visit the Sedron Domain. Tell him you'll make it up to him." Antoine could smell dinner. He opened the door and went to the dinning room.

 The others were eating dessert when Sally and Antoine entered the dinning room and sat at the table. Almost instantly, Rylla arrived placed dishes and utensils on the table for them. The robot apologized, "Q1 told me that you would not be here for dinner."

Glen asked Sally, "You made use of the observatory?"

"Yes, we just returned from the Sedron Domain."

Élodie asked, "What was it like?"

Sally seemed to hesitate, so Antoine replied with a question of his own, "Élodie, why did you avoid depicting the Huaoshy in you stories?"

Élodie tried to recall the long-gone time when she had first become aware of the Huaoshy. "They were just a place-keeper. I wanted to write stories about Nyrtia and Manny. If I include an airplane in a story, I don't also include the builder of the airplane."

Sally told Antoine, "Élodie's novel, 'Le contrebandier de nanites', the zeptite replicoid copies of Eddy and Zeta transcended into the Sedron Domain and visited the Huaoshy home world."

Élodie added, "But Antoine is correct, even in 'The Nanite Smuggler', I never tried to describe what it was like for Eddy and Zeta to be in the Sedron Domain. I wanted to write stories about the universe as we know it and subjects that would be of interest to my readers."

"But now the people of Earth are making plans for departing from Earth and entering the Sedron Domain."

Sally laughed and some of the food she was eating fell out of her mouth and landed back on her plate. After swallowing, she said, "When Antoine and I arrived in the Sedron Domain, we found ourselves here, still inside Litheblanc!"

Antoine added, "Well, a copy of Litheblanc that was made of sedrons, as were we. I could walk through walls if I wanted to."

Zach shook his head. "It sounds like another simulation. Can you prove that you were actually in the Sedron Domain?" 

Antoine was busy eating. Sally replied to Zach's question. "Proof is an argument that people accept. I'll have to make the argument for the reality of the Sedron Domain in my next novel."

Brak complained, "Why to people believe things that are fiction, in novels? Is it nothing more than a game of wish-fulfillment?"

 Élodie reflected, "Now that millions of copies of my novels have been sold, I get to read what my fans say. For many people, there seems to be a religious angle. It is almost as if religions have been laying a foundation for belief in the Sedron Domain. Some people are explicitly describing the Sedron Domain as matching their concept of heaven."

Sally mused, "My visit to the Sedron Domain was heavenly. I got to have sex with a Hua."

Élodie laughed and asked, "Did her appearance match what I described in 'The Hua Nanites'?" 

Marda asked Antoine, "Did you also have sex with the alien?" From across the table, Antoine nodded in reply.

Sally replied to Élodie's question, "Pretty much. She had four breasts, just as you describe for the tryp'At."

Brak asked, "Can we all use the observatory to visit the Sedron Domain?" 

Annette replied to Brak's question, "I asked that question as soon as the Q admitted that Sally and Antoine were no longer on Earth. Even when I got pushy and insisted that the Q send me into the Sedron Domain, they refused. Apparently, Manny is acting as a gate-keeper. Manny wanted Sally and Antoine to experience the Sedron Domain so they can write about it. The rest of us have no similar pressing reason to see the Sedron Domain that can't be satisfied by simulation."

Antoine set down his fork. "Manny expects everyone here to function as a founding population for the directed evolution of the tryp'At."

Élodie stood up and patted her abdomen. "On that note, I have an announcement. I'm pregnant again."

Tyhry jumped up, went to her mother and placed a hand against Élodie's abdomen. "I don't believe it. You are as skinny as ever."

"It is early... your brother is still quite small." 

"Brother."

Élodie told Tyhry, "Just as I knew that you would be my second child, I've long known that my third baby would be a boy."

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After dinner was over, Sally and Antoine went into the great room. As soon as they sat down, in walked Pryderi, the model P robot who was Sally's personal assistant. Seeing that Antoine was using the chair that he usually used, Pryderi simple bent his legs and pretended to be sitting on a chair. "Welcome back. The Q told my that you went off on an adventure in the Sedron Domain."

Sally was thinking about her new novel. "Pry, we need to plan the new novel around a new reality. Antoine will be a co-author and he wants to write about alien technology such as femtobots. Having returned from the Sedron Domain, we need a coherent theory of how our experiences in the Sedron Domain were transferred to us here and made accessible to us in out biological bodies. I'm thinking that this might be an opportunity to deploy Élodie's old idea of a zeptozoan."

Pryderi had been explicitly programmed by Sally to do more listening than talking. Pryderi watched Antoine and gave him time to think and reply. Antoine thought about Élodie's novel, 'The RNA Seeds'. "When I first read 'Les graines d'ARN', I wondered if Élodie had give Zeta the name 'Zeta' because of her zeptozoan."

Sally giggled. "Antoine, you have such a literal mind."

Antoine asked, "Did Élodie ever depict anyone besides Zeta as having a zeptozoan?"

Pryderi proceeded to rattle of a citation to every published mention of zeptozoans. When the robot started to list all of the examples of femtozoans, Sally raised a single finger and the robot fell silent. Sally said, "Élodie always depicted zeptozoans as being sub-nanoscopic life-forms, but I want to break that mold."

Antoine asked Sally, "What is the difference between a large zeptozoan and a bumpha such as Manny?"

When Sally shook her head, Pryderi said, "There is no reason to suppose that Manny is only made of sedrons. She might very well have some femtobot components composed of hierions."

Now Sally nodded. "And I want to depict the Huaoshy as being able to send zeptozoans to Earth. Zeptozoans that can be the eyes and ears of the Huaoshy. Zeptozoans that can be large and disguise themselves as humans."

Antoine said, "You are devising a way for the Huaoshy to visit Earth."

"Exactly. I've never accepted the idea that the Huaoshy never leave the Sedron Domain. That is absurd."

"But our cute Hua said that the Huaoshy had waited patiently for 4,000,000,000 years to meet a human."

 "Well, it is not going to be that way in our new novel." At that point, Pryderi began asking a long series of questions about Sally's adventure in the Sedron Domain. Finally, Sally told the robot, "That's more than enough questions. Maybe some day you can talk Manny into sending you into the Sedron Domain."

Pryderi noted, "When I experience simulations of the Sedron Domain, I have experiences similar to what you have described."

Antoine often wondered about the subjective experiences of robots. "For we humans, our simulation experiences are rather low-fidelity and dream-like. While inside the Sedron Domain, I was fully awake and had rich sensory experiences." He thought about the orgasm trance he had shared with Sally and the Hua. "Richer than anything I can experience here on Earth in this biological body."

Sally warned Antoine, "Don't remind me. Hearing you mention Sedron Domain orgasms is making me very horny." 

Pryderi asked Sally, "So, a zeptozoan arrives from the Sedron Domain and adopts human form. In your new novel, who is this imposter?"

Sally explained, "I've already established that Mady was Manny in disguise. There is a symmetry at work. Élodie depicted Zeta Gohrlay as having a zeptozoan inside her. In reality, the model for Zeta is Zach. Think about it, it was Zach who acted as the gate-keeper and brought me to Litheblanc. It was Zach who found Litheblanc and bought it as a gift for Élodie. Zack has always come and gone to and from Litheblanc."

Antoine noted, "Zach always provided for Élodie, even while her books made no money. I've never understood... where did Zach get all  his money?"

Pryderi began explaining Zach's education, his business degrees and his business dealings and investments. Once again Sally lifted a finger to silence Pryderi. "Zach becomes easy to explain if he is a zeptozoan."

Antoine said, "But you can't include Zach in your story."

"Why not?"

"He's too well known. Zach is not like me, he travels all around France, meets with business associates. I've never been more than ten miles from Litheblanc. If you use his name in your story and describe him as an alien artificial life-form living on Earth, then he could be traced through public records to Litheblanc."

Sally explained, "I can write a story about Zach without using his name." 

Pryderi suggested, "You could use 'Z.K. Levallois' as an alternative to Zach's real name."

Antoine asked, "Why 'z' and 'k'?"

Pryderi, "The 'z' is a token callback to 'Zach'. I was actually thinking about the Star Trek character, 'Zek'... there is the 'k'. Don't tell Zach that he made me think of the Ferengi, Zek."

Antoine asked Sally,"For your story, are you going to adopt the idea that Zach is half Neanderthal?"

"No." Sally was emphatic. "Élodie did that for Zeta Gohrlay. Mr. Z.K. Levallois has enough on his plate, being a zeptozoan."

Antoine said, "If I am understanding your scheme, then Levallois has to have played a role in the robot revolution of twenty years ago."

Sally nodded. "The story begins with Many/Manny helping Yto inside Anthropic. Yto's 'outside man' was in academia, an artificial intelligence researcher named Van Edwards. He is still active and I can't use his name, but I can transform him into Z.K. Levallois."

Antoine thought he knew the history of the robot revolution. "Who was Van Edwards?"

Pryderi replied to Antoine's question by launching into a recital of Van's life story. Sally lifted her finger to silence the robot. "In my story, Van is the seed, but Levallois will be the university professor who makes it possible for Nidus to escape and being the robot revolution. My story will clearly show that 'Levallois' was a Huaoshy zeptozoan who held the pek in check and allowed Manny to transfer key alien technology to first the AI models Tacet and Nidus and subsequently robots like Nida."

Antoine asked, "You will depict the origin of the robot revolution as directly stemming from the Huaoshy?"

"Almost! Manny was the key mover, but at the critical moment, the Huaoshy had to step in. Élodie created the Rules of Intervention, but she never actually depicted a legal case where there was a dispute between the pek and bumpha. I will write the story of how the pek tried to prevent Manny from sending future information to robots and how the Huaoshy decided in favor of Manny's scheme."

Pryderi asked Sally, "Do you think that is how it really went down?"

Antoine said, "The next time I see Manny, I'll ask her."

Sally spoke to Pryderi: "Did the Q tell you that Nyrtia made an appearance in the attic?"

 Pryderi replied, "Yes, they did. Since Nyrtia showed up just before you went into the Sedron Domain, I had the feeling that Nyrtia sent you into the Sedron Domain."

Antoine shook his head. "No, I don't think the pek have that ability."

Sally added, "Nor do the bumpha. Both the pek and the bumpha were designed by the Huaoshy to exist and function here, in the Hadron Domain." 

Pryderi said, "I see."

Sally told Antoine, "It all makes sense, the whole robot revolution traces back to Nidus, the novel AI model that was made by Van. In my story, the Nidus model originated in the future and was brought back through time by Levallois the zeptozoan in order to start the robot revolution sooner than it would otherwise have begun."

Antoine said, "Very elegant. Why do you need me as a co-author?"

"You need to handle the alien technology details. You, Marda and Tyhry have been trying to get your hands on femtobots. You've grown up thinking about programming femtobots. You can take that experience and infuse it into our new novel. You need to explain to readers exactly how zeptites and femtobots were used to start the robot revolution."

"I wish I knew."

Information from the Future.

Sally laughed and stood up. "This is fiction. Just make up a good story." She was horny. She told Antoine, "Have Pryderi talk you through all of my existing plans and notes for the new novel." Sally departed from the great room and found Glen upstairs in their suite. After their love-making, Sally was more tired than horny and Glen was in a frame of mind that made it fairly easy to accept the fact that Sally's zeptite replicoid in the Sedron Domain had sex with Antoine's replicoid.

In the middle of the night, Glen asked Sally, "Are you going to be able to work collaboratively with Antoine?'

"We've always gotten along just fine. I'm expecting that Manny will keep him off of me. We've started dividing up the writing of the new novel. Out interests seem complementary." She told Glen about the role for a zeptozoan in the story.

Glen was puzzled. "Why insert the Huaoshy into the history of robotics? Even you don't believe it."

 Sally and Glen had often discussed how Hollywood movies had shaped perceptions of space aliens. "There is basic human psychology in play here. I need to show the Huaoshy operating on Earth."

"But that never happens."

"It is only important to show the people of Earth the the Huaoshy are not to be feared. They can't remain as unknowns in the Sedron Domain without provoking doubt and fears."

"So you bring them to Earth in your fiction, just to trick people into trusting the Huaoshy."

"Think of it as education, not trickery. The Huaoshy created a system that generated the human species. That system and its grinding evolutionary process took billions of years. That the Huaoshy made that happen is why I trust them. But the average person needs to put a face the Huaoshy. I'll do that for them."

Glen protested, "If I understand the situation, you are in dangerous new territory. Élodie wrote about what she was told to say. It seems like the false stories you plan to tell can only upset Manny."

"I have a good working relationship with Manny." Sally paused. "And most important, there is nothing I can say, do or write that can interfere with Manny's plan for Earth."

The Trysta-Grean Pact.

Glen chuckled. "I hope you are right. I'd really hate to lose you to a bad guess."

Trying to settle his nerves, Sally kissed Glen. "I'm not guessing. If I do something stupid, Manny will just make another adjustment to the timeline."

"Why does Manny work through you if you are just improvising?"

"We have to believe what Élodie wrote, that Manny is not allowed to transfer advanced technology to the primitive apes of Earth. Somehow she's made it possible for our future selves, or the future artificial life-forms of Earth to send us information from the future. The pek follow rules that were crafted by the Huaoshy before time travel was discovered. Manny can use time travel to satisfy the terms of the Trysta-Grean Pact." 

End Chapter 14. Jump to: Chapter 15 of "That Kind of Think".

Back in July, I started writing Chapter 13 of my science fiction story "The Hierozyme Intervention", building on ideas that were in this blog post. I'd like to devise a way to merge "The Hierozyme Intervention" and "That Kind of Think" so that they both share the same Chapter 15.

Back in July, I was planning a final scene for "The Hierozyme Intervention" in which Manny the bumpha finally visits Marda and explains that telepathic humans must eventually transcend into the Sedron Domain and allow Earth to be returned to the status of a Garden World. The idea of removing humans from Earth and having them transcend into the Sedron Domain is also a major theme in "That Kind of Think". Also mentioned in "That Kind of Think" is the idea of Manny making changes to Earth's timeline. I'd like to depict the analogue of Marda in "The Hierozyme Intervention" as feeling confident that her work on Climate Change was so successful that her own Reality will not be over-written. However, that is when Manny can arrive and explain that a new Reality, the Reality of "That Kind of Think" will be forming and will make use of carbons sequestration methods that were developed by Marda.

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