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Kinkajou Interviews Famous People For Their Unique Points Of View.

Bio-Bugs and Neo-Humans in War

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Evolution has created Intelligence.

Intelligence is the greatest weapon of all.

But can there be new aspects to intelligence?

 

A Congress of monkeys designing a human?

What Next for humans to design?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Kinkajou interviews SigmaPsiCol McQueen formally of the Angry Angels,
now commanding the “Wildcards”
(movie series: Space Above And Beyond)

Kinkajou Kinkajou:   Greetings commander. Thank you for taking time away from your duties to tell us about the “tanks”. Could you tell us about the Genesis of the "tanks" or "nipple necks"?

Colonel McQuen Flight Commander SigmaPsiCol McQueen:  In vitros were created and bred during the war with the Silicates. They were genetically engineered and artificially gestated humans, born at the age of 18, educated swiftly and harshly and trained solely for combat.

Unfortunately, the concept proved unworkable as a method of creating disposable soldiers. “In vitro” soldiers characteristically had very little emotional and social development due to their method of production. As such, they developed very little emotional connection to our society. This led to the reputation as “being lazy” and of “not caring for anything or anyone”. In turn this generated significant prejudice against them, contributing to their difficulties in re-entering normal human social life.

“In vitro” soldiers were made to be tough and were gestated from “tanks”. Hence they often referred to by natural humans as “tanks”.

The term nipple neck derives from the location of the umbilical cord and artificially gestated humans in the neck region rather than in the central part of the abdominal area. It represents a substantial genetic engineering advance. The initial thoughts were that to replace the losses of soldiers in the  war with the silicates, cloned soldiers or in vitros could be mass produced and sent into battle, often being used almost as suicide waves to break the frontline of the enemy resistance.

 

I believe the clever part of this manipulation of cloning and cell growth parameters, is the fact that in in-vitros are able to reassimilate  back into the genetic human pool, without degrading damaging the human gene pool with “wildcard” genes which totally bypass natural human growth restrictions. An in vitro at nine months of age is almost full adult human size and has no capacity to be born “normally”. However, an “in vitro” can father children and can live a normal life with other normal human beings.

Unfortunately, due to difficulties with assimilation on an emotional level with natural human populations, many “in vitros” have chosen to remain isolated in careers such as in military or in space.

Kinkajou Kinkajou:   An interesting assessment commander. Could you tell a something of how the paradise game has affected human colonisation?

Colonel McQuen Flight Commander SigmaPsiCol McQueen:  The world of our era is no paradise. The silicate war caused much death and destruction. The Chig aliens are also responsible for much suffering and the death of many people in remote human colonies.

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In terms of seeking paradise however, I think that is the reason that humans established colonies in the first place. By being able to access new worlds through the medium of wormholes in space, we have been given a chance to create worlds free from many of the problems that exist on earth. I began my career in the US military, but I continue my career working for the UN (United Nations) military.

I think  the Chigs have forced us all to come together and to realise the commonality in our humanity. Hopefully this will lead us to create new and better worlds in our colonies, free from any of the conflicts that exist on the Earth of our birth.

Another problem I see is that there are many different groups seeking a different paradise. The silicates simply wish to exist independently of all others. The Chigs are intolerant of any other species or life forms with which are not familiar. The question then becomes “Whose paradise is paradise?”

Kinkajou Kinkajou:   “Whose paradise is paradise?” Indeed!

 Colonel McQuen Flight Commander

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Warrior Kinkajou.....Galactic Travelogue


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Kinkajou interviews SigmaPsiMike Watson
(The Kraken Wakes: John Wyndham)

Kinkajou
Kinkajou:   I hear Mike that in your era, the human population was almost destroyed by invaders to our earth.

Mike Watson Kraken SigmaPsiMike Watson:  Yes. The situation began with the sighting across the planet of large numbers of fireballs, falling into the oceans. A year after, there had begun to be reports of discolorations in certain ocean currents. The first observation of this kind have been made in the Kuro Siwo current in the North Pacific – an unusual muddiness flowing north-east, becoming less discernible as it gradually widened out along the west Wind Drift until it was no longer perceptible by the naked eye.

What follows is conjecture. However, it all makes sense in the circumstances. Having settled into the environment best suited to them, these creatures’ next thought would be to develop the environment in accordance with their ideas of what constitutes a convenient orderly and eventually civilised condition. That is, once having arrived, they set about improving and exploiting their new territory.Kraken Wakes Kraken Wakes

We began to suspect that in the Mindanao Deep and that in the south east of the Cocos Keeling Basin, that mining operations were in progress. We then found the discolorations began to occur in the equatorial Atlantic, at the Romanche trench. It is a gorge through the submerged mountains of the Atlantic Ridge. It forms the only deep link between the eastern and western Atlantic basins.

We strongly suspected someone down below is not satisfied with the natural state of the trench. The fact that something is undoubtedly taking place in that strategic trench leaves me with no doubt that whatever is down there, is concerned to improve its methods of getting about in the Deep – just as we have improved our ways of getting around on the surface. Similar events seem to be also taking place near the Caribbean and on the west of Guatemala.

Doesn’t it strike you as probable that for a creature of the depths, a tunnel connecting the deeps on either side of the isthmus would offer an advantage almost identical with those that we ourselves obtain from the existence of the Panama Canal?

Kinkajou Kinkajou:   Yes the actions of intelligence are unmistakable. However the very differences in environments that we and they require would make it seem unlikely that human interests and those of these bathetic intelligences need seriously overlap.



Mike Watson Kraken SigmaPsiMike Watson:  You would think so. However, I think they created a conflict, where one need not exist. In sinking our vessels and destroying our exploring craft, retaliation was invited. Our release of atomic weapons in the trench areas guaranteed that they needed to respond in turn to us. The first evidence of retaliation was in the appearance of the tanks. In one site, I noted that the beach was scored in four places by broad furrows leading from the water’s edge towards the huts of the village. I discerned from the light of the sun reflecting off the tracks, that although one of the tracks lead towards the water the other three undoubtedly emerged from it.

Villages began to report being afraid and to say the sea wasn’t safe in many places across the planet. They reported that several shoreline villages were attacked. A number of terrified villagers were convinced they would be next at any moment.

The attacks carried a sort of Cilia weapon. They would develop a sort of rounded extrusion no more than a couple of feet in diameter, surrounded by radiation of cilia. These would burst out radially and grab any organic material in their path. People drawn by the noise of the tanks grinding into their villages would be pulled irresistibly towards these tanks. The cilia were capable of sustaining tension and were able to drag dozens of people at a time towards the tank. I remember after this instance what happened the next morning. Everything in sight glistened with a coating of slime. The previous night, the stuff had possessed a fishy salty smell, but the warmth of the sun at work on it the next day had begun to make it give off an odour that was incredibly fetid, rapidly becoming miasmic. My wife described the cilia as like “multibrachiate tentacular coelenterates”.

We humans were forced to respond. Each of us adapted tactics to overcome the other. We were able to destroy the tanks easily initially with airpower and heavy weapons, though they were immune to rifle fire. Often 100% of the attacking tanks were destroyed. They began to attack under cover of fog when aircraft are grounded. But still we were able to repel them effectively. The sea tanks would withdraw more quickly but the percentage of the losses mounted and I’m sure for them the returns diminished.Kinkajou Kinkajou:   The most powerful weapon of all is intelligence. Any intelligent form dominates by and therefore survives by its intelligence. Any form of intelligence must, by its very existence, threaten to dominate, and therefore threaten extinction. Any intelligent form is its own absolute; and there cannot be two absolutes.

Mike Watson Kraken SigmaPsiMike Watson:  True. The worst was yet to come. We thought we had dominated our unwonted Ocean colonists through our technology and tactics. But they had developed a counter, much more insidious and dangerously effective than direct attack on confrontation.

It seems as if the enemy developed several means of melting the Arctic ice and the Antarctic ice. If such a scheme were put into operation, quite some time would pass before its effects became measurable. Moreover, the effect would be progressive – first a trickle, then a gush, then a torrent. And to us this appeared to be a weapon to which we could oppose no counter.

Because of the winter darkness, we did not realise the significance of the patches of arctic fog. By the end of the Arctic summer, eight fog patches existed in widely separated areas. Now fog is caused as you know, by the meeting of hot and cold currents of either air or water. So how does it happen that eight novel independent water currents suddenly formed throughout the Arctic? The results became evident in the unprecedented flows of broken icebergs in the Bering Sea and into the Greenland Sea. I had seen reports that if the polar (Arctic and Antarctic) ice and if the Greenland ice melted, the sea level would rise by about 30 m.

Kinkajou Kinkajou:   In war you at least have a rough idea of the way your enemy must be thinking. So you can put up an appropriate counter.

Mike Watson Kraken SigmaPsiMike Watson:  Yes, but with these brutes, we are seeing that their counter is almost always something we haven’t explored. The ocean levels eventually did rise over 25 m. A big lot of the best land went under. But we still have organisation, and we can grow food. However the population was down to approximately a 5th to an 8th of what it used to be.

Climate control was a weapon that effectively destroyed huge concentrations of human population and   caused devastation in our cities. Attempts to fight against the rising waters were fraught with disaster, which the enemy was able to exploit without having their tanks even emerge from the water.

For over five years now, the best, the most agile, the most inventive brains in the world have wrestled with the problem of coming to grips with the enemy – and they are still no closer to a solution than when they began. There is, on the present findings, nothing at all to indicate that we shall ever be able to sail the seas in peace again.

Kinkajou Kinkajou:   I was just thinking nothing really is new, is it Mike? Once upon a time there was a great plain, covered with forests and full of wild animals. I expect our ancestors hunted there. Then one day the water came in and drowned all – and there was North Sea. I think we’ve been here before Mike. And we got through last time.

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Wyndham, John

Mike Watson

Kraken Wakes

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Mike Watson

Kraken Wakes






KinkajouMed Kinkajou interviews SigmaPsiJames Lang Parmitter
(Thomas Page: the Hephaestus Plague).

Kinkajou Kinkajou:   I understand that in your era you have discovered an insect that can make fire.

Parmitter Fire Bug SigmaPsiJames Lang Parmitter:    I remember seeing one of the creatures on a piece of wood that was unburned. The insect’s hindquarters vibrated: a pair of tiny cerci – like rear antennae – fluttered like hummingbirds, From beneath the rear rose a small thin spiral of blue woodsmoke. Then a spark winked and spread. The chirping stopped. The bug backed up until blunt head lay over the tiny scorch.

The creature was able to do what no other creature has done before – by means of rapid friction it is able to create fire with its pair of hind legs.

We believed they had escaped from the underground caverns where they lived due to an earthquake rupturing the cavern structure.  There were likely millions of them beneath the earth. They were as old as the dinosaurs. They ate carbon or ashes. Mostly from wood or from plants.

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Kinkajou Kinkajou: Were they really beetles?

Parmitter Fire Bug SigmaPsiJames Lang Parmitter:    No. I believe they were actually a form of cockroach. The roaches have the greatest potential for mutation of any insect in existence. 17 pairs of chromosomes existed within this firemaking species, evidence of substantial complexity.

We became very excited about the potential for discovering the genes that controlled this process. However, it was not to be.

The true story was substantially different from the evidence before our eyes. There was a layer of complexity here which suggested cell growth control, more than simple genes were responsible for the phenomena we were witnessing. As a civilisation we had become used to the concept of genes controlling the creation of a product, for example a protein. But, unbeknownst to us, genetic processes were actually substantially influenced by gene segments flanking the expressed regions and influencing how a product is produced and in what circumstances. It was a difficult prospect for us to come so blatantly to face the limits of our knowledge.

Kinkajou Kinkajou:   Yes. Even in our time the importance of gene expression control is becoming evident. While genes are important it is how they are used and how they interact that is even more important. There is a layer of complexity here which may well take our civilisation, hundreds of years to understand. Many of the differences between humans and chimpanzees, for example, lie not in their genes, but in the way their genes are made to work. And these processes are difficult to locate and track and quantitate. The world is a very complex place.

When finally our race is able to design and control gene expression, we will finally be able to take our place amidst the masters of this planet. The power to make life is to some extent easy. But the power to mould and steer life, from the same raw materials, that indeed is the mark of the Gods. A success in this sphere of unparalleled complexity lies in achievement beyond simple science, beyond the art of man. It is a sign of the hand of God, a hand that has been with humanity since before recorded human history.

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James Lang Parmitter

Hephaestus Plague

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James Lang Parmitter

Hephaestus Plague




KinkajouMed Kinkajou interviews SigmaPsiFellirian
(M. A. Foster – The Game Players of Zan).

Kinkajou Kinkajou:   In your era, I understand that there are two human species, one developed artificially. Tell us about how biotechnology has fashioned the new humanity.

 

Fellirian Alternate Humanity SigmaPsiFellirian:    On planet Earth in the year 2550, there are two human races. I belong to the second human species – the Ler. We live on a reservation of approximately 11,000 km². In this forest preserve, we Ler are allowed to pursue our own ends, and our own destiny. Our lifespans reach 120 years and beyond. Population control is critical in our crowded world.

Of all the methods of contraception, only abstinence has the combination of hundred percent effectiveness and zero side-effects. Zero? Well, not quite zero. There are obvious consequences, even if they are in the mind and not especially located in the body.

Originally, the Ler human species was genetically created to be a new race of supermen, but the experiment has not been entirely successful. We were superior to standard humans in certain ways – but all too human in others.

Kinkajou Kinkajou:   So what was the process by which the Ler were created?

Fellirian Alternate Humanity SigmaPsiFellirian:  “Superior” was the aim of those who manipulated human genetic material to bring us into being. It is not our dream. We have not been immune to it. But they (our creators) didn’t have the fine control. Not then and not now. They could not, for example, read the message of the genetic code and then change exact parts of it to order. They could shock or juggle or graft large segments of DNA and then screen for viabilities. As you know though, mutation only means change.

Out of their program of artifice – several forms actually appeared, all of which were equally viable, more or less. They took us because we looked the least alien. It’s that simple.

No offspring occurs from Human –Ler mating. Conception occurs, but the female aborts within 48 hours. We are in a sense, a door into another possibility – but it is a door is not open to you.  In many ways we complement each other. We are strong in intuitive patterns of thought, but you outclass us in deduction. You are physically stronger, able to endure a wider range of climatic conditions. Whereas we seem to take crowding a little better.

People make much of our memory. It is a total recall system. It sounds like an advance, I agree, but it has drawbacks. For example, we do not have a structure like your subconscious, which serves as a buffer for contradictory experiences. We have to deal with events directly. There is a high degree of skill required, since we are now discussing basic sanity.

Kinkajou Kinkajou:   I think the design of a superhuman is something that requires god-like capabilities. It will be a long time before we can gain the control of the design of intron and exons to understand the effect of changes in these new lifeforms. But it is the control sequences that are the most crucial. Many organisms differ not in the proteins and chemical structures they make, and but in how these are controlled. This is a frontier which humanity must challenge.

The control of certain growth and understand genes and the control of genes affects growth and the structure of the final organism, is a complex challenge indeed.

And it is one issue to understand what is present before you and how it works, and completely another to design something new, and coping with all the possibilities that this entails.

Fellirian Alternate HumanitySigmaPsiFellirian: And so here we are!

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Foster, MA

Fellirian

The Gameplayers of Zahn


 

KinkajouMed Kinkajou interviews SigmaPsiRebel - Elizabeth Mudlark
(Michael Swanwick – Vacuum Flowers)

Kinkajou Kinkajou:   I understand your civilisation has some amazing achievements in biological technology. Tell us something about these.

Rebel Mudlark Girl Escapee SigmaPsiRebel Elizabeth Mudlark:    Biotech has enabled humanity to colonise and flourish within our solar system. It presents some interesting experiences. I remember once working to scrape Vacuum Flowers off the surface of the asteroid Eros. The shiny blue blossoms are surprisingly elusive. The stems are as thin as wire and tougher. Each bloom is the size of human head, but so fragile that it crumples to nothing at the touch of a gloved finger. Initially, a product of human biotechnology, they have become a nuisance infesting many space biota.

Our people routinely use small un-colonised comets to grow timber. I remember reading a story about a lumbered comet carrying a first growth of approximately 70 gigatonnes of oak, teak and mahogany hybrids. The trees had been grown over one long swing down to the sun and back out to the edge of the Oort cloud. Biotechnology allowed us to produce the resources and materials required to live and to colonise space, throughout the solar system.

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Similar technologies are used in creating spaceships. Our people would routinely create biological spaceships: Yggdrasil- the tree of life to travel throughout the solar system, and to provide for and sustain human life while travelling.

Kinkajou Kinkajou:   Your civilisation indeed shows some incredible biotech developments in genetic engineering and in cell growth control to enable humans to function within space. How has your biotechnology helped to human health?

Rebel Mudlark Girl Escapee SigmaPsiRebel Elizabeth Mudlark:    I remember a friend of mine called Jonamon. When you watched him for a period of time, you could see that he suffered from muscle cramps and his breathing would become irregular. It became obvious that his health was being affected by kidney troubles arising from calcium depletion. Many people believed that such alterations in calcium metabolism were not correctable.

When you live a year or more in low gravity environments, you reach a point of no return. It could not be reversed.

However, our technology has progressed past this point.

I could see that such a correction could indeed be quite simple. You could tailor a strain of coralliferous algae to live in the bloodstream. In the first phase, they are free swimming. In the second phase, they colonise the bone tissue, where they die – leaving a little bit of calcium.

Kinkajou Kinkajou:   What? You mean effectively forming a coral reef within the bones?

Rebel Mudlark Girl Escapee SigmaPsiRebel Elizabeth Mudlark:    Yes indeed.

But there are other possibilities as well. I remember meeting someone, and reading their age and their facial muscles. In a flash of insight, I realised that these were the “smoking gun”. This was not a human being. This was a mind that had been reshaped and restructured. The play of intelligence behind those dark eyes was too fast, too intuitive, and too perceptive to be human. The mental life of this creature would be a perpetual avalanche of perception and deduction; that would crash a normal human persona.

This was a tetrad. A single human mind with four distinct personalities.

My friend had done most of the reprogramming. But when you put together a new mind, it is kind of traditional for the programmer to put in a Frankenstein switch in the program – just in case. Sort of a “dead man” switch. At the time, this threat of activating the Frankenstein switch in the creature enabled us to escape from a very difficult situation.

Biotech and technology in general creates more questions to drive the development of even more technology. Where does an airwhale fit into an ecosystem? Why can’t an amogenic construct eat? What are the seven basic adaptations to weightlessness? And the questions continue.

Kinkajou Kinkajou:   My own civilisation is on the brink of exploring the possibilities of biotech in conquering our world and our solar system. We have a long way to go before we catch up with incredible expertise of your era. To leave behind the constraints of one’s biology using developed biotechnology must indeed be one of the dreams of humanity.

Rebel Mudlark Girl Escapee SigmaPsiRebel Elizabeth Mudlark: Bye!

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Swanwick, Michael

Rebel Elisabeth Mudlark

Vacuum Flowers

 

 


KinkajouMed Kinkajou interviews SigmaPsiVoth the Nar
(Donald Moffitt – the Genesis Quest)

Kinkajou Kinkajou:   I understand that even now your people are attempting to bridge the gap between the galaxy in which your people exist and the galaxy which humanity was born. Tell us how humanity was instrumental in helping your people to develop the technology of your civilisation.



Voth Nar Alien ten SigmaPsiVoth the Nar.    Our species has learned many secrets of human knowledge and culture from intercept messages sent by the humans. Before they vanished from the universe, human beings had told us a plan – how to make a human egg – using the energy of whole suns to broadcast the radio wave message across space and between galaxies. Finally, we had accumulated enough knowledge to recreate human beings in the course of their lives.
Kinkajou Kinkajou:   Tell us about the process of discovering human beings.

Voth Nar Alien ten SigmaPsiVoth the Nar. To begin with, we discovered that the arithmetic was base ten, so we believed they must have 10 limbs like us. That much was obvious. We believed that any intelligent life form would necessary resemble us, more or less.

And in recreating humans, what a revelation this was. We had to explain to the first humans why they were different to us. We told them they were made of “human stuff” like other human folk and that their Nar touch brothers were made of Nar stuff, like me.

 



Kinkajou Kinkajou:   Did the humans send you any other biological gifts?  
Voth Nar Alien ten SigmaPsiVoth the Nar. Yes. The first terrestrial life form cultured was the potato. Our people developed considerable experience and expertise working with potato genes before going on to attempt the recreation of other earthly organisms. To this day, our beginning agri- engineering students generally start with the potato. It’s extremely easy to clone. Humans became a part of our civilisation and helped us to expand the frontiers of biology. It was the humans who pioneered and worked at the nucleotide sequence for synthetic monofilament viruses.
To date, our genetic agricultural work has been limited to the genetic codes for 30 basic human food crops that were originally transmitted some centuries ago. 30 – that is if you want to include bacterial protein and heterochromic eggs.
Kinkajou Kinkajou:   I can understand with all this expertise in biology, focusing on genetic engineering and on cloning and cell growth, how your civilisation may well have expanded in ways which were not innate to your people. I understand also that the humans have gone further and used that biological expertise in a fashion to extend the exploration of their people and yours into the galaxy.

Voth Nar Alien ten SigmaPsiVoth the Nar. It takes 37 million years for light to travel from the human sun to here. It would take a full grown spaceship seven times as long to go there. The humans have developed an immortality virus. Although it has come too late for many of the humans we first grew, many have been able to partake of it. This project has taken us almost 40 years and has experienced many unexpected difficulties. But it will enable our people (the Nar) and the humans to explore and colonise this “our” galaxy.


Kinkajou Kinkajou:   The gifts of biological technology can indeed be awesome indeed. To bypass the limitations of one’s birth and one’s genetic construction through the application of learned technology and technological techniques is the true frontier.

Voth Nar Alien ten

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Voth the Nar

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KinkajouMed Kinkajou interviews SigmaPsiKathleen Gray (A.E. Van Vogt: Slan)

Kinkajou Kinkajou:   I’m fascinated by the development of a new super species on the earth. Can you tell me about something of these creatures?

Kathleen Slan Woman SigmaPsiKathleen Gray:    We believe that there was once a war between human beings and Slans, long ago. There is much talk about what was done to human babies. In fact, these things can still happen to human babies. After all, what can a human really know about the mental outlook of an adult Slan whose intelligence is 200 to 300% higher than that of a normal human being? A race capable of mind-reading and equipped with bodies many more times resistant to fatigue than ordinary mortals.

No human can tire a Slan. But when you are a child, even a Slan child, you realise that in spite of tireless muscles, an adult human can run twice as fast simply because they are larger. So there are always depredations especially against the young.

Kinkajou Kinkajou:   It sounds like people are indeed afraid of these new creatures. Kathleen Slan Woman SigmaPsiKathleen Gray:  They say there are still Slans alive throughout the city in spite of all the precautions, and the order is to shoot them on sight. And the mobs are the worst. These days the mobs form beasts, beasts we have built with our own propaganda. They’re afraid, mortally afraid for their babies and we haven’t even got a scientist that can think objectively on the matter. In fact, humanity doesn’t even have a scientist worthy of the name. What incentive is there for a scientist to spend a lifetime in research when in his mind is the degrading knowledge that all the discoveries you can make have long since been perfected by the Slans.

Kinkajou Kinkajou:   I would think that Slans wouldn’t really be shot on sight because such inconsiderate extermination is dangerous. I mean, it is quite possible that perfectly innocent persons might be killed by mistake.

Kathleen Slan Woman SigmaPsiKathleen Gray:  Yes that’s why they seldom do shoot on sight. They try to capture them and examine them. Their internal organs are different to those of humans and on the heads are living tendrils, (the mark of the species).

Kinkajou Kinkajou:   So is it really true that the Slans have made monsters out of human beings? Where did the Slans come from in the first place? Were they made – like in machines?

Kathleen Slan Woman SigmaPsiKathleen Gray:  I was born like everyone else, so are my parents. But there are other legends. Apparently, one morning, quite without knowing how it had been done, the human race awoke to discover that the enemy had taken control. The new Slan government continued ruthlessly trying to make Slans out of human babies. Normal humans accused Samuel Lann, the human being and biological scientist who created the first Slans of fostering in his children the belief that they would rule the world.

 

 

Kinkajou Kinkajou:   Sounds like some very difficult genetics experiments were undertaken?

Kathleen Slan Woman SigmaPsiKathleen Gray:  The reasons for Slan- human matings being sterile, are difficult to define because human beings and Slans do not appear to differ from each other to any marked degree. The amazing musculature of the Slan is due not to new types of muscle, but to a speeding up of the electric impulses that activate the muscles. There is also an increase in nerves to every part of the body, making it tremendously more sensitive. The two hearts are not really two hearts, but a combination, each section of which can operate independently of the other. Nor are the two together very much larger than the original. They are simply finer pumps.

The tendrils that send and receive thoughts are growths which derive from previously little-known formations at the top of the brain. They in fact exist even within the normal human (perhaps explaining the human history of telepathic and psychic phenomena).

So what did Samuel Lann do with his mutation machine to his wife who bore him the first three Slan babies? The theory is that he had not added anything new to the human body, but that he changed or mutated what already existed.

Kinkajou Kinkajou:   A remarkable achievement in that the improvements in the human body probably relate more to improvements in cell growth control, albeit  the use of introns from within the DNA of the genes to affect cellular and body functions. It is a fact that much of the difference between human beings and chimpanzees does not lie within the expressed products of the DNA genes (exons). It is in fact thought to depend much more upon alterations in the control sequences of the genes and gene products already in existence.

A superior capacity involves the recipes for making biological organisms. It is the formula for combining and controlling the disparate elements that really makes all the difference. In making a cake, it is the sequence and method of combining the ingredients that makes the truly superior feast.

Probably the most obvious aspect to the situation is the degree to which science and perhaps God / Art combine. We can appreciate the finished product: the Slan. But could we have ever even have set out to design one? 

And there is so much we do not understand. How can we create superior intelligence with a genetic cookbook, if we cannot even understand what is the basis of memory and intelligence? Humanity has a long way to go.

Kathleen Slan Woman SigmaPsiKathleen Gray:  Slan scientists may well have discovered answers already.

 

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Van Vogt, A.E.

Kathleen Layton Gray

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KinkajouMed Kinkajou interviews SigmaPsiVirgil Ulam: (Greg Bear: Blood Music)

 

Kinkajou Kinkajou:   I see that in your world, cellular intelligence has developed in human lymphocytes. And you were the sole pioneer of research and development in this field.




Virgil Blood Lymphocyte SigmaPsiVirgil Ulam:    Yes indeed. In my laboratory, many of my researchers were limiting themselves to silicon and protein research. Whereas In almost every living cell there is already a functioning computer with a huge memory. A mammalian cell has a DNA complement of several billion base pairs, each capable of acting as a piece of information. What is reproduction after all but a computerised biological process of enormous complexity and reliability?

I was tracked to the possibilities of biological DNA memory and intelligence. My head would whorl with possibilities, thousands of ways for cells to communicate with each other and develop their own intellect. The idea of an intellectual cell was wonderfully strange to me.

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Kinkajou Kinkajou:   How do you convert DNA to read/write memory?

Virgil Blood Lymphocyte SigmaPsiVirgil Ulam:  First you need to find a link the viral DNA that codes for topo-isomerases and gyrases. You attach the segment to target DNA and make it easier to lower the linking number, to negatively supercoil your target molecule. I used ethidium in some earlier experiments.

What you want is to add and subtract lengths of input DNA easily and the feedback enzyme arrangement does this. When the feedback is in place, the molecule will open itself for transcription, much more easily and more rapidly. Your program will be transcribed into strings of RNA. One of the RNA strings will go to the reader – a ribosome for translation into a protein. Initially, the first RNA will carry a simple start-up code.

 


Kinkajou Kinkajou:   And how does all this lead to intelligence?



Virgil Blood Lymphocyte SigmaPsiVirgil Ulam:  I’m not certain. I just began finding replication of logic circuits easier and easier. Whole stretches of the genome seemed to open themselves up to the process. There are even parts I’d swear, that were already coded for simple logic assignments.

I think the DNA itself made me do it. The goddamn genes. I believe they didn’t want to rely on us anymore. I think the DNA was just leading up to – what it had done. You know – emergence. A coming out party. Tempting somebody, in fact anybody into giving it what it wanted.

It should have taken a whole research project – the equivalent of the Manhattan Project team to do what I did. I’m bright, but I’m not that bright. Things just fell into place. It was too easy.

DNA Translation DNA Translation

Once I had started the process and switched on the genetic sequences which could compound and duplicate the biological DNA segments, the cells begin to function as autonomous units. They began to think for themselves and develop more complex brains. I was able to train lymphocytes to interact as much as possible with each other and their environment. They were able to travel through a complex miniature glass maze and to obtain their nutritional rewards with incredible speed. I was sure that every lymphocyte in the sample I was watching had the potential intellectual capacity of a rhesus monkey.

I even noticed that at times they would cluster. They used to cram together in the medium. Maybe hundred or 200 cells. I could never figure out why. Now it seems obvious. They cooperate.

 

Kinkajou Kinkajou:   So how have you been changed by being host to these the sites?




Virgil Blood Lymphocyte SigmaPsiVirgil Ulam:  My health has improved incredibly. At one stage I became quite irritated and uncomfortable. The lymphocytes were getting into my skin. I figured the reason they were doing this was the simplicity of running circuits across the surface. Much easier than trying to maintain lines of communication through muscles and organs and the vascular system. Much more direct.

The lymphocytes are literally swimming above information. Contributing to it.


I think it’s a kind of Gestalt thing. Then development of intelligence. The hierarchy is absolute. They sent tailored phages after cells that don’t interact properly. Viruses specified to individuals or groups. There is no escape. An errant cell gets pierced by the virus and it explodes and dissolves. The lymphocytes vary a lot from cell to cell. It’s not just a dictatorship. If there are individuals, they vary in different ways than we do.

Kinkajou Kinkajou:   We’re not used to seeing cells commanding a much larger structure such as the mammalian body. In the human world, a brood of trillions of little live things – microbes, bacteria, single cells: all the peasants of nature; they are born and they die. And they don’t account for much except with the bulk of their numbers and the accumulation of their tiny lives. It is humbling to see a new path to intelligence become a reality. And to make this reality happen, tools capable of working with individual cells are essential. Tools that can process individual strands of DNA. Toolsets capable of processing DNA.

 

Child Mammalian
Child Mammalian : full of lymphocytes:
Like Us all - perhaps a hive collection of intelligences.



Kinkajou Kinkajou: I believe while your work was a solo and inspiring effort, it was the development of the tools for working with the microbial and nano- world that was the real advance enabling you to make your breakthroughs.

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