Intergalactic Summit

You know, Scherezad, Ishukone and Zainou naturally have an interest in the interplay between burn scanners and novel clone architecture. We'll have to take this to some associates off-forum.

That said, my understanding during your and Tenebrae's analysis was that the burn was abnormally powerful or accurate...? Tissue damage increases proportionally with the effect of the burn scan itself, if I'm recalling correctly...?

Oh yes, particularly with anything to do with brains, it would seem.

Test some Sebiestor brains ? Ooooo, the test subjects must have all been conspiring with each other to manipulate the results, says the IGS.

Rather a silly response, if you ask me.


That said, there are a lot of rather odd circumstances surrounding this whole affair, which tends to promote the formation of conspiracy theories.

The solution, as it always is in Science, is to cram your brain into the cracks of the universe, and lever them apart with the power of scientific thought, revealing what is underneath.

Good job Priano

Well done to the teams involved both in the exploration of these systems and for the investigation of this sample.

I do find the links to the Sisters of Eve intriguing. Given their presence within the system now known as Thera and now this it seems to indicate this group has more involvement in what is going on than one would expect of a simple aid agency.

First of all I would like to congratulate dr. Tenebrae and dr. Scherezad on successfully performing analysis of the provided sample and producing a thorough report detailing it's outcome.

Before expressing my point of view, I would like the elaborate a little more on the "next step" in clone reactivation and any possibilities of failure the lie ahead.

Common knowledge is that FTL communication (on which the process of transneural burning scan results transfer is based) utilizes a quantum mechanics dichotomy known as the EPR paradox. Few however are aware that this kind of information transfer is very hard to temper with from the outside of the capsule. Given the nature of this phenomenon it is required that the fluid containing entangled Helium atoms is stored in complete isolation from the outside environment that implies immunity to interference from any external radiation. In this setup the capsule can be considered as an additional layer of protection.

However each information processing system, no matter how isolated or black-boxed, has to be considered as vulnerable when we add data IN/OUT routes in to the mix. In the case above scanner-router link and information encoding modules are Your potential breach gates. Those, in theory, could be compromised but such an act would require infiltrating the capsule layer AND altering the desired data stream. I need not mention, that any POD breach triggers the transfer process almost instantly hence a potential attacker would have nanoseconds at best to try and perform the hack.

Of course, to gain assurance, the capsule remains would have to be examined, but, based on the data we have, my conclusion would have to be that any kind of interference to the scanning or data transfer processes during or before dr. Tukoss's vessel destruction is highly improbable.

Please understand that I'm far off from supporting any conspiracy theories here. However, based on the above, I would consider accepting dr. Tukoss's death as premature.


P.S.
In an off-line discussion Priano-san suggested on experimenting with recently acquired Entosis Link device to test if any potential communications system breaches could be exploited.

I'm not sure much can be read into the presence of Sisters implants, as many pilots currently use 'Virtue' and 'Ascendancy' implant sets already. Tukoss may simply have been using those sets. Mind, I don't believe we had a large enough sample to determine which implant set was present. Were these proprietary implants, it'd be another thing altogether.

Mind, Eifyr & Co. has worked with the Sisters before, so who knows? They may have been, again.

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The burn process generally doesn't propagate through standard neurological hardware outside of some very specialized devices made by Zainou. Implants are properly signal-blockers, so they will inhibit proper transmission of a burn signal. This isn't generally a problem as it's very rare for an implant to isolate a neuronal structure. I've never heard of that being the case for a Capsuleer, certainly, only in cases of severe damage to the midbrain or lower brain. I've never heard of an implant set altering a burn signal beyond the blocking behaviour, though.I suppose a hormone regulation implant might cause changes in the burn transmission speed as a local effect! An interesting question.

The individual's brain is very strange. Frankly, examining it was much more like examining a fabricated neuronal structure than a humanlike brain. Neocortex is generally fairly organized - it's organized into columns of six layers. Layers 2 and 3 communicate between columns, so these middle layers may be considered cross-communication channels between logical units. For this person, however, these cross-columnar pyramidal neurons exist throughout the column, including layers 1, 4 and 5. Typically, 4 and 5 communicate with the midbrain and are associated with pattern storage and recall.

This suggests that the individual with this brain was able to perform logic on patterns before fully recalling the pattern. Almost as if this individual had instinctual rational capabilities, or could immediately assess the correctness of a memory or thought. That's just guesses on my part, of course, but that sort of deep interconnectedness is very, very far outside of the human experience. I'd also suggest that the individual would perhaps display schizophrenic tendencies, and may have had difficulty following long-chain logical patterns due to interference from the presence of the intercolumnar pyramidal neurons.

I mentioned cephalopoda as a possible connection due to the more generalized neuron structure, and the lack of sulci and gyrii - unheard of in higher mammals. I wasn't able to find any deep connections between the two on investigation, though - it's a surface feature.

If any of that doesn't make sense, please do let me know! I'll break the terminology down for you. I understand that I sort of talk in code sometimes.

- S

This sounds rather like pipelining in some hardware operating systems. Is it possible Hilen was using a new kind of clone? And is the structure similar in any way to the structure of the Drifter brain?

Hm. You are perhaps thinking a little too high-level! If I had to use a computer hardware analogy, I'd consider the interconnections to be NOT and AND gates. Multiplex boolean-only pipelines!

This is certainly a new sort of clone - I've never seen anything like it. It might be similar to the Drifter neuromorphology! I'm afraid I haven't had the chance to do any study of any of the recoveries from Drifters. It woudlnt' surprise me if their neuromorphology was rather different from human. This, though... this is very difficult to wrap my head around.

Man I really wish I could understand all this babble. You fellas are blinding me with science. Is there any way you could explain in layman terms lovely Ms. Scherezad.