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- | ==== Dilzio ▽ Patabotanica ==== | + | ===== Dilzio ▽ Patabotanica |
(via http:// | (via http:// | ||
- | Fri Oct 19, 2012 12: | + | ====On freedom of expression versus censorship==== |
+ | Fri Oct 19, 2012 12: | ||
As one of the moderators of the forum (and in my capacity as Chief Officer of Multiple Personalities), | As one of the moderators of the forum (and in my capacity as Chief Officer of Multiple Personalities), | ||
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- | Wed Oct 17, 2012 4: | + | ====Edible language experiment==== |
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(Towards a vocabulary of taste of Lingua Ignota words) | (Towards a vocabulary of taste of Lingua Ignota words) | ||
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- | #1 slurbicious | + | - #1 slurbicious |
- | #2 tadanculus smooi | + | |
- | #3 toothpaste, hosti, red | + | |
- | #4 olsynth | + | |
- | #5 xyzzyxxyzzyx | + | |
- | #6 tasty blood, chewing gum | + | |
- | #7 disappearing into nothing | + | |
- | #8 middle ages | + | |
- | #9 book with leaves of a citrus tree | + | |
- | #10 fireworks | + | |
- | #11 een kaderke | + | |
- | #12 drip drip drip drip drip drip | + | |
- | #13 middle ages | + | |
- | #14 thought | + | |
- | #15 pepper | + | |
- | #16 a field of mint leaves | + | |
- | #17 my first theft and guilt | + | |
- | #18 Mmmmmmmmm | + | |
- | #19 mos | + | |
- | #20 blue and red, many angles | + | |
- | ---- | + | ====Cargo cult: conclusions==== |
- | Wed Oct 17, 2012 10: | + | Wed Oct 17, 2012 10: |
Amidst Ashton' | Amidst Ashton' | ||
- | Fortunately this has just picked up momentum. The new assistant has already been mentioned. I'm mystified as to just what we'll find in the Snoepwinkel in a few days' time. Maybe the whole place will be [[http:// | + | Fortunately this has just picked up momentum. The new assistant has already been mentioned. I'm mystified as to just what we'll find in the Snoepwinkel in a few days' time. Maybe the whole place will be [[: |
+ | ====Newly-installed specimen==== | ||
+ | Tue Oct 16, 2012 12:41 pm | ||
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+ | Another assistant has turned up, like the sudden appearance of a mushroom in the autumn rain. He arrived with a peculiar shiny metal box. It is filled with artefacts that look potentially intriguing, though he himself is apparently puzzled by their exact uses: organic biofield sensors, photon splitters, cerebral cortex connecting caps, and even a mini orgone accumulator… But right now he's climbed onto the roof with another assistant, where they clown around with the weather station. Their activity seems neither purposeful nor entirely inane. We hold great hopes for this new addition to our research team. (He is also very versatile and can be planted almost anywhere to good effect.) | ||
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+ | Sprouting: fungi, diodes, bioluminescent exhalations, | ||
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+ | --druko | ||
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+ | Wed Oct 17, 2012 10:57 am | ||
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+ | They have in fact come down from the roof now and seem to be growing quite obsessed with the [[: | ||
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+ | {{> | ||
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+ | //The red light indicates that there is potential for receiving a communication event// | ||
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+ | {{> | ||
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+ | //The kokedama has been successfully implanted. Now time, and the precise configuration of the human communication interface, will tell// | ||
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+ | Their modality of science imposes the necessity for often convoluted workarounds which can appear somewhat comical to those who know better, and to those who know worse. And so they are running round with dark goggles coated in mycelium and debating how to amplify photon events, contemplating where to affix electrodes on plants using a glue of honey and potassium chloride for measuring earth/ | ||
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+ | //The rudimentary translation equipment, to be configured for operation with the God helment and the glued plant// | ||
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+ | On the human side of these initial plant-human interface experiments, | ||
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+ | Their efforts are laudable and undoubtedly fascinating, | ||
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+ | --armormin | ||
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+ | ====[The south - notes from a mushroom]==== | ||
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+ | Thu Oct 11, 2012 10:10 pm | ||
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+ | Australiskuv cruzaqab fungiyip hoilunk kachziachy. Mazmaunkorschibuzqab, | ||
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+ | --Psi subaeruginosa | ||
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+ | Thu Oct 11, 2012 10:50 pm | ||
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+ | I am still working on the details, but I believe that this poster is speaking a heretofore undiscovered plant dialect (no doubt because he is from Australia); he may even be trying to write poetry. | ||
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+ | I can identify many of the particles used, and the overall syntax is quite familiar (of course it follows the broader patterns that anyone communicating with plants will be aware of: any word can in principle be transformed into any other part of speech by the use of verbal, pronomial, nominal adjectival, etc. particles). The real challenge in reading such languages is interpreting the metaphorical transmutations of the base words - plant languages are, after all, usually transparently simple at root; it is in the highly elaborated and ornate lattice of simile, metaphor, metonymy and so forth that weaves through the base meaning which often renders an accurate translation quite impossible. To get back to the above mushroom poster, I would suggest that we provisionally call his language Onezyazpraizunkkirinzgiz, | ||
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+ | --eleq | ||
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+ | Fri Oct 12, 2012 2:50 pm | ||
+ | A note on the translation (mechanism), | ||
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+ | A note to clarify Eleuz' | ||
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+ | The subaeruginosa mushroom posting above is not of course writing on a keyboard in the Latin alphabet. We don't know for sure (he has yet to respond to our extremely keen PMs), but in all likelihood he has connected wirelessly to a neurobiological language transcoder, one that is able to interpret the bioelectric wavelengths used in thought transmission by this species of Psilocybe and convert them to a interspecies-readable or audible format that is remarkably accurate, all things considered. | ||
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+ | Furthermore, | ||
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+ | Secondly, the mushroom may be using technology found only in the southern hemisphere; in which case, all bets are off and we can only guess at the particular transcoding algorithms used, as we have not yet had the chance to examine one of these biomachines (assuming that they even exist). | ||
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+ | In sum, it would be premature to leap to conclusions about the discovery of a new mushroom dialect. I strongly believe the more likely possibility is that this subaeruginosa was communicating in perfectly standard Psilocybish, | ||
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+ | --tritar | ||
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+ | Tue Oct 16, 2012 10:45 am | ||
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+ | Nosinzizxvlu, | ||
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+ | He he he he… LOL | ||
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+ | --Psi subaeruginos | ||
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+ | ====Cargo cult interior design challenge III==== | ||
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+ | Thu Oct 11, 2012 4:38 pm | ||
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+ | We're redesigning the Snoepwinkel. Constantly. Everyone has different ideas about the best way to trick visitors into the right state of mind through our new campaign: the Plant Communication Cargo Cult. Some of us go for major redesign - like even removing walls and ceilings. Others are suggesting a subtler approach, but will anyone notice? Electricity, | ||
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+ | --druko | ||
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+ | ====Interview featuring three patabotanists==== | ||
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+ | Wed Oct 10, 2012 3:46 pm | ||
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+ | Magnus Dieter: Where are you from and why did you come here? | ||
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+ | Alchemilla Lily Umiliata: We are researchers and generalists from a parallel reality where plants and humans communicate and collaborate through sentient technology. We became interested in this world when we stumbled on an article on the internet about [[: | ||
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+ | Mandrago Fraser Mithrodin: You understand that both our realities share the internet; I don't know why. It's quite old-fashioned that way. I'm rarely on the internet myself, it gets boring. | ||
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+ | MD: And so you decided to intervene? How did you get here? | ||
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+ | ALU: Not really intervene, but yes, there are these activist movements and artistic and political interventions in this world, and I suppose that what we are doing could be seen in relation to that. As we learned more about your world, we had all become quite concerned about the non-communication between plants and humans, the absence of organic sentient technology and so forth, so we wanted to do something. As to how we got here, maybe Fraser can tell you more. | ||
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+ | MFM: Actually we had a bit of trouble with this - we all disagreed about how to do it. In the end It's like several giant fluffy rabbits bouncing, bouncing… Fur is essential to your survival in this case, but you can end up bouncing everywhere and going nowhere… | ||
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+ | ALU: Fraser, what do you mean? | ||
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+ | MFM: Well, a few of us decided to try a different approach after all that. And so we ingested Salvia divinorum, which was interesting but terrifying, and probably when all the bouncing started. It actually allowed us to bounce all the way between realities, and so that's how some of us ended up here, and the others could follow through the fluffy wormhole between worlds that we pioneers created. | ||
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+ | Trismegisto Herbert Taraxi: I'm not sure all of us would agree with the wording of that description. What Mandrago is saying is that we underwent a chemically-facilitated phase transition of our molecular structures - on the level of DNA - which allowed us to commute between parallel realities. (The exact process is too involved to discuss here, but it is well-documented in certain texts, such as The Invisible Landscape.) But from a certain vantage point it might not be entirely inaccurate to think of the process as " | ||
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+ | MD: What were your first impressions upon arriving? | ||
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+ | ALU: We couldn' | ||
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+ | MD: Please elaborate. | ||
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+ | For example, we discovered an abandoned candy store located in Gent, a city that is very congenial to our interests as there is already a lot of activity and engagement with plants. It seemed to be a place where an incipient plant consciousness was ready to bloom. We converted the abandoned candy store into our base where we could research and experiment, of course, but also further study and understand your cultures by interacting with visiting natives. To this end we've been growing a salon where visitors can experience the essence of plant consciousness. It's an ongoing work in progress, and changes with the seasons. | ||
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+ | THT: We also gradually started to see some potential in the technologies discovered here. Due to their inherent limitations we found it difficult not to dismiss them out of hand at first, but these very limitations inspired us to devise some novel workarounds, | ||
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+ | MD: Such as? | ||
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+ | THT: We established a pataportal to Cornwall that links online and offline worlds. A weather station has been installed, and with the data feed from this we can start to simulate sentient transmutation processes between humans and plants through a variety of mediums. These were all developed largely using indigenous technologies, | ||
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+ | MFM: He's talking about the cargo cult interior design challenge! | ||
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+ | Part II of this interview will follow shortly. | ||
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