06-27-2015, 12:00 AM
Artifact #3 - "An Early Non-Working Model of the Human Brain"
Our team has found something exciting. We have no idea where the Juliopolitans got it from, but we've found an artifact that appears to have come initially from a non-human source. Apparently these aliens were in fact responsible for creating the human brain, if not the entire human model from which we originate. The artifact we found came in a box, where it was a perfect scale-model of a human brain made out of a spongy material that appears to be very resistant to biodegradation. It feels and acts much like a kitchen sponge, but it's fibers seem more resiliant and it has a bit of a "plastic" feel to it.
Along with the model were a stack of papers on which the Juliopolitans had left notes. In addition to these was another stack of metal sheets, on which were engraved symbols that do not match the Juliopolitan alphabet, nor any other known script of humankind. The Juliopolitan's notes claim these were written by aliens and that they had translated them... and now we've translated some of their translations. According to that, the alien writing was instructions written by the design team outlining the details of the model and what work was still needed. Some of the issues included...
1. There was some kind of communication foul-up in which the brain would mistake ideas which popped into it for it's own creations.2. When the owners tried on the brains, they usually thought they were the products (translators say they are about 75% confident in this translation) of the brain.3. The translators had a bit of trouble with this one. Apprently the sentence structure was akward. I guess that's what happens when you translate something from an ancient, little understood language that was originally a translation into that from an alien language. This is what they've come up with as a close translation so far... There is some sort of a valuation system in which the brain rates it's abilities compared to other brains and attributes great importance to those ratings. These brains are completely failing to process that they are basically an antenna for recieving outside inspirations and that their ability to manipulate that data is roughly equivalent to all the other brains, with the method chosen for the manipulation being the only significant difference in the quality of the results of such manipulation. The valuation system is so bad the brains choose not pay attention to the methods of manipulation but only the ratings assigned each brain. These ratings are supposed to represent each one's skill at manipulating and creating ideas, (which it only recieved through it's antenna in the first place), ambiguously called thinking. These ratings are loosely along the lines of attributing to each brain an imaginary smarty number. Those who created the tests which determine these smarty numbers can not actually define smarty nor describe what the difference in each number meant; such as what specifically a brain with a smarty number measured at 159 could do that one whose measured smarty number is 158 could not, yet the average brain refuses to consider this or ascribe it any import when it is pointed out. When witnessing the apparent results of itself or other brains' manipulation (or reception) of data, the average brain uses this information not to learn methods for duplication or look for flaws in it's own methods of manipulation, but merely to modify it's guess as to how the brains in question relate to each other on the smarty number scale. This flaw makes the human brain laughable and it must be fixed. I don't see any way to do this without replacing the cheap ego substance used for the brain matter with the more expensive xecxactic (a word apparently referring to a material that has the qualities of introspection, questioning, openess and flexibility?) material. There's more info there which has yet to be translated, but I felt this was enough to get it into the artifact stash. Thank God they fixed that early model of the human brain eh? Can you imagine how ridiculous it would be if that early model is how human brains actually ended up.
Our team has found something exciting. We have no idea where the Juliopolitans got it from, but we've found an artifact that appears to have come initially from a non-human source. Apparently these aliens were in fact responsible for creating the human brain, if not the entire human model from which we originate. The artifact we found came in a box, where it was a perfect scale-model of a human brain made out of a spongy material that appears to be very resistant to biodegradation. It feels and acts much like a kitchen sponge, but it's fibers seem more resiliant and it has a bit of a "plastic" feel to it.
Along with the model were a stack of papers on which the Juliopolitans had left notes. In addition to these was another stack of metal sheets, on which were engraved symbols that do not match the Juliopolitan alphabet, nor any other known script of humankind. The Juliopolitan's notes claim these were written by aliens and that they had translated them... and now we've translated some of their translations. According to that, the alien writing was instructions written by the design team outlining the details of the model and what work was still needed. Some of the issues included...
1. There was some kind of communication foul-up in which the brain would mistake ideas which popped into it for it's own creations.2. When the owners tried on the brains, they usually thought they were the products (translators say they are about 75% confident in this translation) of the brain.3. The translators had a bit of trouble with this one. Apprently the sentence structure was akward. I guess that's what happens when you translate something from an ancient, little understood language that was originally a translation into that from an alien language. This is what they've come up with as a close translation so far... There is some sort of a valuation system in which the brain rates it's abilities compared to other brains and attributes great importance to those ratings. These brains are completely failing to process that they are basically an antenna for recieving outside inspirations and that their ability to manipulate that data is roughly equivalent to all the other brains, with the method chosen for the manipulation being the only significant difference in the quality of the results of such manipulation. The valuation system is so bad the brains choose not pay attention to the methods of manipulation but only the ratings assigned each brain. These ratings are supposed to represent each one's skill at manipulating and creating ideas, (which it only recieved through it's antenna in the first place), ambiguously called thinking. These ratings are loosely along the lines of attributing to each brain an imaginary smarty number. Those who created the tests which determine these smarty numbers can not actually define smarty nor describe what the difference in each number meant; such as what specifically a brain with a smarty number measured at 159 could do that one whose measured smarty number is 158 could not, yet the average brain refuses to consider this or ascribe it any import when it is pointed out. When witnessing the apparent results of itself or other brains' manipulation (or reception) of data, the average brain uses this information not to learn methods for duplication or look for flaws in it's own methods of manipulation, but merely to modify it's guess as to how the brains in question relate to each other on the smarty number scale. This flaw makes the human brain laughable and it must be fixed. I don't see any way to do this without replacing the cheap ego substance used for the brain matter with the more expensive xecxactic (a word apparently referring to a material that has the qualities of introspection, questioning, openess and flexibility?) material. There's more info there which has yet to be translated, but I felt this was enough to get it into the artifact stash. Thank God they fixed that early model of the human brain eh? Can you imagine how ridiculous it would be if that early model is how human brains actually ended up.