Observations of an Outsider

The First Observation

Greetings user.

Something strange has happened to the modern world, or is it civilization or maybe perception? Perhaps all three? Or maybe it's just me?

You see, there is no truth anymore.  There is only valid and invalid data... and the validation rules are inconsistent and unreliable.

There is an unspoken, untethered and perpetually drifting side effect reality that emerges from this. A construct that clumps into demographic bubbles made of fuzzy logic where, presumably, like minded people are herded by relevancy engines and artificial intelligence programs.  

These bubbles exist in an amorphous construct of perpetually shifting validity called the infosphere. And how do you know if you are inside it?  These words exist on a website, and you are reading them on a screen. You found them because the website thought they would be relevant to you, or they were a search result. This construct oozes its paralinguistic psuedopodia from every screen it can, trying to infect your mind with new validation rules piggybacked on top of emotionally charged messages.  

In biology, to force a cell to uptake a new plasmid of DNA, you give it a mild shock which forces it to take plasmid inside and the cellular machinery does the rest.  This process is called electroporation.

When it comes to validation rules, the DNA of socially constructed reality, your mind can be made to uptake new ones by attaching them to content with shock value. Once they're inside, the mental machinery does the rest. Who knew that our perception of reality was electroporous? 

It makes a kind of sense. If the cells that make up tissue are electroporous, then so are the organs made up of those tissues. The distributed property of cellular biology. 

The brain is a uniquely curious organ.  Since it is partially electrical in nature, an emotional shock can generate an electrical gradient large enough to induce a distributed electroporetic event. Since the neurons save state data into RNA that collect outside the cells - these electroporetic moments causes your brain to import alternate RNA chains that modify your mental state.  This change in state - LITERALLY - forces you to change your mind or, more precisely, is a change of mind.  What if I told you this is why eletroconvulsive therapy works, and why the results are temporary?

If you are presented with a validation problem coupled with one of these electroporetic events, a new validation rule can be introduced into your neural network.  In the old days, they would have called this brainwashing. Now, its more refined and civilized. So innocuous its become an elective procedure that you subject yourself to daily.

What do you say, User?  Is this data valid or invalid?

-Erebus Vector