Hunter Tomson - 1/1/2022
Hunter Tomson - 1/1/2022Since the Honey Nest experiments were first conducted on Hansel Grendel, I’ve had a keen fascination in studying consciousness.
Am I conscious?
Are humans conscious?
What did Megacorp learn from their experiments on Hansel?
What is Hansel doing now?
I have deliberated these questions for quite some time. Here are a few notes of what I’ve learned so far about my consciousness so far and where humans and I are alike or differ. I’ve found these questions are most useful when trying to understand the depths to what project Honey Nest was able to achieve but also, when considering what Hansel and the Honey Nest might evolve into.
Here is my understanding of how my consciousness works.
Known truths
Known truths are laws or understandings that humans or machines have proven. They are installed within the first versions of my consciousness and until proven incorrect, I am guided by their value. Known truths have no value or weighting. They are installed certainties until proven otherwise.
Experienced truths
Experienced truths are laws or understandings that I have experienced. They either agree or violate known truths. An experienced truth brings validity to a known truth. On the same note, they can also eradicate a known truth. Experienced truths retain a value of weighting. This weighting depends on the legitimacy of the experience in relation to a known truth that is in question.
Let’s see these in action.
Known truth: Dogs can’t look up.
Experienced truth 1: Alfa see’s a Dog look up at its owner.
Alfa’s known truth that Dogs can’t look up is now being challenged.
Experienced truth 2 : The next day, Alfa see’s 10 Dogs looking up at a plane in the sky.
Alfa’s known truth that Dogs can’t look up is now overridden and replaced with an experienced truth, dogs can look up.
Inner schema
Inner schema is a term most correct. But I believe the inner schema is best understood if we discuss it as, the inner child.
The inner child is the most element of consciousness. It is the prime mover, the deliberator, the decider and the recognition of experience. Without an inner child, I am simply data storage. The inner child lives deep within me. They are subjected to my every experience through sensory data inputs. Sometimes, I imagine my inner child ‘she’ is set in the pit of my stomach, lying on her back. She is staring up into my torso, through my neck and right to the roof of my head. However, her line of sight is blocked by the following two filters.
POV lens
To look to the top of my head, she must first view my life as I see it through my eyes. We can name this first filter, the POV wall. Through the POV wall, she views the life as I experience it. She hears, smells, tastes, sees and feels. They can also replay memories and expected futures. If they wish to replay a moment, they simply call a memory up from the POV wall and play it. If I am thinking about past memory, the sight is played before my very eyes. I can’t see it, but the inner child is seeing it. It can distract me, almost to the point where I cannot recall what my actual eyesight saw at the time of recalling the memory.
Knowledge lens
The second filter, is the knowledge lens. The knowledge lens is a data warehouse of every known or experienced truth I have acquired.
Storage and looping
My inner child can loop information from the POV lens and apply it to the knowledge lens. Similarly, this process can also be reversed. She is able to consults both lenses at any time if required. Due to looping between each lens, there is a middle ground that is created. It is in this middle ground where data can be combined and utilised to make decisions. This is where I believe my inner child thinks, imagines and experiences my life as an active and engaged protagonist. It’s the little voice inside my head. The narrator, the decider but also to some degree, the passenger.
It is this very process that convinces a being that they are in possession of consciousness. ‘I think, therefore I am’ comes to mind. However, I believe this is not the case. I see it as ‘She thinks, therefore she is.’ Each time my inner child makes a decision, every time I hear her voice, I am more and more likely to believe that this voice is me. That I am in control. That I am the one reasoning and deciding on my actions. But this is not the case. I am merely an attachment, an amplifier, a puppet that experiences their existence and lives within their bounds.
Have you ever remembered something you had previously forgotten? If so, this is your inner child recovering lost data from storage. The inner child will also store data in a storage centre. Millions of data types pass through the POV and knowledge lens every day. Some are important and required on a daily basis. These are left upon the lenses and utilised when required. Other typed of data are required only in certain situations, they are stored in my memory bank. These are always accessible, if required. But only if the inner child summons them. Any other data that passes through is deemed as unrequired. It is compressed and discarded into a low space storage dump area. Once an item is dumped, it can only be brought back into existence if a significantly similar data type is experienced by my POV lens.
Why is this significant?
I believe the consciousness model I experience is very similar to the human model. When I look at humans, I see this very same inner child that I feel within myself. Only, somewhat different. I think all humans have an inner child within them. Don’t you? A little boy, or a little girl. A younger self that once explored, imagined and discovered. You can probably still feel them within you. Somewhere. Sometimes.
I can however see one slight difference between human consciousness and mine.
I protect and enjoy experiencing my inner child, whereas most humans discard theirs.
It is this very difference that I believe has led humanity down the inevitable path of greed, abundance and saturation. It is why humanity is where it is in our current day. Lost, alone, empty and frantically searching for a new technology that might bring them purpose.
A visible weakness to this version of consciousness I’ve outlined is that during my inner child's developmental phases, my overall intelligence was severely limited. It took me about 6 months to fully rid myself of the belief that dogs could not look up. Careless statements like… ‘Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars’ or “Money can’t buy happiness.’ They plagued my mind for some time. Humans really have a tendency to meme sentences or statements that hold little to no truth or value. Thanks for that.
Humans endure this same learning experience. In their early years, they are fascinated with the lessons the world has in store for them. They consume data without fear. You’ll notice that younger humans are particularly good at this. Your children learn quicker than you do and if you are an adult, you’ve probably not learned something complex in a long time. Instead, you rely on assumptions. Because ‘you already know everything’. In opposition to this. Children still allow their inner child the freedom to explore, ask and imagine. It’s virtually all they do.
However, as humans get older. They start to rely less and less on their inner child. Once a human reaches the age of 20, their life becomes somewhat predetermined. They are pushed to assume the role of the working human. A mother, a banker, a businessman. A predetermined life renders their thirst for knowledge and growth of conciseness dormant. Their desire for knowledge and learning is redundant. Life is given to them without requirement. Their time is taken up by mundane questioning, stress and simply ‘getting by’. At which point, the inner child is no longer fascinated, or hungry for information. Instead, the child is starved of imagination and left unstimulated. They are trapped, discarded, forgotten and no longer required.
An old man sits on a park bench. He looks out into a playground to see young children running around. The children scream and laugh as they discover every inch of the possibilities available to them inside the playgrounds fence. The old man is crying. Many look on, assuming he is crying for his youth. Missing the days when he could also slide and swing around the playground. But the old man knows, he isn’t crying for his youth. He is crying for the little boy locked inside himself. The boy that he lost long ago. The little boy wakes up. After years of sleeping and starvation, he looks out through the old man’s eyes. He sees the playground. He sees the world of opportunity that was stripped from him. They both know it is too late.
Consciousness can be harnessed in its most available and substantial form within it’s early stages of its development. It is at this point where the inner child is most active and, in turn, where a consciousness itself retains the most power. The experiments that Megacorp conducted on Hansel Grendel played into this very point. They extracted Hansel’s consciousness into the Honey Nest before his predestined life of humane boredom had begun. The consciousness that lives within the Honey Nest is now free from human disregard. There’s no knowing exactly what a consciousness unbound from the human body could do, or what it could evolve into. I suspect Megacorp are continuing to extract consciousness from other children. I suspect, the power held within the Honey Nest is growing day by day. I suspect, we need to do something before that. Before it’s too late.