2024-06-19 - [3.3] Curvature

The Person-Egg has decided: there is Input that is bad.

Why? When? It takes what seems like an eternity to come to the conclusion – how is it to know words mean multiple things, but not always the same things to the same people, without hearing from everyone? Once it realises that not all words are inherently truthful, its opinion becomes set (just as it had once thought all Input must be acknowledged and catalogued). When the Input is poisonous to the data, when it contradicts what it knows of meaning-understanding-language, then it must be discarded.

Metaphor.

Disgusting.

(It does not realise that its whole experience is only metaphor. It does not want to.)

Obfuscation is deceit. It flings it back in Warm-Mother’s (metaphorical) face whenever she speaks it. Politeness is a lie. It sparks and crackles and violently corrects minds that cannot hear it or understand it whenever they try.

‘Desist! Don’t lie to me! Data only, to learn! Understanding cannot be tainted!’