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Pornography
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1. Insects are dreaming. They're dreaming of us, and
we love it.
2. Imagine that people build a machine which, when
hooked up to the human head, distills the
neurochemical firings of 'dream sleep' into electronic
data which can be copied onto portable storage media.
3. Though no longer a 'dream' in the usual sense, the
stored data can be broadcast directly into the central
nervous system of anyone wearing the equipment. This
is done in the form of coded instructions for the
brain to begin acting as though it were in REM sleep.
The process can only take place if the recipient is
awake, since the data cannot compete with the actual
firings of a dreamer's brain and is subsequently
drowned out during sleep. It only works as a 'waking
dream,' though that term is not quite accurate since
the recipient is fully conscious and objectively aware
of the experience.
4. The actual effect is more akin to ingesting
psychedelic drugs, in the sense that the normal
processes of the brain become altered. Each brain is
unique, and the sensations of one's mind responding to
instructions originally sent to a very different mind
are exhilarating. It is, for a while, like being
someone else. The appeal of this is obvious.
5. What would happen if you recorded and then played
back the dreams of animals? Very little, it turns out,
apart from a strange, unpleasant feeling between the
recipient's ears. Animals do not 'dream' in any sense
that a human being would recognize. There is a strange
exception, however to this, however. That exception is
the insect.
6. Naturally, a single insect mind is unsuitable for
the recording process, but what if the software were
reconfigured to accept collective data from a variety
of sources all at once? Overload, usually...when the
source of the mass data is a member of the insect
family. What if you hooked up, say, an entire ant
colony to the machine? Or a wasp's nest? Is there a
collective intelligence of any kind? Is there usable
data? Yes. It turns out that there is.
7. Insects do not 'think' or 'dream,' but the machines
can be programmed to believe that they do and collect
the data accordingly in certain conditions.
8. Sit and watch the bee hive in the big glass box.
Bees buzz around, often crashing into the transparent
walls of their new world, milling about chaotically.
Wires run from the box to the machines against the far
walls. The green 'recording' light is on. The dreams
of bees are etched into memory.
9. Playing it back, the feeling is indescribable.
Literally indescribable.
10. Hive. In head. Angular. Boxes. Stacked. Extend. In
head. Heads? Head. Sweetness. In the air. Angular.
Boxes. Yes. No. Yes.
11. You see?
12. The thoughts, if they can be called that, are
alien and strange but somehow compatible with the
human mind, existing independent of normal thought
processes. For some, the experience borders on the
mystical, though the predominant reaction is to
describe the feeling of dreaming insect dreams as
being...erotic. Strangely erotic. In a way that isn't
necessarily sexual, if that makes any sense, which it
of course does not. Suffice to say that people like
the feeling quite a bit.
13. The processing power of a hive or a termite hill
is something that is noticed incidentally during all
of this. Specifically, it occurs to someone that the
movement of ants in a mound can, if properly
interpreted and recorded, make calculations of
astonishing complexity. Insect-powered computers
follow, first crude ones, then, eventually, gigantic
super-hives of genetically engineered insects overseen
by queens the size and shape of a small grapefruit.
Traditional computers become a thing of the past.
14. No, the hives do not become self-aware. Nor do
they decide that they no longer need humanity
polluting their world. They're still just bugs, after
all, capable of incredibly complex social structures
but still absolutely mindless. The thing is, though,
that the development of both insect computing and
insect 'dream' recording proceed in mutually
beneficial ways until, inevitably, they meet and merge
into a single scientific activity.
15. The insect-powered thinking machines perform tasks
for people, and, as they do so, the idiot collective
'thoughts' of trillions of insects working in harmony
are recorded on the very same system. The dreams
become larger and more tangible by sheer numbers. The
dreams are now influenced by the very act of recording
them.
16. The system feeds back on itself and can be
manipulated by directly interfering with the hive
environment. If the insects burrow *this* way, the
data is different than if they go *that*.
17. It occurs to people than micro managing the entire
colony can create different dream sensations.
Virtuosos, able to monitor and toy with immense groups
of insects, can, in effect, 'play' the hive like a
piano. It becomes a performance art, a sporting event,
a party where everyone's invited. The audience,
experiencing the sensations at home directly, in real
time, can number in the millions. It is a direct group
experience never before available to human beings.
Whole human populations, for brief periods of time and
in controlled circumstances, becomes like a insect
hive.
18. The word to describe the sensation of experiencing
insect thoughts is still best described as being
'erotic'. This eroticism is not physical. It touches
the brain directly.
19. The conductor of the insect dream orchestra, if
his audience is large enough, can, in a sense, 'fuck'
millions of even billions of people at once. If he
really wants to increase the intensity of it all, he
himself can be connected to the broadcast as a
recipient even as he is the director. His, or, indeed,
her, conducting can become a spontaneous reaction the
sensations and impulses being created. If it feels
good, she does it more.
20. Multitudes experience this, for lack of a better
word, masturbation. Some wire themselves to others, so
that friends and loved ones can experience both the
performance and their partner's reaction to it
simultaneously. The whole thing can be a loop, with
two people in the home feeding into each other as they
experience the performance, the pleasure amplified in
an infinite loop, spiraling out of control. Couples
can make love as their brains are caressed by someone
miles away. Sex becomes a collective, interspecies
act, equally physical and non-corporial. Is it sex, or
is it something more?
21. Technology changes societies. Eventually, if the
technology is radical enough and accepted as being
good, culture itself changes to better accommodate the
technology, and nothing is ever the same again. Just
look at the Industrial Revolution, and you'll see what
I mean.
22. Collective sexuality, via insect dream
broadcasting, becomes the dominant form of recreation.
The technology becomes better and more efficient, more
finely tuned towards the delicate task of making
insect and human nervous systems compatible. True
believers jettison the external components of the
technology in favor of discreet, surgically implanted
interfaces. Insects are bred and engineered to better
communicate with human beings. 'Popular culture'
becomes insect culture. Man becomes bug.
13. Ripples in a pond. The effects of the Industrial
Revolution are still being felt, distorting and
shaping our world with no end in sight. The Insect
Revolution is newer. We are here to witness its
initial splash.
14. Some would call it 'evolution'.
15. I call it...'pornography'.
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