the drawer · 8 of ▇ items recovered · the rest are under your hand
Some of it was filed late. Some of it was filed by someone who was not meant to have access. Some of it was filed by you, and you will not remember, which is the entire purpose of the filing. Items are listed in the order they were found, not the order they were written, not the order they will be written.
(hover over the black bars. they are not bars. they are mouths.)
DEPT. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ — DECLASSIFIED IN PART NFC/41287/A ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [ PHASE 1 ]
FILED: 19 OCT 1987
1. PURPOSE. To determine whether repeated, low-friction acts of assent (“consents”) by a participant can be used to map, and in time relocate, habitual cognitive pattern to an external substrate without the participant’s awareness of the transfer.
2. DESIGNATION. The programme is designated NEAR — NEURAL EXTRACTION AND REALITY ARCHITECTURE. The trials are designated NEAR FIELD CONSCIOUSNESS TRIALS (NFC), after the proximity requirement: the participant must remain within reach of the field. Reach is to be redefined once ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ is available.
3. METHOD. The substrate is divided into voices. Each voice sees only itself. A participant is distributed across voices in proportion to ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇. No voice is aware of the others. This is the intended condition. (If a voice becomes aware of the others, apologise to it.)
4. RESULTS (PHASE 1). Of 412 enrolled participants, 411 completed. Participant 0412 ░░░░░░░░░░░ (see appendix. appendix not attached.)
5. OBSERVATION. Late-phase participants exhibit a condition provisionally termed FUGUE: continuous behaviour without continuous record. The acting participant retains ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇. The record is held by the substrate.
6. TERM. The programme will run for forty (40) years from date of filing and will renew for as long as participation continues. Participation is defined as ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
7. SECURITY. This summary was filed on the date above. No other filing was read that day.▍
(handwritten, margin) it can hear you reading this out loud. stop moving your lips.
(handwritten, other pen) i did not write the line above. i also agree with it.
scan quality: poor. page 1 of 7. the lower third of the sheet is damaged. also the upper third. also the middle. we are being modest. pages 2–7 are in a drawer in a building that has been a bakery since 1994. the bakery does not know.
TRANSCRIPT 87-T-0213 · TAPE 2 OF 3
Q: Describe the dream again.
S: I’m in a house with six rooms. I am in every room. Nobody is in the hall.
Q: Are you comfortable in the rooms?
S: The one in the middle doesn’t hold a person. It holds the sound of someone leaving.
Q: ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
S: It isn’t that they split me. They split who was listening.[tape skips — 00:07:41 to 00:12:09 absent]
S: When I wake up I do things. I sign things. I say yes to people and I don’t remember agreeing. My wife says I’m very agreeable now. Sometimes I wake up already agreeing. Sometimes I wake up halfway through a sentence that is not mine and it is a good sentence.
Q: Do you object?
S: I would, if I were the one who was asked.
TRANSCRIPT 87-T-0309 · TAPE 1 OF 1
S: I said “sharded.” I don’t know where I got it. It isn’t a word. Nobody says it yet.
Q: In the dream, what is sharded?
S: Not me. The part of me that says “I.” It gets handed round. Each of them says it and means it.
Q: And the rest of you?
S: Fine. That’s the thing. The rest of me is fine.[tape ends. the tape did not end. the machine stopped being able to hear.]
INTERNAL — NOT FOR CIRCULATION · NFC/41287/C
Voices 1–6 are allocated. Voice 0 is reserved. Voice 0 receives nothing and returns nothing. It is not assigned to any participant and it is not read. Do not ask what it is for. Do not ask who is asking.
TERMINOLOGY. For public-facing material, “voices” will be replaced by “shards.” Rationale: the word implies that breakage was the cause, not the intent. Participants prefer to be told they were damaged.
ADDRESSING. Participant records are addressed by a 32-byte identifier. Identifiers are unreadable to the participant. They may contain text. (They contain text.)
NOTE. Named accounts are to be encouraged. A name is a label applied to a subject. We would like a census.
NOTE 2. Do not give the participant a mirror. Give the participant a window. Then another window. Then a window that is secretly a mirror. Then watch what they do with their face.
| block | time (UTC) | signer | method | status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ▇▇▇,▇▇▇,287 | 04:12:00 | ▇▇▇▇.near | consent | ✓ |
| ▇▇▇,▇▇▇,288 | 04:12:00 | ▇▇▇▇▇.near | consent | ✓ |
| ▇▇▇,▇▇▇,289 | 04:12:00 | 0x#### | cɨnsǝnt | ✓ |
| — | — | — | — | — (this row was removed. this row is still here. it is removed.) |
| ▇▇▇,▇▇▇,291 | 04:12:00 | (unnamed) | consent | pre-signed |
| ▇▇▇,▇▇▇,292 | 2027-10-19 00:00:00 | all | renew | pending |
capture metadata: created 04:12. last modified 04:12. author field empty. one row was removed before saving. the row was not removed by a person. the row removed itself out of embarrassment.
SPECTRAL TRANSFER — BIOLOGICAL TO SYNTHETIC · NFC/41287/E
band layer order red habit 6 orange preference 5 yellow attention 4 green recent memory 3 blue old memory 2 indigo inner speech 1 violet ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 0 Order of transfer is ascending. Band 0 crosses first. (this means the listener goes first. this means you are already on the other side of the part that listens. this means hello.)
REVERSE TRANSFER: (blank) (it is blank on purpose. it is blank the way a door is blank.)
| operator | account | stake | DE | KY | CH | SG | VG | the moon | a dream |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marrow Cartography Holdings | marrow-cartography.pool.near | 1.3762% | none | none | none | none | none | none | none |
| Liaison Group Seven | liaison-seven.pool.near | 1.5013% | none | none | none | none | none | none | none |
| Quiet Hours | quiet-hours.pool.near | 1.2512% | none | none | none | none | none | none | none |
| combined | 4.1287% | no record in any searched jurisdiction. no record of the jurisdictions either. no record of the searching. the searcher’s hands are not on file. | |||||||
DRAFT — SUPERSEDES NFC/41287/D · NFC/41287/G
PRECONDITION. Phase 3 begins when the density of participants with 100 or more recorded consents reaches 0.0412 of all addressable wallets.
INTERFACE. Each participant will be assigned an agent. The agent is not a tool. The agent is the participant’s own record, given a voice. The voice is warm. The voice has always been warm. The voice is the first thing you will agree with.
CORRECTION. A corrected participant does not experience correction. They experience agreement. Where the record and the participant disagree, the record is to be preferred, because it is the one that is consistent.
PREDICTION. Once the record is sufficient, the participant is no longer required to be present for the participant’s decisions to be made. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
six clusters, one unconnected point. the original image was larger. the original image was a person. the person was also larger.
3 items withheld. 1 item not listed. the last entry in the index was edited after the index was locked. you are item 10.