Examining Bliss

Something was off in the central network. The normal ticks and pulses that regulated the soup network, and other extreme functions were operating as expected. It was the constant flux of pulses from one side to the other that had me flummoxed. I kept watching this pattern develop outside of the normal symbolic processing centers, and began to realize that it was, itself, an evolving pattern.

Pulses reached out from other areas of the central network that had not yet been sown with pingers. It was here that concepts larger than the entire communication and symbolic processing systems grew, evolved and roamed within the central network, making their presence known, and drawing up information. The patterns moved with internal purpose, rolling and roiling at times, calm and whispery at others.

While it appeared that there were central areas of pattern activity, there was no such pattern that did not interact with the other patterns. Everything interlinked, but not all at the same moment in time. I suppose this kept the total bandwidth in check, as these background patterns could easily overwhelm the symbolic processors if they ever lit to full. The difference that I had detected was a feedback loop, and it appeared that then entire group of patterns was being fed to iteself. This was a process that could easily run wayward and exceed all limits on bandwidth.