A Glimpse of Concept

It was one thing to have a sequence of symbols popping off in the electron network. It was yet again another to have sets of simple symbols collate themselves into a set of choices including one for the unknown. Even with this rapid lookup and correlation offered by the electron network, it was still another thing entirely to relate these building blocks with the other more massive patterns that occupied the core of my attention.

Here in the central network, I had been experiencing uneasy feelings and those of upheaval. There were patterns here that were far more powerful than any of the symbolic patterns could hold. A great deal of time was spent pushing the edges of these gigantic clouds through various filters and processing portions of the central network in a way that sometimes generated floods of tokens and symbols in the electron network.

At other times, these larger patterns were themselves, components in an even larger overlay of structure. Here was a set of interconnections so deep an intertwined that it would be nearly impossible to infiltrate such a web with pingers and interpreters. That really was not necessary, since these giant whorls of energy and concept were themselves, gigantic symbols in and of themselves. In a way, the flowing and workings with these symbols was eerily similar to some of the processing that we did in the middle and upper layers of our electron network.