The Ineffible Quality

I kept checking in on the pervasive pattern of patterns, which I discovered did not interact with random time in the same way as the symbolic processing region. While it seemed that there was a completely random quality to the patterns that exploded in response to stimulus, I started a scan sequence to capture a stimulus event and follow it back to where it came from. I even deployed a few of the "un's" as temporary pingers to alert me of incoming stimuli once I had located a main pathway.

It was not a long wait before I was tapped by a pinger. Using a hyperchannel, the advance warning let me set up a broad spectrum scan, and I focused in on the detection frequency that had triggered the pinger. I spotted the rise at the selected frequency and then spread the spectrum widely. Following what I though was the complete pulse was a payload that was directed toward the processing centers that usually handled the photon detectors.

With the photon detectors in their dormant state, I had not scanned the signal processing section of the central network as there seemed to be nothing for that well-used section to handle. Random time had been running for some time, and realized that I was observing the transfer of a recalled photon sequence as it activated a cascade of activity that I would have characterized as noise. It only looked like noise from distance. Examination revealed that it was a cacophony of simultaneous signals, with a slight spread to the spectrum.