Overloaded Symbol

As the bubble bounced through the central network, pingers clicked and twittered as I started to examine the interconnection of the zones and the patterns that were activated by the bubble. One particular entry had multiple paths that accessed it, and I was somewhat confused. While I understood that communication symbols were represented by a sequence of basic symbols, and that these symbols are sometimes referred to as "letters," there were some much larger meta patterns that were also linked to the same communication symbol.

Diving into the new meta patterns in the network, it was quickly discovered that "Letter" was a symbol that represented an object used for communication. One of the learned activities that the central network performed was the production of optical patterns. The network made painstakingly detailed pulse trains that were sent to the long branch points as feedback from the photon detectors helped to decide and guide the control pulses.

Meta patterns that were now linked with the "Letter" version of the "letter" token, were in fact, the bottled and recalled content that was originally brought in via the photon detectors and the processing of multi-symbol tokens. The patterns were deeply emblazoned, and there was evidence that the photon detectors had processed the same input numerous times. I even found the leftover remnants for a guiding session in which one of these communication objects was processed and used to guide the production of a new identical copy. All in all there were not quite four doublings of this occurrence.