More than a Memory

With the number of tokens that were dedicated to communication and the patterns that were composed of these tokens, it could be said that the communication tokens were also the components by which larger ideas and constructs were built. Indeed, there were a great number of com-tokens that had been squeezed into the double bubble which emitted an occasional pulse from it's nearby position.

Here on the edge, however, we were far from the com-token store, and it was clear that there were functional blocks here that were independent of communication. In fact, there were several com-tokens being wired up to the pattern that was being added to. Most of the structure elements that were being added were not, in and of themselves, com-tokens, but they would definitely have the ability to produce a stream of them should the need arise. The cross linking into the com-token pools continued until it was uncanny. Stimulation of this construction zone would light up the central network like rapid-fire plasma bursts.

Study of the linkage exposed the fact that the links being laid down are were largely one-way. The mechanism for activating this structure was the central network itself, so this was not a communications processing structure, inputs were not being connected directly. Rather, this looked a bit more assertive, with the ability to spool detailed com-tokens together. In a way, this looked like a more complex version of one of my data stores, with the internal sequential links having the same structure as many of the com-token links that I had recorded as they were queued.