Have you ever thought about...

[Pekka]

duke, that's true. Thanks for the correction..

You know about music and time, when we here the echo, what if the echo was there first and the original source was after the echo. But the echo doesn't know it's being labeled as echo, so would we change their names with each other, or just keep using the same words but change the meaning?

[duke o' york]

Aha! Semantics!
Echo is the sound of reflected noise, by definition.
Of course, the definition is not based on anything whatsoever, it's merely the label we give to something. So the original noise could well be labelled echo, as you suggest, and then the reflection (echo) can equally be named noise. It doesn't affect what they are in any terms whatsoever, just our naming of them.

[Pekka]

right, but if they had feelings, I wonder if they would mind because the word echo clearly points to something that came later, originating from original something.

If this was false, it would be bad for echo. They would get pissed off.

This was, IF they had feelings. But why do we have to think they must have feeligns in order to DO THE RIGHT THING?

It's not all FACTS but just something to consider ... I think we at least need to investigate this more. Maybe EU could fund it.

[duke o' york]

Apply for funding! You'll probably get it.

[Pekka]

Yes but the title has to be better than "do the sounds have feelings?"

[duke o' york]

How's about: "Emotional responses through horizontal particle wave fields"?

That would at least confuse them into thinking you were doing the tests on humans., and perhaps guarantee you funding. You might have to make the outline a bit sketchy though, so as not to give the game away.

[Pekka]

Hey that title is actually very cool It does seem legit and if you really think about it and read it, it doesn't give it way too much.. sounds legit

Of course we would have to establish some kind of connection, communication with the sounds.. how do we do that, that's the first mission. Establish the connection with the sounds. I feel this might take at least a year, since we humans are not equipped to recieve their communication so we need to learn this first.

[Colonâ„¢]

Call it "A Study on the Sustainability of the Performance of Reverse Sonic Impulses on Cognitive Crop Digestments"

The "crop" in the title is for CAP funding.

[duke o' york]

Originally posted by Pekka
Hey that title is actually very cool It does seem legit and if you really think about it and read it, it doesn't give it way too much.. sounds legit

That's why I volunteered to write press releases/advertising bumpf for the polycon.

Even though I can't attend

[Pekka]

ahh so much nice suggestions!

Maybe we should do them both, if the other one fails.

And when the first study is done and published, maybe we can 'make sure' and do it again with the other title? There's no funding like double funding!

[duke o' york]

You must know how the EU works really well Pekka.

[Pekka]

yes and that's why we must destroy it.

Anyway, I'm getting sleepy. I think I'll put on some southparks and fall asleep. I find this a nice way to go into the dreamland, or what I call The Second Reality, and it's fun because you get to do those tired laughs, when your eyes go open and shut, open and shut,, getting heavy.. then there's outrageously hilarious joke and you go tired laugh and it's funny and then you just fall asleep.. I like to go asleep with the last thing done is laugh.

I feel laugh is more powerful than love. Because laugh exists, love doesn't. But I WILL BE EMBASSADOR! So many things to do! All these projects with EU funding.. all these things!

It's great to know they're already done since we're going backwards.