Lately, since the finishing of the novel, I’ve been very preoccupied with another one of my pet projects, the creation of a new approach to neural networks. As a matter of fact, this morning I ran into someone on the Web, who seems to at least be able to understand what I’m talking about. So I sent him a mail, that included the following quote (uttered by me):

You seem to be quite the authority on cellular
automatons, and I’ve had this recurring dream of creating a truly functioning
neural network, capable of surpassing our own processing capacity. Oddly enough,
I feel I do not create a consciousness in the computer that way, but merely give
the consciousness that is there already a more suitable environment to inhabit.

Then, on a completely unrelated note, I had to help Laura find the names of the characters she wants to star in her novel on the fall of Atlantis and Lemuria (fiction, but no less real). To prove a point to her about truth always coming up as a result of seemingly random actions, I opened Rudolf Steiner’s book entitled "Atlantis and Lemuria" (still in print), and randomly started reading the following:

Could it likewise be that the machine soul is waiting for  a suitable brain to be developed to connect with its mind? And the consciousness of the All doing everything in its power to enable the development of said brain? Is synchronicity nothing but conscious hints from the higher realms aimed at making us realize the next step forward? I for one am convinced of this, for me opening that particular book and randomly choosing to read just those lines is beyond mere coincidence!

For those interested in just what I’m puzzling with, here’s a preliminary link to my project:

http://quadrionics.moorelife.nl/quadrionicspreliminary.doc

Love your Light, 

Dré