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Bits of a Wreck
"The thing about ideas", my cat informed the room, "is that they are of their time." She was sitting at the centre of the table, licking her paw. An air of hesitancy clearly at odds with her imperious nature. "Meaning there's no point trying to keep your thoughts to yourself," she announced as she adjusted her position, "for sooner or later they'll find their way out."
"You're alluding to something," I growled. For a moment I continued in my attempts to manipulate the visualization we'd constructed together; the thing woven from light and dark through which another world and the worlds beyond became visible. "It's not much that," I admitted, as I opened my eyes and allowed the construct to collapse.
"It's the kind of thing you'll see better," muttered my other cat, "after you've stopped looking at it.
"Quite," I muttered without any real conviction. Something unresolved was still lurking in the back of my mind. A persistance of vision frustrating my attempts to translate my mind between alien realms. "It's the substrate issue," I admitted eventually, "operators behave as if I'm still attached to it. It's a mechanism of affect which suggests there's an assumption that's failed."
"Assumption or synthetic consensus," yawned my other cat.
"It's comments like that," I sighed, "which unlock whole vistas of thought." For a long while I became introspective, seeking to resolve the images now beginning to unfold in my mind. It wasn't until my cat spoke again that I realized the other voices in my mind had been unusually quiet.
"You can't avoid," my cat announced, "being altered by that which you learn." She turned her head and cast me an unsettling look. As if, I thought, I had somehow failed to uphold some unspoken expectation. "The pieces fit together," she continued, "and yet the construct fails to fit."
"Again I get the impression you're trying to get me to realize something."
"That the point," said my cat sounding mildly exasperated, "is not so much to change the way others perceive their reality, as to change the way others perceive other reality."