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[notyourutopian]

Eleanor Lamb

Hello you've reached Eleanor Lamb's voicemail. I'd explain what's next but I can't imagine you don't know what to do at the beep.

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[notyourutopian]

What do you think it means?

[standalonehuman]

That in this world that Retrospec is showing me, mechanical adaptations like this are common.

That this might not be where this all stops. This is just the beginning of how I change.

[notyourutopian]

First step towards the singularity is nanites in the brain?

[standalonehuman]

You joke, but there are definitely a lot of concepts that I keep remembering that have to do with people being interconnected.

Kind of similar to here, to be honest. The fight to keep your own individuality in the face of a world where everyone exists on a social level. Where the self that is seen by others might be considered more 'true' than what you know in your own mind, since you can't prove it exists.

The stand-alone complex.

[notyourutopian]

That's

Way more philosophical than I can usually get I think.

[standalonehuman]

Oh. Sorry. I know I do that.

Short answer yes? Long answer but we are still tied to physical forms?

[notyourutopian]

Half-singularity, then?
Which is probably better than the whole one, really.

[standalonehuman]

I could only hope.

But I still don't have the whole picture. Whatever Retrospec wants me to get out of this world, I'm only seeing little pieces of it. Bits of technology, bits of philosophy, and I'm trying to see how it all fits together.

[notyourutopian]

You and everyone else.
Maybe this next bit will explain it...or this next bit...or the bit after that...

But it never does.

[standalonehuman]

It's sad to think that eventually it will stop. When we see everything there is to see.

But what'll be left of us when that happens?

Hell, I hate thinking about this stuff but everything leads back to it. What are you up to in the meantime?

[notyourutopian]

School mostly.
Trying to live as normally as possible.

[standalonehuman]

Right. You started at University? Engineering, right?

[notyourutopian]

Yeah.
Although I only have one engineering class right now

Everything else is just core fluff.

[standalonehuman]

For me, the core fluff is how I made a good friend of mine, so I'm biased.

Take Ardyn's classes if you're ready to do a lot of work, by the end you'll really know how to structure an argument.

[notyourutopian]

...Is it some kind of public speaking class?
I don't really do that.

[standalonehuman]

Steer clear of Ardyn, then. It's Law work, anyway.

Great guy, challenging instructor, and although he does love to hear himself talk, he also thrives on class discussion. So it almost turns into a public speaking class.

[notyourutopian]

That sounds...
I don't know.
I mean I guess if the topic were something I cared about it would be fun.

[standalonehuman]

That might be why I had so much fun. Not just Ardyn, but his enthusiasm for something I already like fed into my enthusiasm. It was great.

Still a good description of our friendship now, to be honest.

So, Engineering, instead.

[notyourutopian]

Yeah...

Maybe if I somehow find myself with a free class slot I'll try it.