HFQ Official Snippet #22

Hildum wrote:

AirTech wrote:Or the other alternative is that the NEAT had a recording function (think implanted smart phone with internet access (both up-link and down-link, possibly effective telepathy between members of the same network, with a possible range limit (WiFi? (Merlin's low speed data link's original purpose?))) and he saw something that someone didn't want seen - ever. This may have prompted someone to want the his NEAT permanently erased as soon as they had the required access to achieve it without anyone querying their decision. I think the relation between Chihiro and Schuler may have a direct bearing on this. Probing Kohdy's NEAT may be on Merlin's agenda.

There would be little reason for the NEAT receptors to have a separate memory function beyond simple buffering. After all, the receptors are directly connected to a large memory system!

AirTech wrote:

Hildum wrote:Or the other alternative is that the NEAT had a recording function (think implanted smart phone with internet access (both up-link and down-link, possibly effective telepathy between members of the same network, with a possible range limit (WiFi? (Merlin's low speed data link's original purpose?))) and he saw something that someone didn't want seen - ever. This may have prompted someone to want the his NEAT permanently erased as soon as they had the required access to achieve it without anyone querying their decision. I think the relation between Chihiro and Schuler may have a direct bearing on this. Probing Kohdy's NEAT may be on Merlin's agenda

There would be little reason for the NEAT receptors to have a separate memory function beyond simple buffering. After all, the receptors are directly connected to a large memory system!

Buffering is common in high load systems, and offline storage is useful for many things. If you know that your system may be out of range of a network, and space is a big place, having your own library available would be useful(for example the repair manual for your spacecraft shouldn't depend on its systems being operational). Online storage is inherently far more easily hacked and less secure than offline storage. (Assume any thing you put online is accessible to NSA, FSB, Mosad, ASIO, GCHQ or the intelligence agency of your choice or the company who owns your file server or all of the above). Memory is cheap now, a terabyte of solid state storage is a couple of hundred dollars, in four hundred years who knows?
Another use would be as a black box recorder. If you find a dead body the last few days of their life would be most illuminating to the investigating officer.

mhicks wrote:

AirTech wrote:*quote="Hildum"*
Or the other alternative is that the NEAT had a recording function (think implanted smart phone with internet access (both up-link and down-link, possibly effective telepathy between members of the same network, with a possible range limit (WiFi? (Merlin's low speed data link's original purpose?))) and he saw something that someone didn't want seen - ever. This may have prompted someone to want the his NEAT permanently erased as soon as they had the required access to achieve it without anyone querying their decision. I think the relation between Chihiro and Schuler may have a direct bearing on this. Probing Kohdy's NEAT may be on Merlin's agenda

There would be little reason for the NEAT receptors to have a separate memory function beyond simple buffering. After all, the receptors are directly connected to a large memory system!

Buffering is common in high load systems, and offline storage is useful for many things. If you know that your system may be out of range of a network, and space is a big place, having your own library available would be useful(for example the repair manual for your spacecraft shouldn't depend on its systems being operational). Online storage is inherently far more easily hacked and less secure than offline storage. (Assume any thing you put online is accessible to NSA, FSB, Mosad, ASIO, GCHQ or the intelligence agency of your choice or the company who owns your file server or all of the above). Memory is cheap now, a terabyte of solid state storage is a couple of hundred dollars, in four hundred years who knows?
Another use would be as a black box recorder. If you find a dead body the last few days of their life would be most illuminating to the investigating officer.

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could a NEAT be used on Cody and see what happened to him? Or do you think the Temple took it off him before they returned the body. And if it could be used to get the memories from Cody, couldn't they use a NEAT on any other ADAM or EVE that was left behind?

runsforcelery wrote:
“My name is Cody Cortazar,” it began, “and I am an Adam, honored far beyond any mortal man might have deserved to stand beside the Angels and Archangels themselves against the forces of Darkness.”

It's quite likely the NEAT's break down after death, NTM the loss of power etc, how long is something only RFC knows, but the potential advantage in finding out what happened might overcome Nynian's probable opposition.

Whether RFC has included this possibility in HFQ or later will be another shoe waiting to drop if it takes Nahrmahn and OWL awhile to patch it back together.

L

BobG wrote:lyonheart wrote:

It's quite likely the NEAT's break down after death, NTM the loss of power etc, how long is something only RFC knows, but the potential advantage in finding out what happened might overcome Nynian's probable opposition.

Whether RFC has included this possibility in HFQ or later will be another shoe waiting to drop if it takes Nahrmahn and OWL awhile to patch it back together.

L

Hi, Lyonheart

I've always thought that the interface was biological in nature, some sort of additional attachment to synapses that allows for scanning. Sort of like the serial diagnostic bus that many computer chips have for scanning through all the important buffers and latches on the chip.

Given the massive amount of parallelism and data in the brain, a serial bus wouldn't do. And I have no idea if the bus is a biological/cellular construct or something built by nanotech, and for the latter if it is a carbon based (buckytubes?) or metallic (extracted from trace metals or food coloring agents in one's diet).

I have wondered if there was a way to "grow" the network in an adult, or if you don't get it early in life, then you can never have it.

But I've been wrong before. In a recent post, for example.

-- Bob G

AncientMariner wrote:I don't think anyone's discussed this yet. I find it interesting the Cody's last name is Cortazar, which I'm pretty sure is a Spanish name. It cannot be a coincidence that sections of his diary are written in Spanish! This makes me wonder, if all the Adams and Eves had their memories wiped, including their mother languages, how did Cody regain his?

evilauthor wrote:

AncientMariner wrote:I don't think anyone's discussed this yet. I find it interesting the Cody's last name is Cortazar, which I'm pretty sure is a Spanish name. It cannot be a coincidence that sections of his diary are written in Spanish! This makes me wonder, if all the Adams and Eves had their memories wiped, including their mother languages, how did Cody regain his?

Reread the end of this snippet again. Cody mentions waking up in a sickbay with his head brimming with new knowledge. So much knowledge in fact that his previous life on Safehold had become distant to him, like a dream.

Not hard to imagine that Spanish might be among the knowledge the "Archangels' servitors" had downloaded into his head.

evilauthor wrote:

AncientMariner wrote:I don't think anyone's discussed this yet. I find it interesting the Cody's last name is Cortazar, which I'm pretty sure is a Spanish name. It cannot be a coincidence that sections of his diary are written in Spanish! This makes me wonder, if all the Adams and Eves had their memories wiped, including their mother languages, how did Cody regain his?

Reread the end of this snippet again. Cody mentions waking up in a sickbay with his head brimming with new knowledge. So much knowledge in fact that his previous life on Safehold had become distant to him, like a dream.

Not hard to imagine that Spanish might be among the knowledge the "Archangels' servitors" had downloaded into his head.

Peter2 wrote:Agreed. But why? Could it be to allow the archangels' favoured servitors to communicate quickly and easily with each other and their bosses without the ordinary Adams and Eves understanding what they are talking about? If not, what other reasons are likely?

Another possibility could be the partial failure of the mental reprogramming, because of either a glitch in the procedure, or some mental quirk peculiar to Cody.