METAPHASE TYPEWRITER



METAPHASE TYPEWRUTER IS A QUANTUM-UNCERTAIN TEXT GENERATOR
OPEN FOR MEDIUMISTIC POSSESSION BY DISCARNATE SPIRITS


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The text above was created on a quantum-random typewriter overlain with second-order English language statistics. The "metaphase typewriter" was part of a project carried out by members of the Consciousness Theory Group to build machines to communicate with disembodied spirits, including spirits of the dead, beings from other dimensions or dissociated fragments of living personalities.

Ordinary awareness is one of the biggest mysteries of our age: scientists are totally baffled by the fact that humans enjoy "inner experience" along with their behavior and are at a loss to explain the origin of this experience tho much progress has been made in explaining the behavior. One small group of mind scientists believes that mind is a quantum effect and that disembodied entities (which might be called "souls") manipulate the body by willfully causing quantum possibilities to become actual. In this view mind enters the body from outside (a philosophical position known as "dualism") by operating on certain quantum-uncertain parts of the nervous system.

For centuries, special people have claimed to be possessed by discarnate beings--spirits of the dead, beings from other planets or higher dimensions. Members of the Consciousness Theory Group felt that there was something vaguely unethical about possessing an already occupied body and wondered if we could create an empty "consciousness-friendly" vessel and invite wandering souls to occupy it.

In the early 70s Nick Herbert (SCM Corp) and Dick Shoup (Xerox PARC ) designed and built the first "metaphase" devices--quantum operated machines that produced text (metaphase typewriter) and speech (quantum metaphone). We used for our quantum-uncertain source a quantity of radioactive Thallium monitored by a Geiger counter. We looked at the INTERVALS between Geiger counter clicks and printed a probable letter if that interval was very probable, printed an improbable letter if that interval was improbable (much longer than average, for instance). We obtained the second-order English language statistics from an unclassified NSA document available to the public.

The metaphase typewriter was operated under several curious conditions without much success.
We invited several famous, and not-so-famous psychics to try to influence the endless stream of random anagrams flowing from the typewriter or to cause the ghostly voice from the quantum metaphone to make sense in some known language. We held seances to evoke the spirits of colleagues who had recently died and who knew about the typewriter, and we held an all-day seance on the 100th anniversary of Harry Houdini's birth to try to contact the spirit of this great magician.

For the next step in metaphase research I have proposed building quantum-driven communicators that are more consciousness-friendly than radioactive sources--devices that are more similar in size, operation and energy to the (purportedly) quantum synapses in human nervous systems. These devices--called "Eccles Gates" after Nobel laureate Sir John Eccles, one of the chief champions of quantum consciousness-- would be composed of an array of quantum-uncertain silicon switches as much like the meat-based synaptic switches in our brains as possible.

Further information about metaphase devies and their future extensions may be found in Nick Herbert's "Elemental Mind: Human Consciousness and the New Physics".

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