🦋 Dream Blogging: Intelligent Design
This one has some potential! Many strands of weirdness from my own life and from the books I'm reading come together to bring us last night's dream:
 A dwarf modelled on Gimli is in charge of the divine source-code control system, which is (bizarrely IMO) quite similar to ClearCase1. A fix is in place which will allow people to "survive floods" -- as I understand it, Noah's flood is the intended meaning here; there is also a quick image of an infant being baptized. But because of a miscommunication, the dwarf releases this patch to production2 reality with code from an improper branch; people start dying in floods right and left, and the dwarf is dying of shame, possibly suicidal. We leave the dwarf and follow a different coder, who is figuring out what went wrong -- turns out different meanings of "flood" were getting mixed up. The flood addressed by the patch was not one of water but a sensory flood -- the modified code allows people to see Dust, which is overloading their cerebral cortices and causing them to stop functioning. Some very pleasant dream-images around here, and I soon woke up.
 1 One advantage to a ClearCase-like system, it would allow for the designers to model an HDM sort of branching multiplicity of universes.
2 There was no mention in the dream of a test platform, but this is of course an interesting question -- could our reality be a test platform for new designs and bug fixes?
posted morning of Monday, April 13th, 2009
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your dwarf was Ptah!
posted morning of April 13th, 2009 by badger
Oh cool -- you mean this guy? I'm pretty much completely ignorant of Egyptian mythology.
posted morning of April 13th, 2009 by Jeremy
I have an interesting dream theory: if Person A is in my dream, then they are having the same dream. Even when people have insisted that that is not the case, I still cling steadfastly to that credo.
/Tag that as How To Misread Borges
posted evening of April 14th, 2009 by paledave
/Tag that as How To Misread Borges
Ah paledave, there are many ways...
I would rather tag it as "Hey, wasn't there a science fiction story with that theme somewhere in the '50s?" But I forget if there really was such a story.
posted evening of April 14th, 2009 by Jeremy
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