Thanks for the ideas, and as you know the BIMAX certainly sits at center stage within the answer. Every interface needs a screen by which to render data onto for the purpose of experience. And both with waking and sleep based perception, there is no escaping a requirement for a screen by which data is rendered.
Which takes us to the ITLAD/CTF as memory. If we deconstruct memory into data storage, what we have is a central database by which we upload and download data in the form of memory that must then be rendered onto the BIMAX. Because the human brain is computational, in that it must calculate and render data into a coherent experience. We know the physical brain is natures Quantum Super-Computer. Hameroff, Penrose, Musha to name a few have brought real science to the nature of a computative organic system like the human brain.
In relation to the BIMAX, it is the equivalent of a "Reality" rendering farm that must take this "data" and process it until a coherent BIMAX experience can be observed by the "Self". What the self is experiencing is information gained by a sensory apparatus which in turn stimulates neurons that basically facilitate the data processing, or pre-rendering. I akin this to what Hameroff talks about when he describes incoherent energies (thermal, electromagnetic, chemical) being transformed into coherent photons which starts the quantum realization of a biological computative system.
Once the information is reduced to a "binary" code, it is then digitally processed onto the BIMAX and "rendered" into the experience. At least this is my digital spin on the BIMAX based on the computative reality found in our grey matter. Which leaves us with one particular component of interest:
The DATASTREAM.
In ITLAD/CTF we are looking at the source of the stream being attributed to memory, which again implies a form of data storage. In our "waking physical reality" the datastream clearly comes from the "Objective Physical Universe" in the form of varying degrees of energies in different states, light waves, vibrations, chemical reactions, thermal dynamics etc. At least, that is the obvious interpretation of what the source of the datastream is.
This changes dramatically when we look at the same process but from the perspective of a dream. And this is what really interests me, and you'll no doubt see the connection to the BIMAX especially if we add some data processing to the mix.
What makes a "Dream" different from "Physical Reality" is only two things: The Datastream and The Interface.
I'll need to break down the BIMAX a little into data processing and rendering to give this a fitting example:
The Physical Reality Model:
1.) DATASTREAM = Potential Information in the form of Physical Matter / Energy.
2.) The Interface = Five Physical Senses [ the body ]
3.) Data Interpretation = Converting the data into a computative language.
4.) Data processing = pre-rendering data sorting and processing.
5.) Data Rendering = The process of turning the data into a coherent experience.
6.) The Screen = The BIMAX.
7.) The Audience = The Self.
This is just a loose model, but what is interesting is what happens to this model when we switch it to a "Dream" as the source of the DATASTREAM.
The Dream Model:
1.) DATASTREAM = Organized Thoughts
2.) The Interface = Virtualized Five Physical Senses.
3.) Data Interpretation = Converting the data into a computative language.
4.) Data processing = pre-rendering data sorting and processing.
5.) Data Rendering = The process of turning the data into a coherent experience.
6.) The Screen = The BIMAX.
7.) The Audience = The Self.
In the Dream Model, there is no physical source of the datastream in the form of pre-determined energy and matter that one can just sense. It reduces to what I view as organized thought.
The interface also changes dramatically, as in order to experience the organize thought in a self-similar manner within this model, once needs to create an avatar in the virtual dream world where-by the five physical sense actually become five virtual senses.
3-7 are all still parts of the data processing and data rendering component of a digital BIMAX. Perhaps a holodeck version of the BIMAX is more fitting in this example, but you get the idea. Data -> Interface -> Processing -> Rendering -> Experience.
Now in the context of "precognitive dreams" and the actualization into a "physical reality" we have the original source of the initial datastream, which in this case is: Organized Thought.
A lot to think about is what I think
