Esper Register
Although espers only came into existence a generation ago, they already effectively constitute a societal class, a subculture with its own jargon, fashion, and code of conduct. No one wants to say it directly, but many espers cannot help but look down upon the mundane 99.9% of people blind to the glory of the noosphere.…
Tessellation: A Review of “Upon The Mirror Sea”
For the first time in my life I read an entire novel on a computer screen – I thought this would make it harder, but in practice the ability to sneak a chapter in between other business permitted me to finish it faster than I normally would making time to sit down with a physical…
Toposophic Transcendence
Once someone reaches toposophic level 3 they see inside their own minds with perfect clarity, as well as see the world for what it truly is. This grants them access to superhuman abilities, manipulating reality in strange and astonishing ways. Despite these incredible powers, the fact that a phase shift above sapience existed provoked the…
Psychic Cultivation
For those just catching up: the first esper was a woman named Celeste, who, while receiving transcranial magnetic stimulation to treat a major depressive disorder, spontaneously broke through to a higher toposophic level: the state of mind that is to human-like sapience what sapience is to animal sentience. This third degree of mentality conferred an…
Noosphere Emergence
In the 1920s, the French paleontologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and Russian biogeochemist Vladimir Vernadsky elaborated on something they called the “noosphere”. Just as the geosphere (the inanimate chemical and mechanical processes of the Earth) gave rise to the biosphere (the ecological interactions of life), the biosphere gave rise to the noosphere: the realm of…
Ray Cats
In 1993, Sandia National Laboratories released a report addressing a problem that wouldn’t matter for thousands of years: once you’ve built a lead-lined nuclear waste disposal bunker, how do you convince people in the far future not to dig it up? Since you can’t assume that these hypothetical people will speak your language or even…