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Servitor Swarm Synergy

This article originally appeared in Konton Magazine, Vernal Equinox 2006, issue 3.1.

Of late I have been studying the phenomenon of distributed processing of function over networks, and the emergence of a superorganism which can result from the collective efforts of numerous components which are themselves quite simplistic.  In biological systems, such as ant colonies, a hive mind emerges which coordinates the efforts of all its parts in a non-hierarchical yet efficient way.  It is this effect which has inspired engineers to create swarming machines.

I began to contemplate whether or not a similar effect would occur if an interconnected swarm of servitors were created which were not individually invested with a great deal of intent, and were collectively charged with a broad statement of purpose

The result was that I decided to create a cluster of 12 identical servitors, which I refer to as nodes, each charged with the task of gathering information that would be of interest or benefit to me, and funneling such information back to me by any convenient or available communication channel.

Collectively, the construct is designated as “Nexus 0xC”, roughly meaning “the connected 12.”  I chose Hexadecimal, or base 16 to represent the numeric portion of the name in order to avoid the commonality of the everyday decimal numbering system.  The individual component servitors are identically created from the same visualized seed which divides instantaneously into 12 equal parts.  Upon the creation of the 12, each is intended to be self-aware, but is not yet connected to the others. 


The symbol of the ultimate manifestation of Nexus 0xC is a dodecagon with an empty circle at each vertex.  Each vertex is connected to every other in order to symbolize the network which exists between these servitors.  In the center of the network is another empty circle which represents me.  Twelve identical tokens were also created to represent the nodes of the nexus, and to be the foci for the individual servitors.  By design, these tokens are indistinguishable from one another, to emphasize the uniformity of the members of the swarm.


These tokens were deployed in various locations around the city to symbolize the wide scope of this information gathering system.  As this was done, the servitors were visualized to emerge from the tokens as coherent, invisible wave forms, and to begin gathering information.  This was to be stored until all nodes had been distributed and connected.

The physical components of this operation are accompanied by a corresponding set of visualized counterparts.  The virtual seed form of the cluster was visualized as liquid silver-white light coalescing from the void, accumulating into a mirrored, mercury-like sphere.  Just as a larger glob of mercury accumulates smaller amounts into itself, increasing the volume of the sphere, the seed was allowed to develop in imaginal space.  As each of the node servitors was released from its token, a portion of this energy was visualized to detach and emerge as the wave form of the servitor.

After the final token was distributed, the act of connecting them into the nexus was performed.  The original dodecagon symbol was used as the focus for this operation.  While focusing on the symbol, a state of excitatory gnosis was entered via a combination of sensory overload, mind-altering substances, and orgasm.  At the moment immediately prior to white-out, I visualized a projection as emerging from the symbol as silver-white light, and spreading out to connect the individual nodes.  At this moment, all of the nodes became joined through the myriad pathways into Nexus 0xC.

When I meditate and focus my thought on the Nexus symbol, I visualize myself as being within the center hub of the network.  If the swarm of node servitors has any information to relay to me, they can then do so through the pathways.  I have only recently completed this operation, so I cannot yet report any demonstrable results.

The possibility of a hyper-implementation of this network has also occurred to me, either as a group working, or in further iterations on my own.  Additional clusters could be created, and then linked to the original in order to attain an even wider sensory array.

Vargr
February 16, 2006


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