A Missing Film

There is a film between Inception and Interstellar that few can claim to have watched. It begins near the end of the first film and gives another perspective on the whole of the second. The story goes like this. Cobb, having observed his totem, realises that he was wrong all the way. While he was going "down" a level, he was actually going "up" one. He also learns not to brand events as dreams and reality. Not one level alone can claim any more realism than others. After this, he decides to do what he always thought he was doing: to go "down". Difference in time works the other way in that case. If one chooses wisely and goes down enough levels, one can be as close to immortality as one wants. For example, in one second spent on a level deep enough, an entire galaxy, with all its planets, civilisations and languages can be materialised, thrived and gone on some level above.

Eventually, he acquires the ability to be conscious simultaneously on all levels, without the need of medication and kicks to get in and out of them.

On one of the levels he sees a dying earth with humans unable to escape it. He decides to help them by getting one of them, named Cooper, go down a few levels and acquire some data and come back. Note that extraction was Cobb's speciality before he found he could do inception. In Cobb's trade, this data helps to bend reality at will by an expert architect. In Cooper's this is called quantum data and it helps to get humans away from their earth.

An architect in Cobb's trade bending reality on a level is equivalent to a physicist in Cooper's solving some equations. Different trades, different jargon.

Cobb selects Cooper because he has first-hand experience of what a father could endure to reunite with his children. The mission, to someone with a background in science like Cooper, looks like being led to field after field of greater gravitation. To Cobb, he is moving from level after level of greater depth. That is, towards immortality. Unnatural difference in ageing between Cooper and his daughter may be noted at this point. He has been to some deeper levels while she never left their common level.  Cooper is yet to learn that the name of "the bulk being from the fifth-dimension" is, simply, Cobb.

Tip of the Iceberg

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Language is a complex multidimensional trap in which "communication" is only a bait.

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Aliens, at least some (or the more important ones), are beings of the subconscious. They visited us a long time ago, when man was a simple child. What they did to him appears to us today as sowing of the seed of language. His world was changed so irreversibly that what they actually did is not knowable to him. From their perspective, it is definitely much more intricate than "sowing the seed of language". The next time you see a painting or listen to a tune, even if it is crayon on ruled paper or some notes from a toy piano, remember that it is a rebellion against them. Writers whose works take us to other worlds are merely thinning the fog that exists between worlds. They are not creating anything.

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Someone inviting their opponent to "talk things over" must be confident of their skills in talking, if they understand the odds correctly. Tortoises are generally reluctant to go to races with hares, even after that famous and exceptional case. Hares are mischievously smiling at the backs, or 'the tail ends' to be more precise for quadrupeds (this human language!), of tortoises who agreed to do this.

Two Running Fish

We two were fish.
We used to live in a pond.
One day, he screamed to me:
"Dude, our tails are on fire"
I asked:
"What do we do?"
He screamed again:
"Run"
So we ran.
We ran a lot.
While running I asked:
"Are not we supposed to swim?"
He said:
"Nobody knows how to swim. Run"
So we ran.
We ran a lot.
While running I asked:
"How is it possible that fire can burn in water?"
He said:
"To hell with your science. Run, you idiot"
So we ran.
We ran a lot.
While running I asked:
"I do not remember me having a tail. Are you sure I have one?"
He said:
"That does not matter. Just run"
So we ran.
We ran a lot.
While running I asked:
"Dude, I really doubt if I am a fish."
He said:
"Run, run, run. Fire is burning."
So we ran.
We ran a lot.
I stopped asking.
At the end of the run, we shared a laugh and agreed that it was a great run.

The End of Numbers: Three

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Attack

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Counter-attack

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Peace.

A Car and a Human

Of all other differences, one stands apart.
A car can produce light, through its lamps.
Few humans in the recorded history of the entire universe is known to have emitted light.
Almost every car on roads or garages does that.
That is because a car is supposed to work in the dark too. In the night, inside tunnels.
And an animal like human is supposed to sleep in the night and live in more well-lit places than tunnels.
I don't know of human. Now that he has a car which can shine light, he may go to darker places.
We should respect cars.