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From: grr <grr@lo2.org>
Date: Sat, 25 May 2024 13:24:09 -0400
Subject: fixes to 1966 energy cube

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-\chapter{Representation of the Memory of an Energy Cube Organism (1966 VERSION)}
+\chapter{Representation of the Memory of an Energy Cube Organism (1966)}
 
 The energy cube organism is a conscious organism which is nothing but 
 energy confined to a cubical space. It rests on a rectangular energy slab, in a 
@@ -9,9 +9,14 @@ four volumes are outlined by two intersecting planes which just miss being
 perpendicular. The slab is poised, at a slant, on the faces of the upper body 
 of liquid, near where they meet. There are no other objects in the bodies of 
 liquid. The slab, liquid, and spaces are the energy cube organism's entire 
-cosmology. (See the illustration.) 
+cosmology. (See figure \ref{energycube}.)
 
-\imgw{3.75in}{img/energycube}
+\begin{figure}
+\centering
+\includegraphics[width=3.75in]{img/energycube}
+\caption{tktk}
+\label{energycube}
+\end{figure}
 
 The energy cube organism can continuously change position, 
 continuously and instantly moving the liquid from its path into its wake so 
@@ -21,7 +26,7 @@ on one face of the liquid to its edge on the other.
 
 The energy cube organism has a conscious memory (by which I mean 
 strictly a memory of what it did and what happened to it, the past events of 
-its existence). The memory consists of symbols which are given "meaning" 
+its existence). The memory consists of symbols which are given \enquote{meaning} 
 by their extra-linguistic mental associations---in human terms, it consists of 
 language. The complete memory contains tens of thousands of partial 
 memories, which the organism can only have one at a time. Going through 
@@ -29,7 +34,7 @@ the partials---which it does as if they were the phonemes of one long
 word---constitutes its one complete memory. Each partial is a memory of the 
 difference in the organism's minimum distances from the destination edge, at 
 the beginning, and at the end, of some interval of time. Call the difference its 
-"progress." The total of time intervals in all the partials completely covers 
+\enquote{progress.} The total of time intervals in all the partials completely covers 
 the interval from the earliest remembered event to the most recent 
 remembered event. As time passes, more partials are added to the complete 
 memory. The production of partial memories is an involuntary process of 
@@ -47,12 +52,12 @@ between them. The intervals generally are of different durations. The energy
 cube organism lacks any independent extra-linguistic memory, any mental 
 reliving of the past, which could conflict with the dual temporal memory. 
 There is no form to the past other than that of the memory's language. (See 
-the graph.) 
+figure \ref{ecubegraph}.)
 
 The order of the partials in the complete memory is a linguistic 
 phenomenon which indicates the method the organism has been using to 
 move itself---and thus the order (with its extra-linguistic associations) is the 
-memory of the method. A single method" is everything to be done by the 
+memory of the method. A single method is everything to be done by the 
 energy cube organism to move itself, throughout the entire time it takes to 
 reach the destination edge. There are different possible methods, and each 
 could get the organism across; but the methods cannot be combined in any 
@@ -61,13 +66,12 @@ possible methods are in no special order. When a partial is added to the
 memory, the number of possible methods is increased by a factor equal to 
 the new number of partials. 
 
-\imgw{4in}{img/energycubegraph}
-
-{
-	\centering
-	\textsc{Graph} showing a possible relationship in the dual temporal memory 
-	\par
-}
+\begin{figure}
+\centering
+\includegraphics[width=4in]{img/energycubegraph}
+\caption{Graph showing a possible relationship in the dual temporal memory.}
+\label{ecubegraph}
+\end{figure}
 
 
 Now the complete memory is obtained by going through the partials---in 
@@ -80,33 +84,33 @@ it. It (does not remember the dream, and) does not remember going through
 the partials. It has no other memory of which method it has been using. 
 
 The organism moves itself by mental exertion, teleports itself. The 
-"possible methods" are mental routines. These routines draw on the 
+\enquote{possible methods} are mental routines. These routines draw on the 
 following standard mental resources. The organism can assume at will many 
-"mental states." By 'mental state' I refer to a mental "stage" or "space" or 
-"mood" in which visualizing, remembering, and all imaging can be carried 
+\enquote{mental states.} By \enquote{mental state} I refer to a mental \enquote{stage} or \enquote{space} or 
+\enquote{mood} in which visualizing, remembering, and all imaging can be carried 
 on. Some human mental states are general euphoria, stupor, general anxiety, 
 dreaming, dizziness, empathy with another person, and clearheadedness, the 
 normal state in which work is performed. These states are not defined by 
-specific imagings, but are "spaces" in which imaging is carried on. The 
+specific imagings, but are \enquote{spaces} in which imaging is carried on. The 
 organism changes its state by changing from one form of energy to another, 
 gravity, magnetism, electric energy, radiated heat, or light. In these states, 
 the organism has an unlimited capacity to image; in human terms, to 
-visualize. There are visualized regions of colored liquids. Call them "fluid 
-colors." There are visualized glowing surfaces, and there are black regions or 
-"holes." There are visualized "covers," "lattices," and "shells," which are all 
+visualize. There are visualized regions of colored liquids. Call them \enquote{fluid 
+colors.} There are visualized glowing surfaces, and there are black regions or 
+\enquote{holes.} There are visualized \enquote{covers,} \enquote{lattices,} and \enquote{shells,} which are all 
 formed from transparent planes, spherical surfaces and the like. Call them 
-"orojected surfaces." The fluid colors can be stationary or flowing. There are 
-"channels," which are strung-out series of fluid colors. There are 
-"reservoirs," which are clusters of fluid colors. A channel can be closed or 
+\enquote{orojected surfaces.} The fluid colors can be stationary or flowing. There are 
+\enquote{channels,} which are strung-out series of fluid colors. There are 
+\enquote{reservoirs,} which are clusters of fluid colors. A channel can be closed or 
 open. Two channels can cross each other. There are pairs of channels such 
 that earlier members of each channel flow into later members of the 
-other---called "screw-connected" channels. Fluid colors often occur on or 
+other---called \enquote{screw-connected} channels. Fluid colors often occur on or 
 within projected surfaces. Projected surfaces can be growing or held. A 
 visualization can be at the forefront of attention, or in the back of the mind. 
 That is, states have depth, and visualizations can be at different depths. The 
-state as a whole can be "frozen" or "melted." A human approach is to say 
-that a "frozen" state is set or fixed; while a "melted" state is fluid---the state 
-itself flows. A state can be projected into "superstate," gaining an abnormal 
+state as a whole can be \enquote{frozen} or \enquote{melted.} A human approach is to say 
+that a \enquote{frozen} state is set or fixed; while a \enquote{melted} state is fluid---the state 
+itself flows. A state can be projected into \enquote{superstate,} gaining an abnormal 
 amount of mental energy and becoming superdizziness or superanxiety, for 
 instance. 
 
@@ -114,8 +118,8 @@ Most interesting, states in different possible methods can have contact
 with each other. A human approach is to say that dreams are so flexible that 
 the organism can dream that an actual state is\slash was in contact with a state in 
 a possible method. One sort of cross-method contact is for states to be 
-"interfrozen"---more easily frozen because they are somehow mixed. They 
-can also be "intermelted." 
+\enquote{interfrozen}---more easily frozen because they are somehow mixed. They 
+can also be \enquote{intermelted.} 
 
 I will describe a method, as the organism would be conscious of it in 
 remembering. For concreteness, I will refer to the different states with the 
@@ -129,11 +133,11 @@ trajectory which shears, and closes, open channels. If no violation of the
 channels cross-mars the melt, the stack meshes with the sharp-open channels. 
 The dream becomes interfrozen, and mixed clear-headed states compress the 
 closed channels which were not fixed at the dream's surface. A fused 
-exterior double-flash (a certain maximally "glowing surface") is 
+exterior double-flash (a certain maximally \enquote{glowing surface}) is 
 expand-enveloped by euphoria, which becomes dizziness; and oblique 
 lattices are projected from the paralinear deviation of guided open channels 
 in it. Growing shells are dreamed into violet sound-slices (certain synesthetic 
-"fluid colors") by the needed jumped drag (a generic state), a crossfrozen 
+\enquote{fluid colors}) by the needed jumped drag (a generic state), a crossfrozen 
 dream. Channels in a growing anxiety enspiral concentric shells having 
 intermixed reservoirs between them, during cyclic intersection of the anxiety 
 in superstate. And on and on. Time is here the time it takes to carry out the 
@@ -149,8 +153,8 @@ interval. Absence of the hole indicates zero progress.
 
 The fluid colors in each of the reservoirs on each partial memory are 
 primary colors, and are mixed together. Speaking as accurately as possible in 
-human terms, in each reservoir there is precisely one point of "maximum 
-mixture" of the primary colors. The primary colors are mentally mixed in 
+human terms, in each reservoir there is precisely one point of \enquote{maximum 
+mixture} of the primary colors. The primary colors are mentally mixed in 
 any way until the right amount of mixture is reached. There is a scale of 
 measurement for amounts of mixture of the colors. There is a scale for 
 vertical distances on the surface---for how far one point is below another. The 
@@ -181,7 +185,7 @@ and by which method.
 \section*{The Representation}
 
 This essay accompanies a representation of the energy cube organism's 
-memory---hence its title. The way to picture the memory, naturally, is to 
+memory ---hence its title. The way to picture the memory, naturally, is to 
 make something that looks like the partials. I have represented the partials 
 by rectangular sheets of paper of different translucencies with mixtures of 
 inks of primary colors on them and holes cut in them; together in an 
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