\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 stationary, colorless liquid, separated from the slab by a thin film of liquid. It has been on the slab for an indefinitely long time. There are in fact two infinite bodies of the liquid, alternating with two infinite empty spaces; the 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 figure \ref{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 as to make no current in the liquid. For almost as long as it has been on the slab, the organism has devoted itself to crossing the slab, from the slab's edge 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 \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 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 \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 the organism. The memory is temporally dual. The interval for each partial is an interval of fixed time, defined by its duration, and the distance from the fixed time when the energy cube organism appeared on the slab up to the interval's end. But it is also a sliding interval, defined by its duration, and a constant distance from the present instant back to the interval's end. When partials are added to the memory, each of the former intervals exactly covers the tire not already covered, up to the absolute time when the partial is added. But the latter intervals, while they never overlap, can have gaps 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 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 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 way. Every order of all partials signifies a different possible method. These 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. \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 any order! Any order gives the memory. This feature, which can be precisely characterized in terms of the memory language, is perhaps the most remarkable feature of the whole cosmology. An approach to this feature in human terms is to say that when the organism goes through the partials, (it dreams that) it has been using the method indicated---and is presently using 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 \enquote{possible methods} are mental routines. These routines draw on the following standard mental resources. The organism can assume at will many \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 \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 \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 \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 \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 \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. 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 \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 names of human states rather than with letters. Channels are generated in a frozen stupor, and become fixed at the forefront of attention of euphoria intermelted with a possible state. The screw-crossed channels erode crevices in a held lattice, which breaks into growing sheets (a variety of covers). The sheets are stacked, and held in a frozen dream thawed at intervals for reshuffling of the stack. The dream becomes melted, and proceeds in a 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 \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 \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 successive steps of the routine. The energy cube organism language, the symbols constituting the partials, are themselves mental entities. A partial is a rectangular plane glowing surface, which has two stationary plane reservoirs on it, and has a triangular hole in it. As a mental entity, in other words, a partial is a visualization like those which are part of the methods. The perimeter of the triangular hole equals the organism's progress in the corresponding time 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 \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 difference in amounts of mixture at the two points of maximum mixture corresponds to the length of the first temporal interval; and the difference between the maximum possible amount of mixture and the lesser of the two amounts of maximum mixture on the surface corresponds to the distance from the fixed beginning time to the interval's and. The vertical distance between the two points of maximum mixture corresponds to the length of the second temporal interval; and the vertical distance from the middle of the surface to the point nearer it corresponds to the constant distance from the present instant back to the interval's enc. The middle of the surface represents the present, and the upper half represents the future; the reservoirs are all in the lower half. For each partial it is necessary to determine (1) the number of units of duration per unit difference in amounts of mixture; and (2) the number of units of duration per unit difference in vertical distances. The average glow per unit area of each glowing surface (excepting the hole) is correlated with a pair of numbers constituting this information. Finally, turning all the partial memories upside down---and reflecting the first temporal memory in the present instant, so that the intervals' absolute distances from the present are preserved---gives the precognition of the organism's future course of action, tells what progress will be made when 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 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 envelope, which bears the injunction not to have more than one sheet out at a time. Three of the tens of thousands of partials are represented.