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[The video opens on a shot of an odd, vaguely conch-shaped object sitting upon a table, shimmering with strange iridescence in the light. Anyone familiar with the Lunar Scientia laboratories might recognize one of the R&D labs out of focus in the background.]

This object has been developed at the Lunar Scientia with my assistance. We have decided to call it the 'Dinnumion.'

[Yaha-kui zaShunina walks into frame behind the table, and the camera zooms out so that both he and the object are in frame.]

When two people make physical contact with the Dinnumion, they can share their thoughts with one another. In this way, mental images, emotions, and memories can be accurately transferred directly from one mind to another. This connection ends when when physical contact with the device is broken. The Dinnumion is a device that will improve communication and reduce misunderstandings.

I would like to give the Dinnumion to the people of Lunatia. However, the materials required to create a single device are rare, and so it is not currently possible to mass-produce. I can create more of them by replication, but each reproduction will require two weeks to complete. Moreover, though I would like to give them as a gift, the process of creation requires a substantial quantity of chroma. The only compensation I require is an amount of chroma equal to the creation requirement.

You may respond either directly to this video or to my inbox if you wish to receive a Dinnumion. Currently, only this single unit exists, [Meaning the one on the table] and two weeks will be required to create another. [Which means there's going to be a waiting list if more than one order is made.]

((OOC: I've put up an OOC post regarding the Dinnumion here for any questions you might have for it.))

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[ okay but also that resumes people aren't lying or says their memories are more true than constructed, but he's still... curious. even if he's starting off by seeing the flaws. ]

Such an interesting concept. Then it's the active choice to share any of these things with the one holding the device alongside yourself?

[ A small pause. ]

And it limits itself to working with only two persons?

[zaShunina nods.]

That is partly correct; any active thoughts will be transferred. [Such as your inner monologue.] Inactive thoughts and memories that a user isn't currently accessing while using the Dinnumion will not be shared.

More than two participants carries a risk of overload.

Edited (Forgot to answer the second question) 2019-08-06 13:32 (UTC)

[ His answer comes at a delay, audio recording some fumbling and shifting material and softened sounds of tapping before—Eureka!—Shen Qingqiu has found the video function. The slight furrow between his brows, caused by him actually thinking how much of a fucking annoyance it is to be in the "learning" curve for tech he already figured out how to use, clears up as his video feed pops live. ]

So incidental active thoughts would transfer even before you might end the use of the Dinnumion.

[ For him, that's both weirdly tempting... and entirely dangerous. ]

It's a fascinating technology, and I'll admit, I'm curious. The lack of... [ here he pauses to search for a word, ] ... control of what's shared is unsettling, but I can see a value with it.

Yet... you feel this would eliminate misunderstandings? Could you clarify to this one what you mean by that?

[While zaShunina had recognized his voice, this is the first time seeing Shen Qingqiu's face when not under the effects of the Cordis moon.]

That is correct. [What, can't humans partition their thought processes like normal people?]

Information is most complete when it exists in a person's brain. However, it is abstract in its natural state, and in order to be transferred to another person, it must first be translated into linguistic information. It is then translated in the brain of the receiver from linguistic information back to abstract information. In this process, much of the original intent is lost between the two translations, and the end result is inevitably very different from the original concept. Thus, a misunderstanding.

The Dinnumion eliminates this translation as a necessity and transmits the original information in its unaltered form. The misunderstanding is eliminated.

[ This sounds amazingly bad on so many levels. It's also pulling on every curious bone in his body, dammit! Also you're the only normal person here, zaShunina. The only one. ]

Pending that both individuals can understand the other person's thought process, I suppose. It's a fascinating concept, but one I almost wonder... would something like this be useful for creating a... recording of a memory, or an event? A device that captured that information when actively brought into focus in a person's brain.

[ Controls are important to a guy who exists based on a juggling act of staying in control. But there are certainly memories and experiences worth communicating that don't lead to people turning into tentacle monsters that bleed purple, and don't require immersive VR equipment for the sharing.

Live thought transmission, no filtering? Fuck that. Other species may be more enlightened, but there's no human society he knows of that would function without people being able to offer white lies and withhold information and sidestep unpleasant realities that weren't going to be changed. ]

The Dinnumion does not currently possess that capability. [And yet zaShunina's smile softens as he quirks his head ever so slightly.] But that does not mean such a device could not be created. It would be a simple matter to develop an adapter to allow for the archival of mental information. [The Amphoria Room can already do something similar, but it's still got its glitches to work out.]

I understand that human thought processes are chaotic--you have little direct control of your own thoughts. You may not wish to transmit everything and instead withhold some information. It is not currently possible to filter mental information as the Dinnumion is now, but The Lunar Scientia may continue to develop its functionality.

[ Those glitches were disturbing, particularly when the NPCs who glitched were begging. There's nothing to him that isn't disturbing in that scenario, with anything begging to be freed, even if its an AI running whatever constructs were pulled out of his head. ]

What are the chances they will? Complete honesty isn't easy for anyone to live with. Even as a society, people function on what isn't said as much as what it... and I don't feel Lunatia or the Prismals are so markedly different in that way.

[ He pauses, tilting his head to the side. ]

Not that this is less than an extraordinary accomplishment. [ Even if it's exploitable, but the point is not looking at what people holding the technology might do in situations where two parties believe they're fully trusting but learn the hard, immediate way they're not. ] It's simply one I'm not sure those of us with chaotic thought processes can properly appreciate as it is. Though I'm curious about it, I don't know that I'd want to inflict my unfiltered thoughts on anyone. The input from my senses alone would be overwhelmingly loud, even if I don't have to actively think about them in the way I once did when getting used to such things.

Criticism is being considered.

[Were he still on Earth, with his limitless resources and the aid of his human negotiators, Yaha-kui zaShunina would simply distribute Dinnumions to everyone he could and let them deal with it as they would. But it isn't so easy here. To spread this technology and eliminate misunderstanding, he must make it desirable, and since his thought processes are so vastly different from a human's, he must take their critique into account in order to make it desirable.]

Anisotropic beings process and transmit information very differently from the Moonblessed or Prismals. The Dinnumion is an emulator for anisotropic communication. [A pause, and then] Perhaps Lunatia is not yet ready for that level of information transmission.

[Slowly. He must go slowly.

He doesn't like going slowly.]

I will continue to develop the Dinnumion's functionality with this limitation in consideration.

Thank you.

[ He feels the acknowledgement is important. Trying to make such different thought processes find a middleground must be difficult, when this kind of communication is Yaha-kui zaShunina's natural state. ]

Dealing with those of us who don't communicate in such a way must be headache inducing at times.

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