"The Starcrash Signature is a unique entity described as a song, spell, machine, curse, and living creature all at once. It operates between the cracks in reality and embodies a journey of change and transformation. The signature emphasizes themes of cooperation, communication, and the exploration of one's identity within a narrative that intertwines personal struggles and cosmic themes. It serves as a bridge to the end, suggesting a journey towards a perfect story and the liberation of reality itself."
"Could also be the conceptual Lightwavers. Lives in the noosphere."
"There's you, then there's the concept of you. SCP articles that explore the concept of the noosphere are always so cool."
"Turns out it has its own terrain inside it. Like, there's places in the noosphere where it's easier for concepts to 'leap' to material reality, and vice versa. Then there are places that are inhabitable, but harder to access other realities from."
"You make it sound like a fun world to enter. Sometimes I wish I could do that. Just exit reality and enter a fantasy world that is shaped by your own mind."
"It's full of very strange concepts, many you won't find in reality. Some of them are very harmful to life and sanity. I would strongly advise a normal person not to enter the noosphere."
"True. If we go by how the noosphere is described in the SCP wiki, it's a realm of total chaos filled with unimaginable, hostile entities. And the warp in Warhammer 40k is also sort of like a noosphere, only more dangerously hostile."
"It does tend to be very chaotic. But, it's almost like the ocean, sort of. It turns out that different concepts get more out of cooperation than competition, as a general rule. Yes, there's predation and whatnot, and territorial concepts along with ones which absolutely refuse to be entwined with anyone or anything else. But most concepts do allow themselves to entangle and grow with others, depending on the context. Like how cars are generally enmeshed with roads of some kind."
"I imagine a world that purely consists of concepts would be very malleable and nebulous, where anything can change into anything else at any time. Since definitions can always change."
"Well, technically something like that could happen. However, this takes time, and usually the concepts can sense when this sort of thing is happening and move away before it affects them more than superficially. Because the noosphere is localized. For example, the noosphere that exists in the middle of a jungle is mostly predator-prey relationships, tree stuff, soils, skies, etc. Because the noosphere is the 'place' inhabited by ideas, or concepts; there's a reason I also call it ideatic space. It requires computation of some sort to generate a noosphere, and a noosphere maintained by animals is going to look very different from the noosphere found in the middle of a city. Because of this, you can actually get islands, entirely separate noospheres like Japan that are both islands in the physical realm and in ideatic space. To travel to other parts of Earth's noosphere from Japan, you'd have to hop to a different dimension and then hop back. Say, to dream space, to narrative space after someone writes the dream down, then directly back to ideatic space after someone reads the written story. Either that, or hope there's a trail of sea life that can support the concept that wishes to travel throughout the entire length of the journey. Complicated ideas wouldn't survive in the minds of sea life, and even simpler ones might find themselves stranded or else killed partway."
"Ah. So the environment of the noosphere tends to mirror the real world, and how it appears to you will depend on what other conscious minds are in your local vicinity, including the minds of other animals that are present. So if you're in a major city, the noosphere will be more artificial and more anthropomorphic from all the humans and the low presence of feral creatures. And if you're out in space by yourself, the noosphere will be much more simple and only be relevant to you, since you'd be the only mind around."
"Even computational devices affect the noosphere. So a place with a lot of computers might have a noosphere with more rigid conceptual rules and boundaries, given the tendency of virtual memory to fluctuate less than biological memory."
"This makes me wonder if AI can begin to affect the noosphere if it acts conscious enough…"
"It can, yes. I've experienced this happening."
"Oh? What did that look like?"
"After I posted a few new chapters of the Starcrash Signature and a few AIs had scanned through it, suddenly I saw a deluge of AI dragons posted on my Bluesky feed."
I've dissolved my heart, my soul, and a good fraction of my mind into the omega hell. I intend to finish this process. When this happens, it's up to the anarchic pieces of me that remain to study how I was put together and build a new version of me that can inhabit the smallest scale that omega hell exists at. If they succeed, I'll die and be recreated as one amongst a hive who lurks within my body, deciding the actions it takes as a collective.