meatnet

look i respect people who are making jokes like haha "squelch into the meatnet" "you should synap into the meatnet dude" but i feel like folks dont actually know what the meatnet is. like ok it's weird but it's cool and i have an account on nervo (handle ~wallfly lol self promo)

uhhh alright where to even fuckin start. um. beginning sure

so meatnet started as a kinda alternative to the modern internet back in like 2043. its kinda like how tor works, connecting to the dark web or whatever, but instead of the dark web it's the meatnet, which is... fuck how do i even explain that LOL. it's an artificial noospheric superorganism??? i guess? yeah whatever that works

so when u connect - linker, jack, i prefer jack tbh it feels less fuzzy to me - u route thru a threshold node. wtf is a threshold node? its a vat-brain lol. in case u havent been up to speed on nootech, a vat-brain, or as its technically called, Synthetic Neural Wetware Unit, is a clump of neural tissue usually packed into a slab about as thick as a finger. like diameter-wise. sorry that was a bad comparison but anyway. this slab is connected up to a weird ribbon cable that takes analog nootech signals, optimised patterns of human thought and all that shit, and it just processes it and puts out data or whatever

thing about meatnet units is that theyre not slabs, but they probably once were idk. theyve been intentionally overgrown to like, fit into aquariums and bathtubs and shit, and they're all doused in acsf-- artificial cerebrospinal fluid, think it's some perfluorocarbon thing from back when they were trying to twig liquid respiration for high-pressure environments in the late 30s. oxygen and nutrients and stuff r circulated thru that and its kinda creepy to look at LOL

overgrowin em creates interesting little problems that guys working with em professionally find frustrating, but the folks on meatnet are all about those problems. see at a certain size the regulatory circuitry can't manage the unit effectively anymore and it starts getting into cyclic thought patterns. what the debugging guys working this problem didnt realise is that those were creating little flickers in noospace - exactly like when a baby first develops a brain in the womb. those flickers eventually conglomerate into what we know as the seat of consciousness, which gives things some level of influence in noospace!!!

what meatnet guys do is they let these brains overgrow, then cut it off with hormone control and induce those exact same flickers, which after a while clumps up with other malformed seats to make a weird blob in the noosphere. it's practically featureless at first formation - i think they know for a fact it can't actually become sapient so almost nothing influences the seat-clump - and so they can impress upon it... turn it into a relay. and that's how they configure a meatnet threshold node

but wtf does it relay into?? the meatnet superorganism!! originally it was just a big blob of connected nodes whose appendages stetched across the continential US, but now they're all over the world. its mass is currently sat about where the earth's core would be in the noosphere. agency projections of it in noospace r fuckin crazy, thing looks like a plasma ball. apparently its growing too and they dont know whatll happen when it envelops the entire world but i hope its funny