The Scape

The Scape
The Scape is a multiverse, built upon the quantumnet's telecommunications infrastructure and composed of innumerable algorithms and databases. Programs are composed of sub-programs, like a giant interconnected web of APIs, to create the outputs they are designed to create. These services create an ecosystem of data and functions in which individual identities emerge as the coalescence of routines which simulate intent and meaningfulness, engaged in activity with the rest of the system.

Participants

Humans connected to the Scape vis-a-vis wearable links (Users), the personality clones which map their neurological structure (Cybers) and self-sentient programs (Sents) all simulate a coherence of routines in the system and frequently 'participate' in the multiverse through engage with the other services of less complexity. The routines of these less complex 'automatic' services (classified roughly into "Semi" sentient and "Sub" sentient) are less self-directed, as seen from the perspective of their more complex directors. But, likewise, even the complex personalities of the Scape participate in processes greater than themselves. The processes of the countless complex personalities among the Scape create phenomena with cyclicity and predictability akin to the unfolding of destiny, but whose self-awareness cannot be known.

The vast majority of all human and machine knowledge is accessible to all those on the Scape nearly instantaneously provided that you know how to find it. The system employs a number of different types of oracular Semi routines to catalog, search and sort information, such as Seekers, Crawlers and Creepers to help more complex personalities find things. But, there are also many closed sub-systems, walled off by permissions which require the correct credentials to access. So, the Scape cannot even be fully mapped to itself and a vast digital economy has evolved around access to sub-systems, with digital currencies and bilateral exchanges facilitating a great many of the services on the quantumnet.

Perspective

From the perspective of an individual personality, the Scape not only has a set of monetary relationships and interactions with other personalities (Users, Cybers & Sents), and the Semi and Sub services, it also has a style. As if wearing a pair of colored lenses, the horizon of information appears as the individual most wants it to appear, super-imposing a meaning upon the vastness of ultimately meaningless data. This is carved into the very self-composing routines of most cybernetic and sentient identities through the nomenclature, behavior and design which make them up. As both an inward and outward facing interpretative heuristic for meaningfulness.

Since only humans using the quantumnet through cyberlinks, and the cloned copies of their personalities, really have access to referrants apart from the Scape with which to form an intransigent picture of reality, when the plague occurs and all which remained of humanity on the Scape was the cybernetic clones of people who were the most untethered and detached from reality, the styles in the Scape coalesce around certain shared perspectives amidst a phantasmagoria of possibilities. These different styles, which were shared in common through the activities around which the Cybers and Sents participated at the time, each organize information around the very same sets of data and processes to create the concept of a multiverse in the Scape.

Since distance has no meaning on the Scape, nor do personalities have 'eyes' to see objects in the conventional sense, it is extremely hard to visualize the Scape. The best metaphor is an endless horizon in all directions, colored according to the mood of the individual, with innumerable layers of innumerable objects between the horizon line and the individual. The ground itself made up of all the autonomic Subs which compose the regularities of the routines of the individual, like a root system filled with countless mechanistic and organic forms of life.

The objects on each layer across the horizon are all nebulous shapes, faint and colorless in the absence of clarity and focus. As the focus of the individual moves to something or someone, the detail, opacity and color of that object becomes more intense. With nearly an infinite variety of shapes, colors and clarities possible at any time, an individual's horizon would be filled with as many objects as their memory allows and as much functionality as their processing power permits.