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anti-clockwise through the timeclearing, these bra representations
would become ket representations pointing instead, now, toward
future possibilities that, paradoxically, had been past prior to the
volte-face. You could think of this
volte-face as an imaginary number
riding an e-horse, performing circus
tricks on it by sitting on the electron alternately looking forward or
backward and rewarding the electron-horse each time by feeding it a
tiny quark pie. The wide-open timeclearing discovered by Mu included
not merely the straight line of the
sensuous real, but was replete with
the rich multidimensionality of the
imaginary that enabled a temporal
flexibility inconceivable to mathematized science which, in turn,
and without realizing its full import,
had introduced at least a flat plane
of imaginary numbers to enable its
complex calculations.
Once suit ably rot ated a nd
reoriented temporally, Psi and Phi
could return to their human situation some time prior to the terrible thunderstorm. It proved easy
to persuade two electron-riding,
pie-feeding imaginary numbers
to give them a temporal shove
through 180 degrees so that they
could return eventually to a previous dynamic state. Once temporally reoriented toward their past,
all that was necessary was patience
for the past dynamic possibility of
retransmutation to come up, and
the vigilance to seize this chance.
By collaborating with fellow electrons, they could compose an algorithmic bit-string that generated
bit-string situations in the cyberworld favourable for the possibility
of returning to human form. Such a
possibility was the growing affinity
of human being to a cybernetic selfunderstanding, since human being
itself unwittingly was rapidly being

engulfed by Turingia. Humans were
casting their very minds as a kind
of computer, a self-conception initiated already by Gnirut. Psi and Phi
would have to hang out, say, in an
artificial intelligence research project to conjure the right atmosphere
for their retransmutation, where the
algorithms aimed at least at emulating the human brain's functioning,
if not the human mind. It was easy
enough to infiltrate into an artificial intelligence bit-string, especially
since by now they had good electronic contacts.
The only problem remaining
to be solved was how to prevent
a rerun of their past once regaining their human form. They would
need to be rotated 180 degrees
once more to be reoriented toward
an open future, and for this they
each would require a mighty shove
from electrons ridden by imaginary
numbers feeding pies to them. It
was illusory to hope that merely two
pie-feeding, imaginary electron-riders would suffice for this renewed
tempora l volte -face, for then
Psi and Phi would have assumed
their full sizes again as truly massive dynamic states. It demanded a huge collective effort on the
part of freedom-craving electrons
in co-operation with innumerable
pie-feeding imaginary-number e-riders. Countless quark pies had to
be baked with the aid of the energetic input of photons, which was
a relatively easy task. The whole
effort, however, was manifestly a
cyber-political issue. Their fellow
denizens of the cyberworld had to
be persuaded to assist. This was
achieved over time by our two
cyber-captives' promising to maintain their electronic solidarity once
they had remetamorphosed. Their
solidaric credentials were excellent
because, unknowingly, they had left
many digital traces throughout their

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journey that were now preserved
in Turingia, so that the electrons
could easily look up and check their
digital record.
Hence the electrons were wellinformed. In particular, they knew
of Phi's and Psi's acquaintance with
Roger who, in turn, was associated with the Electron Liberation
Standstill. Along with the campaign
for Ineffective Standstill, the ELS
enjoyed a shining reputation in
Turingia among its electronic inhabitants. This piece of information
alone was enough to draw cyberelectronic support. It was decided
at a great assembly of trillions of
electrons, attended also by countless imaginary e-riders, that they
would form a mighty temporary
cavalry to rotate, with a well-aimed,
swift, twin push, the dynamic states
of Psi and Phi so that as humans
they could resume their individual
existences toward a genuinely open
future, full of possibilities. The electronic cavalry, suitably rewarded
with quark pies, would then dissolve as quickly as it had formed.
The two travellers would then be
under the obligation to continue
their support for a rethinking of
efficacy, especially insofar as it
concerned the enslavement of electrons in the billions of forced-labour
camps in the bit-string copulators
of Turingia. Phi and Psi were more
than willing to make this pledge.

Author Information
The author is Australian philosopher,
mathematician and translator currently living in Cologne, Germany.

Acknowledgment
This piece is an excerpt from
Michael Eldred, The Land of Matta:
A Philosophical, Quantum-Mechanical Phantasy. North Charleston,
SC: CreateSpace,2015.

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