I originally started making this thing after trying to figure out how I would make a spirit bottle in my own idiosyncratic method. I eventually decided I'd rather use it to try bottling a concept, something that anyone could use, rather than make it as a seat for a spirit. To that end, I've bottled Inspiration.
The bottle is constructed as an 8-dimensional flask, a self-contained microuniverse. In this regard it's similar to "Machines, Take Up Thy Schematics and Self-Construct," but that device was created to facilitate access and exploration of a specific current or sub-category of idea; the bottle is designed to keep its contents as separate as possible from the rest of existence. The opposing triangles on the top and bottom create an 8-dimensional circuit that encloses the contents. Built into this circuitry is a sigil device that allows ideas to be introduced into the physical contents (in this case, the mate-vodka idea juice), seeding the informational superstructure of the medium with concepts that will grow like crystals in a solution.
By viewing the entire paradigm I generally work with, the one with which I make these machines, as a single higher-dimensional topological object or structure, I can interact with it as though it were a map or landscape; by pulling up, and then folding down, the concept of Inspiration as viewed from different points within this landscape, I generated a number of seed-sigils which I then planted in the informational super-structure of the idea juice. These memes, which vary widely in their composition but all of which embody various facets of Inspiration, will be matured by the machinery of the bottle. The bottle includes processes which monitor the ongoing growth of the concepts, and the networks and structures their interactions create, and which guides the developing ideas towards the richest veins of Inspiration (while still allowing for a degree of random mutation to encourage unforeseen innovation). The operator can also introduce his or own concepts into the medium, and they'll be grown in the same manner. Because the flask is designed as an enclosed universe with one more temporal dimension than the medium's superstructure, particular ideas can be focused on at will, and followed backwards through its evolution, forward to its descendants, or through divergent developments in three-dimensional time.
Because the operator's paradigm will be different from mine, the ideas will manifest in ways that may be entirely different than how I interpret them; and because the bottle is self-enclosed, they will likely develop in a way wholly different from how they've evolved in the larger ideaspace with which I'm working. In this way, a greater robustness of Mystery is achieved, because a greater variety of strains of Weirdness will manifest in the world.
I activated the bottle primarily through paradox modulation, and once online it continues to power itself by harvesting energy from its own innate spin through its higher-dimensional axes. It will slowly complexify on its own from the energy/information generated by the growth of concepts within, but any energy/information fed into it by the operator will greatly increase its 'weight' as a higher-dimensional concept; the more it is used, the more meaningful it becomes. This is kind of obvious, but it means that with use the ideas within will evolve at a much higher rate.
Other than that, I've been working on a Sasquatch Resonator, to more easily access and investigate the Bigfoot/Sasquatch/Yeti mindstream:
Still working on it, but it's already been functioning quite well.
I've also been using that complex that was built in my dreams awhile back, the one I mapped out over a couple days:
Like I said above, I often use a higher-dimensional topological projection as a way of moving around the paradigm I'm building/using. By switching at times to using this... research complex, some interestingly different interactions are possible. A big part of this was inspired by an interview with Paul Laffoley I read, where he off-handedly references how Nikola Tesla would construct a machine within a lucid dream, set it in motion, wake up and go about his life, and then check back in a few days later to see where it had worn out. This is a pretty awesome idea and while I'm obviously no Tesla, I've been employing it for awhile now, in a combination of lucid dreaming and active imagination. By using the research complex metaphor, I can have certain sections of the complex specialize on developing certain ideas, or even kinds of ideas, and then come back a while later to see what comes of it. Obviously this is possible with the higher-D topology model, as well as countless other paradigms I'm sure, but it is interesting.
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