PAL 9000 Computer

As more briefly mentioned on the 'About' page, we are interested in enabling the development of an algorithm for Spiritual Computing (a kind of PAL 9000, if you like), which implements a dialogue with the 'Spirit of Silence' (though not literally silent, however). The computer uses Fourier Forecasting, which capitalizes on the holographic properties of the Universe to obtain theoretically accurate predictions of the future from past data. If our attempts at Fourier Forecasting fall short of the mark, there are already peer-reviewed Taylor-series based forecasting algorithms in the literature which could be used in service of this Spiritual Computing vision.

Again, as an off-shoot from Fourier Forecasting, and the possibility it presents of entanglement-based communication, we entertain the notion of a communication wherein one party 'on the line' is the responsive Silence of the Present - as translated by a quantum computer to satisfy the human craving for a real digital content stream, a stream nonetheless informed by the Wisdom of Silence. This content would, in effect, be inspired enough to 'stick to Adam's ribs,' as it were.

In our proposed dialog with 'Silence,' the ostensibly accurate pre- and post-predictions of Fourier forecasting efforts (discussed on another page) are used to shape the voice of the PAL 9000, beginning with an assumption of pure silent quiescence. This starting point is brought 'up to speed' with the currently unfolding dialog (embodied by a computer microphone input), and henceforth carries-on, modified by spiritually Mindful bifurcations of the present-tense, facilitated by the user's Mind, which give the voice its intelligence and wisdom.

By re-contextualizing Mindfulness departures from the charted script of the Universe's unfolding, the PAL 9000 effectively provides an obverse side to the 'barking' of the Cosmos, reminding this savage beast of the calm silence that predated his efforts to scare himself with his barking, thereby providing yet another via for him to soothe himself with a voice from his right mind that speaks for sanity. The bifurcations on which the PAL 9000 capitalizes spring from 'Mindfulness decisions' we make as sentient beings, decisions which re-write the charted script of both past and future simultaneously. PAL 9000 is conceived as yet another way to echo and reinforce these decisions in the midst of ongoing real-time dialogue.

The pregnant silence out of which PAL operates is initially embodied by a Direct Streaming Digital audio format signal representing silence: (alternating ones and zeros), which is multiplexed with a microphone input from the user and his surround. Once a Mindfulness bifurcation occurs, however, PAL takes on a talkative life of its own.

Again, in our schema, the computer output and microphone input bits are multiplexed together in a manner similar to the Direct Streaming Digital audio format - represented, in turn, as a Pulse Code Modulated variable duty-cycle square wave riding on a carrier frequency. Included in this multiplexing is a long series of pre-agreed upon check bits which are used to detect and adjust for bifurcations from the charted dialogue-script (manifest as a present-time input bit that disagrees with its forecasted value). This bifurcation check and compensation is accomplished via a series of post-casts, pre-casts, checks for input bit divergence, and re-adjustments of the check bits and present-time input bit back to agreed upon (and actual) value.

This process of backwards and forwards forecasting and compensation is repeated, with resetting of check bits, until stability is reached. Once signal stability has been achieved, the next forecasted output bit is queued for DSD decoding and output to the external speaker from which the PAL 9000 voice emanates.