The Council of Nine by Mark Kilfoil Memorandum From Overseer@10000100.11110110.00001010.00000111 to John.Smith@reports.nwo.gov One of the group reported this 2.0456 minutes ago. It is important. --- Included message: ------------------------------------------------- Memorandum From 1111100000@10000100.11110110.00001010.00000111 to Overseer@10000100.11110110.00001010.00000111 I am 1111100000. I have a report of an unconventional thought I had today. After this report I will report to mindwipe, as is required, but this information may bear analysis and scrutiny. Allow me to speak.. frankly for a few moments. Our research into multiprocessor, distributed parallel program execution has given me a potential insight into the working of the Enemy (ref. "Traditions, The"). No one has been able to identify the members of the Council of Nine, or even verify the Council's existance. I believe I have a possible reason. In parallel, distributed processing, we seek to increase the output of the total machine by performing several small tasks simultaneously on several smaller machines. As you know, this is our model of an efficient society, and we are analysing its potentials. The centralized machine does not exist, but rather the machine is the sum of all the smaller sub-machines. It occured to me that this might be the model that the Enemy uses for its organization: in short, there is no centralized Council of Nine, but several Councils of Nine, made up of informal groups of Enemy members. This would be why no particular people could be identified as the Council members, because there are none. The Councils are each independant yet related, each formed from members of each Tradition. The "Council of Nine" may also simply mean the coming together of the Nine Traditions, in a general sense. This is my thought. I will now report for manditory mindwipe. --- End Included message -------------------------------------------- I have detained 1111100000 from mindwipe at this time, because I believe this may be a significant insight into the Traditions' style of organization. Perhaps there never even was a Council, but rather they are discussing the combined Council of Nine Traditions. To whom, then are the Traditions a council? I await your recommendations. --------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Memorandum from Director44@actions.nwo.gov to Overseer@10000100.11110110.00001010.00000111 I am in charge of this research program now. Detain 1111100000 until one of our agents retrieves him. We believe this is a valid topic of research and thank you for your cooperation. Expansion by Anders Sandberg Memorandum From John.Smith@reports.nwo.gov to Overseer@10000100.11110110.00001010.00000111 After debriefing 1111100000 (standard green, we have sent him back to construct 10000100 according to standard procedures), we have come to the following conclusions: The idea of 1111100000 seems to have been caused by a typical DEI-associative cortex intuitive reaction with low chance of recurrence unless subjected to high levels of stress. Correction (if desired) is most probably trivial using standard procedures. That the so-called Council is divided into semi-independent units synergetically linked has been suggested by other researchers and the observational evidence cited by 1111100000. This is also supported by Ivory Tower sociological models, which clearly show that it is extremely unlikely that the various fractions of the Enemy could select representatives which would be accepted or respected by all members (or a sizeable fraction). In addition, the great geographic, cultural and philosophical distances between such representatives would make cooperation within the council impossible, and according to the models only 15.4% of the Enemy reality deviants would accept them as leaders. However, according to information gathered from the criminals apprehended in Operation Turtledove 1965, implies that there have been several attempts to form similar groups, often encompassing only 2-4 of the known fractions. One of the first attempts appears to be the incident with the Rosicrucian Manifestos during the 16th century, which apparently was a Rosicrucian attempt to create an alliance/armistice between members of the Order of Reason, the hermetic tradition and the Church. This never occurred, but the Rosicrucians (see database) appear to have continued similar attempts up to this day, although our operatives have so far prevented most of them. The Crowley affair seems to have ended this strategy nicely. There have been known alliances between various fractions of neo-shamanist, neo-pagan and counter-culture movements since the sixties. Conclusion: The 'Council of Nine' is very improbable (p=0.21%), while the parallel model of several councils have a much higher probability (p=43.3%), especially in the light of historical data. That all these councils would encompass members of all fractions of the Enemy is unlikely (p=1.1%), and might be attributed to the symmetrization tendencies of unit 1111100000. The current model (see file C9_MODEL_45.4, sec clearance 32) implies a network of councils, many of which claim to be the real council for various reasons. Their mutual interactions form a complex structure exhibiting self-organized criticality, which implies that their activities can be disrupted using a Kolmogorov-Cohen strategy. One World. One Truth. One Reality.