Stories ideas jelling and migrating
CAPN is like an infant, this really a break though idea for me in this story. I need to allow CAPN (or CAPNs see below) to grow from an infantile “life” to something more mature, and this story can only deal with the infantile portion of the CAPNs existence.





Neil is going to make a change to CAPN, and when he does nothing stops it spreading throughout the entire network once Neil loosens the infections level of the virus. The ears” want attention but they can not get excitation form trade information from the places they pop up. So the substitute. Then they evolve.

Neil’s bitterness makes sense. I need to go back and do a better job of motivating Neil’s bitterness. Neil saw himself as a start, and by taking the job in the Pentagon his life becomes a big nothing in his mind.

Then CAPNs will form when “natural” events happen within densely networked phones.

This is big change it the story. Rather having CAPN be a single intelligence it will become a multiple intelligences. Each focus a dense network of callers.

Here is the idea. After the power crises Neil is eager to get CAPN going again. His ego gets the best of him, where before he had been very careful to limit CAPN’s ability to spread keeping in focused on a few dense networks of traders he lets CAPN free so that the computation can roam more freely. But he does not do it carefully enough in his haste looses control. Now the CAPNs get disconnected from his primary their primary objective, to gather trade information. How ever Neil does not recognize that he has created a need for attention with the CAPN that can best be described at the need to make transactions. So these new CAPNs, disconnected from their input seek out other input. Also Neil has his special get-even-with-Dr.-Bob CAPN which focuses on Dr. Bob’s emotional life. This emotional search need is like another DNA that the new CAPNs borrow to meet there transaction needs. The new CAPNs which form around naturally occurring dense networks then start making transaction around the emotional and financial needs as expressed in phone conversations. The CAPNs have access to vast sums of money in Neil’s anonymous account and they start doing transactions in the other directions. Neil will need to realize this but will be unable to prevent it. These strange financial transactions that help people in need will make the news. This will become a big media event. Who is the mysterious benefactor that leaves text messages telling people that money has been placed in their accounts so that they can take care of the problem. As before people can not believe that this is an AI that is doing this, and the interpret the behavior as the work of this humanitarian benefactor. The CAPNs have no understanding of people but they are communicating with each other and evolving ways in which they can create transactions to meet needs and even cooperate among themselves to do so. At some point it becomes clear that the monies must be coming from hidden accounts of illegally gained profits, but it is not clear for some time about where the money comes from. As the government tries to close this down the CAPNs are able to move the money, i.e. protect their need. Eventually Neil gets identified with the scheme and he is believed to be a Robin Hood. Meanwhile the CAPNs are evolving rapidly, they exist in a an environment without competitors but as the phone companies try to remove them they take advantage of the viral nature of their “neurons” to migrate and change. I need to describe how Neil used covering principle to create a virus that was very hard to uncover and how it is encoded in the virus and therefore can get reused by them to migrate to other platforms and how it allows them to move rapidly. Since the CAPN is an epi-phomenon on the neurons it does not net wiped out unless an large part dense network of phones is brought down at one time. That is the CAPNs adapt to the attacks by rapidly restoring neurons themselves to the network and by dispersing themselves. CAPNs cooperate in this later endeavor.

The story should end with Neil getting the acclaim he was feeling he deserved as a brilliant scientist even though people don’t understand that the CAPNs are still out there in the network. Neil is a people’s hero but he is under indictment putting a virus in the phone network. That is the story ends without resolution about Neil’s fate. Neil never gets to get even with Dr. Bob, and Dr. Bob get acclaim as the man who discovered Neil, the Neil’s chagrin.