User blog:JWSchmidt/Rules of Observation

Now that I've been explicit about Gohrlay's criminal activity I need to finalize my thinking about the Rules of Observation. Exactly why is Gohrlay a criminal? Gohrlay lives during an interesting time when the Neanderthal population on Earth has almost become extinct. Gohrlay is herself a Neanderthal, but she has been genetically modified so as to have the appearance of a modern human.

Most of the residents of Observer Base are like Gohrlay, but there are a few Neanderthals who have not been genetically engineered in the way that most residents of the Moon have been. The "Rules of Observation" specify that only those Observers who are genetically indistinguishable from Earth's native humans can serve the Observer corps as on-Earth Observers. There is a small but growing population of modern humans at Observer Base. As soon as the Neanderthals do finally go extinct, the modern humans will dominate the Observer corps, but during Gohrlay's time, Anagro is struggling to keep the modern human population on the Moon from exploding and replacing the Neanderthals. Anagro has been struggling with the puzzle of why the Neanderthals have such a limited genetic predisposition towards developing new tools and cultural artifacts and spreading around the world. The main reason is that the Neanderthal brain allows for a rudimentary kind of telepathic communication. The slightly altered modern human brain lost that rudimentary telepathic ability. While selecting for species that are similar to the Huaoshy, the Huaoshy agents like Anagro consistently select against telepathic ability and the Huaoshy have never realized that telepathic communication is possible. Anagro and his fellow robotic agents are linked by means of a sedronic communications system that is similar to having radio transmitters and receivers implanted in their robotic brains, but the Huaoshy have never explored the idea of a biological brain that could use sedronic communications. The Neanderthal sedronic signals are low power and mostly on a different "band" than that used by the Orbho.

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