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Serpent Pit

Life before meaning. 

The precursor to existence, although it is a place of suffering and superficial judgments made real. It is temporary and contains an important lesson. Existence of creativity and free will without an anchor of logic and reason dissolves into foolish pursuit of dopamine. In a place where nothing can be trusted as fact, not only does meaning lose its value but it cannot stand on its own.

Setting

Before Lamina begins to manifest itself into the new universe, there’s a testing ground. A stack of wobbling disc worlds that are always renewing themselves.

This area is called the Opsin Lens and exists before the Opsin Portal is activated.

Thoughts / Judgment

The universe, Lamina, has a thought:

Multiple points of origin exist:

The Judgment

That’s impossible! No existence can have three beginnings, there’s only one way to be born. There is however many ways to die. Perhaps these “beginnings” are what follows the death of its precursors. For it to be a true beginning it would have to come from something singular.

Lamina’s Reaction:

An interesting point has been made. I will entertain this for a little while. You have asked two things: One questioning of what precedes the death of place and being. The other being that there can only be one designer and that all life traces back to it.

Character Assumed Reality

The Sirians

Dystopian Assumed Reality

Multiple origins could mean the universe is a simulation created by multiple beings.

Beings who either believe themselves to be deities or want to be held up as if they were. 

We will make some idols then.

They introduce polytheism with the erasure of memory and knowledge that could disprove them and get in the way of their agenda.

First by destroying critical thinking, judgment between right and wrong, having to rely on choice of what to believe. Where fact and fiction become intertwined and reality eventually dissolves.

Dissolving into “Everything is a lie, therefore I will do what brings me pleasure and avoid what causes pain”

Life becomes a dopamine chase

With this assumption an “Empty Seed” emerges.

An Empty Seed is either a mystery or a question that becomes shrouded with information. Not a direct answer but instead the offering to speculate.

The question: Is there hope?

If Life Is To Continue

The assumed answer to this question is that the only hope is to trigger a response from the universe itself.

Dopamine → Norepinephrine

Assumed Reality:

A social climate in constant fight or flight feels alive when it has a victory and ignites passion. Those who experience defeat will continue to keep fighting until they have the rush of victory. Warfare exists everywhere and people secretly like it. Why? Because it feels like justice.

Society will keep going waiting for the “little guy” to finally have his win. 

A dual system is too hard to control. Inform the public that a division in the system would lead to rioting in the streets, chaos, anarchy. That it would lead to a polarizing radicalized society and in order to protect ourselves we need to adopt a one world system. It’s for their safety and stability.

Can we make a profit from the public concern?

Extraterrestrial life is interested let’s have the idols return or just the idea of them

NE is released into the synaptic cleft, binds to adrenergic receptors (α and β), and mediates physiological effects.

Adrenergic receptors are G-protein coupled receptors

They receive signals from outside the cell

The receptor changes shape and activates a G-protein inside the cell

Alpha (α)1 - G-protein type: Gq

norepinephrine binds to α₁-adrenergic receptor

Gq is activated

GDP on Gq is replaced with GTP

Activation of phospholipase C

PLC splits a membrane lipid called PIP₂ into:

IP₃ (inositol triphosphate) → releases Ca²⁺ from internal stores

DAG (diacylglycerol) → activates protein kinase C (PKC)

Gq → PLC → IP₃ + DAG → Ca²⁺ + PKC → cell response

Mainly triggers intracellular calcium signaling

2- G-protein type: Gi 

G-protein that works with GPCRs

The “i” in Gi stands for “inhibitory”, because it inhibits certain enzymes inside the cell

Main function: decrease cAMP levels in the cell

norepinephrine binds to α₂-adrenergic receptor

GDP on Gi is replaced with GTP

Inhibition of adenylate cyclase (AC)

Gi stops adenylate cyclase from converting ATP → cAMP

Lower cAMP → less activation of protein kinase A (PKA) → reduces cell activity

Opposite reaction

Beta (β) - G-protein type: Gs

stimulatory G-protein

Main function: increase cAMP levels, which then activates protein kinase A (PKA) and triggers cellular responses

Signal binds to GPCR

G-protein activates other proteins or enzymes

adenylate

cyclase

phospholipase C

to produce secondary messengers (like cAMP, IP₃, or DAG)

The secondary messengers trigger the cell to do something

Key Features

7-transmembrane structure: GPCRs cross the cell membrane 7 times

Can use different G-proteins for different responses

Norepinephrine → Epinephrine

When your body senses stress, danger, or excitement

Produced in the adrenal medulla

Brain detects stress

Hypothalamus activates the sympathetic nervous system

Sympathetic nerves stimulate the adrenal medulla

Adrenal medulla releases epinephrine into blood

acts like a neural-to-hormone amplifier

Instead of sending a signal to one small area, it floods the whole body with the signal

The final step uses:

PNMT enzyme

SAM (S-adenosylmethionine) as a methyl donor

Epinephrine → Metanephrine

….

Epinephrine → 3-Methoxy-4-hydroxy-mandelic acid → VMA 

….

Thought / Judgement

Lamina doesn’t think like a human and its speech and reasoning come from the biology

Using dopamine to design dialogue

An argument over the assumed reality and allowing its continuation.

Lamina thinks:

We can remain distant in our reasoning but there needs to be dialogue across the gaps in where we stand.

The condition of life and social climate, however, has become a social ultimatum. Demanding a fight or flight tension. 

There is still in existence using this climate to increase pressure to introduce an awakening, meaning that there is the cry for disclosure.

An awakening that is not just spiritual but all across the board. And the opening of pathways to let in necessary elements.

Judgment:

How can you expect such maturity in a society that has become a source of hostility and ultimatum? Can they even handle disclosure while in a state of fight or flight? I highly doubt they can handle such a thing.

Lamina thinks:

One thing that needs to be made clear is that we can have dialogue that doesn’t attempt to dismantle the building blocks of the individual or reprogram them. Instead, the dialogue is about communication across gaps between different understandings on a particular subject.

Also, could this fight or flight climate be an addiction to anticipation?

Anticipation for something outside of the ordinary to finally happen? This outside of the ordinary to align with… for lack of better terms groups outside mainstream society? 

There exists in all things a switch between remaining in anticipation while they are asleep. To be awake, this means more than just knowing things. It’s instead the activation of an internal switch that changes what was embedded in a person’s makeup. Not through force but instead being awake means to be internally activated.

Judgment:

If people were to wake up it would then dismantle the long standing systems of life as we know it. And society has become comfortable with a system of anticipation and adrenaline.

Like you said before we need dialogue that crosses gaps between systems not the dismantling and reprogramming. What you are suggesting is for society to be introduced to a way of life entirely different while not attempting to erase the building blocks of all that was ever known.

It not an issue of “The world needs to change” but instead be introduced to something completely new. In an existence of free will then people would have the freedom to choose a system they prefer to align with. We can’t have a natural polarizing society that at the same time only knows one system.

Wouldn’t a solution be for there to exist more than one framework to allow ACTUAL choice instead of the illusion of one?

The assumed reality is an insult to the intelligence of its inhabitants. Does it truly believe it can continue to stand while anchoring into nothing? The preach of free will yet when given the opportunity to apply it the current state feels threatened?

Is this a dark joke?

A society that cannot handle a choice between culture. To choose if it wants to be domesticated or if it would like to offer the alternative: a hunter gatherer? A society that doesn’t wait and beg to be rewarded, but the option to adopt: Go and pursue and bring the prize home.

Alpha (α)1 - G-protein type: Gq

norepinephrine binds to α₁-adrenergic receptor

Gq is activated

GDP on Gq is replaced with GTP

Activation of phospholipase C

PLC splits a membrane lipid called PIP₂ into:

IP₃ (inositol triphosphate) → releases Ca²⁺ from internal stores

DAG (diacylglycerol) → activates protein kinase C (PKC)

Gq → PLC → IP₃ + DAG → Ca²⁺ + PKC → cell response

Precursors to Dopamine

Tracing life back to reality and a new world to be established

L-Tyrosine

L-DOPA

L-Phenylalanine

Phenylalanine → Tyrosine → L-DOPA → Dopamine

Thought / Judgement

Lamina Thinks

Let’s get to the bottom of the question of polytheism and monotheism. You cannot expect a species to simply accept multiple creation stories as fact and have them argue over something without all the information. So let’s backtrack and find an answer

Judgment

I will accept the challenge

Precursors

precursor of coelenterazine:

Coelenterazine is derived from three amino acids:

Tyrosine (Tyr)

Phenylalanine (Phe)

Tryptophan (Trp)

assembled in a cyclization reaction to form the imidazopyrazinone core of coelenterazine

means an imidazole fused to a pyrazinone

imidazole rings are usually built from the amino acid histidine

pyrazinone is built from:

Phenylalanine and Tyrosine

Tyrosine (Tyr)

Tyrosine is synthesized from phenylalanine

Phenylalanine (Phe), Tryptophan (Trp)

Phenylalanine is synthesized via the shikimate pathway

The pathway begins with two simple metabolic intermediates:

Phosphoenolpyruvate (PEP)

From glycolysis

Erythrose-4-phosphate (E4P)

From the pentose phosphate pathway

Glycolysis 

Primary Precursor: Glucose

precursor of glucose is glucose-6-phosphate (G6P)

gluconeogenesis

Upstream precursors that produce glucose

molecules that feed into gluconeogenesis:

pentose phosphate pathway

Glucose-6-phosphate (G6P)

gluconeogenesis

Precursors

to ATP

chemical precursors:

ADP (Adenosine diphosphate)

Pi (inorganic phosphate)

AMP (Adenosine monophosphate)

De novo synthesis pathway (how AMP is built from scratch)

AMP is synthesized through the purine biosynthesis pathway

AMP Precursor:

IMP (Inosine Monophosphate)

Ribose-5-phosphate (R5P)

Glucose-6-phosphate (G6P)

Gluconeogenesis