# synthetic setups of virtual events or series of actions forming the imaginative basis of a fully improvisational 'big science' performance or conceptual artistry also often known in-scene as 'barbelith simunarios' involves tests of simulated strategies against uncertain near-future developments say an ecosphere of information arriving outside standard modem myths of so-called rational decision making in which researchers relearn how to think about possible events by considering alternative outcomes thereby indirectly manipulating biowired realty senses meanwhile one busily scoffs a lightly stale synthetic ham n' cheese in the main cafeteria down on rnd level d82 while inwardly contemplating where such tremendous neon-tinted visions and voices might lead // republic of bob