# to consider alien fictions those generated by 'big scientists' in ir everyday research an amateur post-modem theory term referring to the daily beyond-strangeness of consciousness / realty non dramatic incommensurable inexpressibly incomprehensible astonishingly anomalous aporetic radially displaced and divergent phantasmatical and absurdly paradoxical rootless autonomous interzonal pre-ontologically incomplete or partially unconstituted irreconcilably estranged inaccessible ambiguous contested undecided perhaps even unknowable incongruous dissonance far outside understanding or myths of rationality or reason formidable to explain assimilate naturalize absorb incorporate co opt factor in classify or objectify into standard models values paradigms or representations symbolic andor otherwise neon drenched darkly visionary and extraordinarily xenomorphic vibrant bioelectric blue flux lightning lashes at the ecstatic hyperreal edge of being big scientist rnd hypercorporation: questions previously thought to be a matter solely for merely empirical scientific debate such as 'how to play big science' have now thankfully attracted themselves back into the nonlinear orbit of partially unformed wonderfully chaotic pre ontological inquiry empathizing chaos and fragmentation one idea rather is to help researchers play improperly to un-domesticate all too neatly plausible assumptions with impossible hypotheses while big science and the associated 'republic of bob' where it appears a common practice do not exist they may both be seen or treated as imaginary play-state enjoyed simply by pretending that it does through the artificial use of artistic pretence an evolving metaphor without an object / a quick polite reply / request to join in with fellow researchers while one is busy undergoing intense rnd typical example exchange / call and response researcher y: hi - what's that weird-cool stuff your doing researcher x: oh you know - 'big science' researcher y: what researcher x: not sure let's say we play and find out researcher y: um ok sure despite never quite knowing / understanding 'bs' or even feeling the need for it to exist many researchers of big science enjoy such a truly collaborative shared fiction space / neurospectacle one standard myth about the near-future origins of bs is that it was always just another bad in-joke among anonymous geeks just another way of thinking accidentally expressed by a group of university-dulled students in the deep post-industrial north as a way to explain to themselves what they're doing trivial language experiments featuring polysyllabic truisms useless arbitrary efforts and midnight shenanigans to overcome 'terminal existential boredom' this potentially bright and existentially depressed group were witnesses to the rapid emergence and uncontrolled evolution of increasingly odd and useful ways to describe ir odd actions or performances 'in-scene' as they put it they soon realised however that whatever they tried or talked about was just plain bs - that they understood what they were doing only superficially eventually they asked: look why don't we for example just start 'pretending to pretend' to be or act as (say for instance) hot proto / post scientific alien researchers from a near-future alternative dimension they thought that viewing themselves as these imaginary 'big scientists' might provide a much needed philosophical and aesthetic focus to nightly searches for 'maximum fun' defining big science in-scene: in which one thinks of 'big science' as an absurdist strange imaginary play-state one is semi consciously pretending to pretend to play right now in which researchers are humalien alien research scientist from the near-future performing vital bleeding edge blue skies rnd into vast experimental 'projects' (say the everyday beyond strangeness of consciousness / realty) consider big science as your favorite neural software toy used for such research about big science 'researchers': consider your inner big scientist researcher a multiple use public domain character or thought form an ongoing private investigation / electronic meditation into say memory identity and psychology emerging as test transmissions from the information sea researchers form elite forward-research teams or crews who go on epic artistic vision quests to the outer limits of rnd consider your researcher's virtual ebrain as a launch pad for the various odd projects it helps evolve - realty pseudocode fragments of its parallel universe on using big science: consider bs a kind of alien vision mode that helps researchers think about say consciousness / realty when researchers generally no idea what they're doing andor realize they've little but loose bunches of ideas therefore 'big science': a way to encounter play with and survive a rapidly evolving and thankfully out of control present a way to express through coded symbol spaces the acutely psychedelic sci-fi feel experience or unique state of 'now' researchers or big scientists treat big science as a linguistic mirage / an open art platform / live action role play / an abstract research engine or alternative to scientific models dark virtual arg or mmoarrpg // republic of bob