iFunny by Aaron Louie

John Larson

Tom Dobrowolsky

fig. 510-1 The many-faceted approach of the many-tentacled Information Beast (IB). Note that the number of tentacles is not fixed; the amount varies situationally. The tentacles, thus, ought to be thought of as conceptual devices rather than finite, physical appendages. These devices, then, continue to filter the situational aether for bits of data plankton which the IBs subsequently refine and synthesize into information.

Tom Dobrowolsky

. fig. 510-2 Interpretation and cognition within the belly of the Information Beast (IB). Refer to fig. 510-1 in order to orient this mechanism within the larger physical structure of the IB. While the mechanism diagrammed here is located entirely within the IB's coelom, the monkey that operates the organ-grinding mechanism is a symbiont living externally. The organ-grinder itself is a part of the ISB.