XX25008 The Analog Sun, Digital Human and Digital Ant V01 211125

 In terms of creative non-fiction writing it helps if a story is used to launch the deeper narrative              


Also known as narrative non-fiction, it generally means describing or telling a true story, events or experiences—and doing so creatively in a narrative way, or through literary or even poetic description. It usually recounts and reflects on a personal narrative, event or experience.

This is my attempt at it below. 

So whilst lying in my deckchair in the sun with the sun’s radiation heating my face up and with an ant running around on a  slab which is soaked with the same radiation my thoughts whilst my eyes are shut wonder if  both of us as living creatures are experiencing the same warming effect of the radiation. Whilst my conscienceness as a salient living thing is analysing the why, what is the ant thinking. Does the ant have any free thoughts ? Or are all its thoughts pre-programmed into its tiny brain ? So then to the sun which as far as we know has no thoughts. The suns not living like me and the ant. The sun is just very hot matter radiating heat that both me and the ant need to live. Its radiation supports plant photosynthesis which ultimately supports both me and the ants food requirements. We both need the air to breathe and we need water to survive. The ant and me once come from the same DNA gnerguc design. I evolved down the mammal  path and the ant down the insect path to become what we are now. A Human and an Ant. So we are a Digital Human and a Digital Ant living under an Analog Sun. Now if we now explore these three entities scientifically it’s going to achieve a major step towards proving consilience. So using future technologies can we manufacture a Digital Human and a Digital Ant exactly like our current biological selves and surviving under an analog sun. 


Scientific / Precise

• “The Sun is a continuous physical system whose outputs resemble analog signals.”

• “The Sun produces naturally continuous variations in energy, similar to an analog source.”

• “While not a device, the Sun behaves like an analog emitter of light and radiation.”


More Casual

• “The Sun acts more like an analog signal source than a digital one.”

• “The Sun gives off smoothly varying energy, much like an analog system.”


Metaphorical / Poetic

• “The Sun speaks in continuous signals, the language of analog systems.”

• “The Sun outputs a seamless stream of energy, like nature’s analog broadcaster.”


If you want, I can refine these further for a specific context (paper, presentation, creative writing, etc.).

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