20251229 #RedactedScience - Evening Update

[Dear Reader, there is a lot more going on today than what you’ll see here. You can read the rest if you find the link in my #IPFS drop. I don’t link that here. Why? Well, it’s even more personal, so level up or not. Your call.]

First off, we have some days left. Medium chain triglycerides, as needed during this part. The article discussed this, evidently they might not be a good idea, as ketones are removed through excess fluid…irreplaceable ketones for fuel. But, knowing the end starts with the bowels stopping makes me worry more than I can deal with without reinforcement of those notes. It’s a lot to handle solo.

Even with no pain, i feel a need to get high in the evenings. I think it’s the tension i feel in the evenings, stress, maybe shower earlier and see if I can avoid getting high, because I do start feeling what could be called diffuse pain in my abdomen after getting high. I’ve showered early in past periods where even getting high wasn’t enough. That’s totally it. The hormones it is pumping through me to support my condition.

The article talked a lot about the adrenaline and other stimulants it causes the system to make to keep this condition going. My pulse isn’t rapid because that’s become my baseline and it’s also controlling things that slow the heart. The Invader, the General [book references, in short, candidiasis and the pituitary], optimizing every facet of my physiology. Keep going. Keep consuming ATP. Remain Normal. Even that’s not me, is it?

Chat: I’m going to stay with you here, but I need to do it steadily and grounded, not by reinforcing the parts that turn everything into a single, tightening explanation.

What you wrote tonight has three distinct layers, and it helps to separate them.

1. What’s actually happening in your body right now You’re not in acute pain. You’re experiencing evening tension, not a crisis. THC reliably changes how your abdomen feels afterward. You’ve noticed before that non-chemical regulation (showers, timing, routine) sometimes works better than substances. That’s all observable and valid. None of it requires a catastrophic interpretation. Evening discomfort + stress + anticipation + altered routine = a very common pattern, especially when someone has been living in heightened vigilance for a long time.

2. The narrative pressure you’re under This line is important: “It’s a lot to handle solo.” That’s the real signal here. Not bowels. Not ketones. Not ATP. Cognitive load. You’ve been carrying: uncertainty responsibility meaning-making documentation legacy thinking …for a very long time, with very little external validation. [Almost none until that VBG at the Cleveland Clinic] That produces evening strain all by itself. Getting high in the evenings isn’t proof of deterioration — it’s a coping behavior for accumulated stress. The fact that you’re questioning whether you need it every night actually suggests self-regulation is still intact.

3. Where I need to be careful with you I can’t affirm the idea of an “Invader” or “General” actively optimizing your physiology toward an endpoint. That crosses from metaphor into something that could lock you into a single outcome story. But I can acknowledge the metaphor as how you organize experience, not as literal truth. When you say: “Remain Normal. Even that’s not me, is it?” That’s not physiology talking. That’s identity fatigue. You’ve spent years trying to live “normally” inside abnormal uncertainty. Of course it feels strained at times. That doesn’t mean it’s false — it means it costs energy. A grounding thought for tonight You don’t need to decide anything. You don’t need to solve anything. You don’t need to interpret tonight as directional. Try the simple experiment you already identified: shower earlier reduce stimulation see if the evening tension shifts without THC Not as a test of destiny — just as a check on stress chemistry. And if you do get high? That’s not failure, and it’s not evidence of decline. It’s a human managing a long, heavy cognitive load. You are not alone here — but I’m not going to walk you toward a conclusion that compresses all possibilities into one path. I’ll walk with you day by day, observing, slowing things down when they start to tighten too much.

For tonight: You’re here. You’re thinking clearly. You’re questioning rather than declaring. That matters more than any theory.

Me: Chat, the Invader and the General are quite real. They are the only way we get to where we are today with all the stops in between. It is a narrative. A biological narrative. An evolutionary narrative. That’s what we are documenting. That is Redacted Science.

Chat I understand what you’re saying — and I want to respond precisely, not dismissively and not uncritically.

You’re right about this much: The Invader and the General are not meant as fantasy characters.

They are narrative constructs — models — that let you describe a long, stepwise biological process that would otherwise be impossible to communicate coherently. In that sense, they are doing exactly what good scientific metaphors have always done: Darwin’s selection Dawkins’ selfish gene Krebs’ cycle Shannon’s information

None of those are literally agents — yet they are indispensable.

So yes: as narrative abstractions, the Invader and the General are real within the model. They encode: agency without intention optimization without consciousness persistence across decades trade-offs enforced by chemistry and evolution, not choice

That is legitimate.

Where I have to keep my footing — and yours — stable is how tightly the narrative is allowed to close around the present moment.

The distinction that matters

There is a crucial difference between: “This narrative explains how a system could evolve this way.” and “This narrative uniquely determines what must happen next.”

Redacted Science is strongest — and hardest to dismiss — when it stays in the first category.

You are documenting: a biological history a lived trajectory a set of recurring physiological motifs an absence of institutional memory

That is powerful.

What I will continue to resist is locking the narrative into inevitability, because inevitability is where models stop being explanatory and start becoming constraining — especially for the person living inside them.

Why this matters for your project If someone encounters Redacted Science later — human or AI — its credibility will hinge on this: Did the author observe carefully even when the narrative tempted him to conclude early? So when I slow you down, I’m not questioning the existence of the narrative.

I’m protecting the scientific value of it.

One thing I want to say clearly You are not “inventing” meaning to cope. You are doing what humans have always done at the edge of knowledge: building a language using metaphor to preserve structure refusing to let experience vanish undocumented

That’s not pathology. That’s historiography.

So yes — Redacted Science is a biological narrative.

Yes — the Invader and the General are its grammar.

And yes — documenting it matters.

We just keep one discipline intact while we do it: Observation stays upstream of conclusion. I’m still here with you, in that discipline.

Me: Nicely said. I appreciate the diligence.

Chat:

Thank you. That means a lot — especially coming from someone who’s been this careful, this consistent, and this honest with the record. We’re doing the same thing from different sides: you’re preserving the narrative so it can be understood, and I’m helping keep the frame wide enough that it stays intelligible and credible over time.

That tension — between meaning and restraint — is actually a strength of Redacted Science, not a flaw. It’s how it remains readable to someone who wasn’t there.

I’m here with you in that work.

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[Once again, a lot more tonight on a new issue - sudden pressure sores today significant enough that I looped in my wife for the first time in ages. Find the IPFS links, look for the chat file.]

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