Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

“If what I was told while in encapsulation was real, ahuman soul is a fifth order condensate. We will detect theirpresence, and any copy that is made, just as the fourth ordercondensate detector discovered the copies of informationbeing made when free will was in operation.”“So are you saying a soul is a fifth order condensate?”Thom asked Ava.“I cannot say it is not,” Ava said, “and that is what I wastold in the presentation I was given while encapsulated.”“So it would follow boson rules and be conserved?”Thom asked.“Unless it decays to a lower order,” Darryl said.“We’ve already shown that thoughts are a fourth ordercondensate,” Thom said.“We don’t have any math for it yet,” Darryl said.“If we did we wouldn’t understand it anyway,” Thomadmitted.It took hours to get them going on that. Darryl just wantedto explore the math of fifth order condensates, Thom wantedto hear about her adventures. She had to use that as a prod toget them going on it. She wasn’t going to tell until she knewif it was real. She had to promise she would tell, real or not.By the time she was ready to call the captain, she wasshocked to find out how late it was, duty hours were overalready. She couldn’t raise him and immediately snapped intoa diagnostic because she knew the captain always kept his543