:Well, if this was a comic book, we'd figure out exactly the change we needed to make to all the broken threads leading into the void, which would reconnect them into a living part of Vanyel's computing fabric.:

:I suspect that in practice you do some of the same kind of work the last Mindhealer did and see if that renders Vanyel immediately functional, and not do more pending taking a Look at somebody with a functioning lifebond, doing some experiments on nonsapient animals, and - and I'm not even going to try to make up this part as we go along.  It's possible you can do better than the last Mindhealer because you've realized that you are not just trying to steer Vanyel's thoughts away from an emotional trauma, you are trying to steer away tiny cognitions embodied in neural patterns from a responding factor that tries to rebroadcast the signal but ends up breaking it up instead.  But if I were you, I do not think I would be trying to mess around with, like, reversing the spike train encoded in this microthread in hopes that it stops binding to thoughts and steering them into the damaged area.  I mean, even taking into account that 'reverse' is a lossless transformation and that might mean you could put it back afterward if needed, which is why I said 'reverse' rather than 'erase', I still do not think you should try it just yet.  I think you should stick to things that feel intuitive to you and maybe very slightly try to use some of the new knowledge if the cost-benefit ratio seems very good.:

:And before you do THAT you are going to stand up, walk around, have some more tea, and possibly even eat something tasty that I will tell Lissa to get you.:  Thellim has started to catch on to Valdemar Syndrome at this point.

:Well, if this was a comic book, we'd figure out exactly the change we needed to make to all the broken threads leading into the void, which would reconnect them into a living part of Vanyel's computing fabric.:

:I suspect that in practice you do some of the same kind of work the last Mindhealer did and see if that renders Vanyel immediately functional, and not do more pending taking a Look at somebody with a functioning lifebond, doing some experiments on nonsapient animals, and - and I'm not even going to try to make up this part as we go along, we can think of a research agenda at somewhat more leisure than this.  It's possible you can do better than the last Mindhealer because you've realized that you are not just trying to steer Vanyel's thoughts away from an emotional trauma, you are trying to steer away tiny cognitions embodied in neural patterns from a responding factor that tries to rebroadcast the signal but ends up breaking it up instead.  But if I were you, I do not think I would be trying to mess around with, like, reversing the spike train encoded in this microthread in hopes that it stops binding to thoughts and steering them into the damaged area.  I mean, even taking into account that 'reverse' is a lossless transformation and that might mean you could put it back afterward if needed, which is why I said 'reverse' rather than 'erase', I still do not think you should try it just yet.  I think you should stick to things that feel intuitive to you and maybe very slightly try to use some of the new knowledge if the cost-benefit ratio seems very good.:

:And before you do THAT you are going to stand up, walk around, have some more tea, and possibly even eat something tasty that I will tell Lissa to get you.:  Thellim has started to catch on to Valdemar Syndrome at this point.

:Well, if this was a comic book, we'd figure out exactly the change we needed to make to all the broken threads leading into the void, which would reconnect them into a living part of Vanyel's computing fabric.:

:I suspect that in practice you do some of the same kind of work the last Mindhealer did and see if that renders Vanyel immediately functional, and not do more pending taking a Look at somebody with a functioning lifebond, doing some experiments on nonsapient animals, and - and I'm not even going to try to make up this part as we go along, we can think of a research agenda at somewhat more leisure than this.  It's possible you can do better than the last Mindhealer because you've realized that you are not just trying to steer Vanyel's thoughts away from an emotional trauma, you are trying to steer away tiny cognitions embodied in neural patterns from a responding factor that tries to rebroadcast the signal but ends up breaking it up instead.  But if I were you, I do not think I would be trying to mess around with, like, reversing the spike train encoded in this microthread in hopes that it stops binding to thoughts and steering them into the damaged area.  I mean, even taking into account that 'reverse' is a lossless transformation and that might mean you could put it back afterward if needed, which is why I said 'reverse' rather than 'erase', I still do not think you should try it just yet.  I think you should stick to things that feel intuitive to you and your Gift, and maybe slightly try to use some of the new knowledge if the cost-benefit ratio seems very good.  Unless Vanyel still hasn't recovered after a time, and then we speed up our experimentation plans.:

:And before you do THAT you are going to stand up, walk around, have some more tea, and possibly even eat something tasty that I will tell Lissa to get you.:  Thellim has started to catch on to Valdemar Syndrome at this point.