Thellim leans into the bond more, trying to hold up the part where she maintains the unfamiliar-to-Melody search structure, while still letting Melody look around at things.  It's a more complicated task and a strain for Thellim, but she can handle it, she thinks, Melody is the one who's been doing most of the heavy lifting here.

But even Thellim can see the search results are too much to look at, and need to be narrowed.  Thellim puts mental parentheses around the previous metaphorical search term she used, and asks that their foreground attention be focused on those functions that appear in more than one such minimal set of recursive functions; the original search term's results can be relegated to a slight background emphasis.

The single narrow thread running through everything is much more prominent, now, and some particular stretches of fabric it's embedded in.  The search term is a little harder to hold in mind, but the search results should be a lot easier for Melody to go through.  :Melody, does that thread - make sense to you?  It doesn't make immediate sense to me.:  It's not just a particular spike train, and a significant part of Thellim's focus is now distracted.

Thellim leans into the bond more, trying to hold up the part where she maintains the unfamiliar-to-Melody search structure, while still letting Melody look around at things.  It's a more complicated task and a strain for Thellim, but she can handle it, she thinks, Melody is the one who's been doing most of the heavy lifting here.

The search results are also too much to look at, and need to be narrowed.  Thellim puts mental parentheses around the previous metaphorical search term she used, and asks that their foreground attention be focused on those functions that appear in more than one such minimal set of recursive functions; the original search term's results can be relegated to a slight background emphasis.

The single narrow thread running through everything is much more prominent, now, and some particular stretches of fabric it's embedded in.  The search term is a little harder to hold in mind, but the search results should be a lot easier for Melody to go through.  :Melody, does that thread - make sense to you?  It doesn't make immediate sense to me.:  It's not just a particular spike train, and a significant part of Thellim's focus is now distracted.

Thellim leans into the bond more, trying to hold up the part where she maintains the unfamiliar-to-Melody search structure, while still letting Melody look around at things.  It's a more complicated task and a strain for Thellim, but she can handle it, she thinks, Melody is the one who's been doing most of the heavy lifting here.

The search results are also too much to look at, and need to be narrowed.  Thellim puts mental parentheses around the previous metaphorical search term she used, and asks that their foreground attention be focused on those functions that appear in more than one such minimal set of recursive functions; the original search term's results can be relegated to a slight background emphasis.

The single narrow thread running through everything is much more prominent, now, and some particular stretches of fabric it's embedded in.

This search term is a little harder to hold in mind, but the search results should be a lot easier for Melody to go through.  :Melody, does that thread - make sense to you?  It doesn't make immediate sense to me.:  It's not just a particular spike train, and a significant part of Thellim's focus is now distracted.

Thellim leans into the bond more, trying to hold up the part where she maintains the unfamiliar-to-Melody search structure, while still letting Melody look around at things.  It's a more complicated task and a strain for Thellim, but she can handle it, she thinks, Melody is the one who's been doing most of the heavy lifting here.

These search results are also too much to look at, and need to be narrowed.  Thellim puts mental parentheses around the previous metaphorical search term she used, and asks that their foreground attention be focused on those functions that appear in more than one such minimal set of recursive functions; the original search term's results can be relegated to a lesser background emphasis.

The single narrow thread running through everything is much more prominent, now, and some particular stretches of fabric it's embedded in.

This search term is a little harder to hold in mind, but the search results should be a lot easier for Melody to go through.  :Melody, does that thread - make sense to you?  It doesn't make immediate sense to me.:  It's not just a particular spike train, and a significant part of Thellim's focus is now distracted.