Clairvoyant Alien: File-6UXI

Narrated Salk-scientist account of a potential (or imagined!) alien visitor encounter that stirs his interests in 'Earth' disparity.

Something quite extra-ordinary about the iconic Western sci-fi/horror media-franchise Alien is the way it unnerves our basic Earth-species sensibility about the realism behind discovery of a non-human intelligent species that is in no conceivable way friendly or negotiable and requires evasion/challenge. This story is the culmination of a rather long-time interest I've held (from horror-comics fanfare!) regarding casting of these 'dark' faerie-tales through the 'pseudo-science' lens of intelligence under severe threat, which is very different (IMO) from Apocalypse/Asteroid stories. 

DISCLAIMER: I've no 'official' ties or association(s) with the media-franchise cited in this work of sci-fi/comics fanfiction or the scientific bodies/pursuits referenced and present this only as a work of 'dramatized' documentary. 

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I'd worked at the Salk Institute for some time after graduating from Dartmouth with a PhD in cognition-sciences. I've been developing special chess-stalemate decision-making scenario algorithms for the design of intelligent/A.I. computing cognition systems for the advancement in the study of consciousness and nervous-system prioritization/intentionality 'game-theory' calculations! Some of this stuff had of course been cast in various sci-fi/A.I. media (entertainment!) regarding 'super-computers' and 'brainiac-aliens' challenging human minds, and the Salk became my lab-haven (really). 

My name's Amlan Satan, and I'm considered to be quite an intelligentsia in the emerged/modern field of cognition-computing (A.I.-design) science(s). I've been working on methods of integrating stalemate-chess (tie/draw/no-win decision) arrays for piece-position competitive side-movements that represent decision-making complexity regarding consensual equilibrium between two intentional 'minds' (or computing decision-making actors!). A stalemate-chess condition of course symbolizes various politics-IQ complexities like peace-treaties and declared cease-fires between conflicting parties/individuals which parallel 'real-world' complications/settings (sectarian!) like the Cold War or Northern Ireland (United Kingdom). Developing these stalemate-chess condition(s) applications for cognition-science(s) modelings of decision-making sophistication relevant for A.I. self-conscious intentionality 'machines' (or robots!) drew me to a 'revelation' that had nothing to do with computers/machines and which forced me to re-evaluate the assumed 'simplified conveniences' of modern-era social-media tech/toy/gadget worldwide pedestrian use of window-access/portals to user-interface/interaction matrices ('Facebook-IQ'). I became a Facebook-commenting 'user' of the modern life (really) with all this computer-convenience consciousness diagram artistry!

The 'revelation' I refer to had nothing to do (really) with computers/machines of modern time but of a startling Cali-encounter with a strange light from the sky at night-time. I was at a shopping-center after-work on a weeknight when I saw what was a UFO from above shining down a special 'spotlight' onto the store before I walked in, and I realized the 'alien-ship' was trying to 'grab' my attention, perhaps because it'd recognized/cataloged me as a special cognition-sciences developer of 'advanced consciousness' (alien/robotics) systems at Salk. I'd never forget that strange ship-light from the sky shining down on the shopping-center that night.

When I went home that night, I decided to open my Vaio-laptop and start playing some of my 'usual' weeknight online-chess games or against the computer/myself when I suddenly/startingly realized that my computer-interface 'opponent' was perhaps some kind of A.I. 'entity' or perhaps an 'alien-intelligence/consciousness' (perhaps the very-same derived-relation of the alien-ship whose light shined down on the shopping-store I'd just left!). I decided to play this 'stranger-opponent' in the chess game online that night and (ironically!) drew a stalemate-conditions play-set reflective of some of the intentionality 'game-theory' modelings I'd been working on at Salk that week! How did this 'stranger-opponent' know of my work(s) and why was he drawn my stalemate-chess?

GIRLFRIEND: I think you're daydreaming because of the latent-stress with all your work with chess-IQ, darlin'.

ME: I know you're perhaps more than likely right, sweets, but something about that computer-chess opponent felt 'alien'.

GIRLFRIEND: Alien, you say?
ME: Yeah...like it wasn't just a 'cool-customer' playing games for Facebook-IQ, sweets.

So, the next week, I decided to take a walk in the forest by myself to clear my head, and I thought more-and-more what my girlfriend advised about 'keeping-cool' despite all this workload regarding chess-IQ complication(s). However, right then, when I thought I'd 'coolly' decided that the stalemate-chess IQ computer-opponent I played against the week before was simply a 'tricky customer' and no 'alien-messenger' linked to what I thought I'd witnessed as a UFO-nightlight from the sky at the shopping-center after-work, I beheld the figure/visage of a half-invisible 'alien-dragon' being humanoid, of rather large size, holding onto a forest tree and glowing a strange half-blue light, and it wore a strange warlike face-mask/helmet! I threw a stone at its metal helmet and then ran away from that forest and wrote in my diary, "Me thinks these 'daydreams' are taking the form(s) of 'serious' alien-world depression!"

ALIEN: I'd like to play you again in chess, Salk-scientist of Earth.
ME: So...you're either someone playing tricks and exploiting my frail mind or the very-same alien I've been encountering!

ALIEN: Indeed.

ME: Why're you drawing stalemate-chess IQ ideations with me, if I may be so bold as to ask you?

ALIEN: If I'm the alien you speak of, Salk-scientist of Earth, maybe this is a mind-game for invasion-policy.

ME: Aha...you wish to challenge me in stalemate-chess and if I achieve it (a tie!), you'll consent to a non-invasion policy?
ALIEN: Doesn't this all sound...rational...to you, scientist?
ME: I suppose; let's proceed with this 'stalemate' challenge then, eh?
ALIEN: Excellence.

Miraculously enough, I'd managed to 'wrought' that stalemate-chess condition against this mysterious 'computer-opponent' who claimed he'd been the 'alien' I'd been encountering. He was some kind of clairvoyant with invisibility-powers, as he joked while we played our challenge-game online, and he wished to see if a stalemate could be wrought to warrant a non-invasion peace-treaty between 'intentional minds' for both our benefit(s). When I used a swift rook-bishop double-line offense-balance to counter his 'furious' queen-knight advancing combo for array, we both conceded stalemate/draw and he explained this human 'triumph' would compel him to seek a 'secret' isolationist-exile permanent residency status in the Earth-ocean abyss with no intention/blueprint of any future human-civilization contact (whatsoever!). I felt the strange sense of 'horror-relief' when I sensed all along that this alien, though 'equal' to me in chess-skills/IQ and stalemate-acuity for 'game-theory' politics of some sort, was far stronger (and more violent!) than me, willing to use his warlike 'helmet' stance/posture to engage in 'laser-decapitations' and warlock marches for bloody-murder! We both agreed therefore that his stalemate-chess wrought 'consent' to 'resign' to the deep ocean-abyss of Earth as an isolationist-exile with no future contact with us was the 'intelligent' resolution. I still wonder to this day what kind of underwater 'city-labyrinth' that stranger-alien (if he really was indeed real!) built for himself (and/or his species-comembers!).

SALK: So, Satan, you're developing 'game-labyrinth' designs for new Alien video-game/media?
ME: It's a Xmas-market for cyber-gaming, sir, and alien-storyboards for youth-adventures is a modern marvel (really).
SALK: You're 'adept' at video-games with laser-gun fighting and 'alien' storyboards/environments, eh?
ME: Big fan of alien/horror-comics and cyber-gaming environments and have been since Dartmouth, sir.
SALK: Excellence...
ME: Right; also, this will provide some 'cool-PR' for us 'nerdy-Salk' docs tying with youth-cyber activity/network.
SALK: Sure; all sounds...worthy/legible (carry-on!).
ME: Sometimes I get the feeling all this 'cyber-rationalism' for game-theory intentionality/user-friendly IQ is self-willed.
SALK: Hey, Satan, remember that modern 'human' minds always tend to lean towards consciousness-stances for adventure.
ME: Thank you, sir!

GIRLFRIEND: So, how's the new 'sideshow' job working on Alien video-games for Microsoft/Xbox, darlin'?

ME: Very cool stuff...and helps me 'forget' that entire 'alien-opponent' in computer-chess and 'alien' daydreams, sweets.

GIRLFRIEND: You still think that 'alien' opponent, claiming your stalemate-tie was a 'political' board, was real (not prank)?

ME: Sometimes I do...hey, at least this video-game stuff's been 'easing' me away from all the chess-A.I. Salk-work, sweets.

GIRLFRIEND: At least you've no plans to dive-deep into the Earth-ocean abyss to see if there's that 'real' alien down there!

ME: Ha.

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