Calderis he/him Posted May 21, 2017 Report Share Posted May 21, 2017 Up until now I've thought of each Sleepless as a single entity cognitively controlling the Hordelings that make up their physical being. The Cognitive Realm is just as location dependent as the physical realm, so it seems that the Sleepless would need to be one of the closest entities we've seen to the spiritual realm for their cognitive aspect to reach multiple locations simultaneously. If the Spiritual filters through the Cognitive to the Physical. And only the Spiritual Is independent of Location, I believe the Sleepless are a primarily Spiritual entity. This allows their existence to reach out to multiple places without breaking their minds. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Extesian he/him Posted May 21, 2017 Report Share Posted May 21, 2017 3 hours ago, Calderis said: Up until now I've thought of each Sleepless as a single entity cognitively controlling the Hordelings that make up their physical being. The Cognitive Realm is just as location dependent as the physical realm, so it seems that the Sleepless would need to be one of the closest entities we've seen to the spiritual realm for their cognitive aspect to reach multiple locations simultaneously. If the Spiritual filters through the Cognitive to the Physical. And only the Spiritual Is independent of Location, I believe the Sleepless are a primarily Spiritual entity. This allows their existence to reach out to multiple places without breaking their minds. Seems sensible to me, and I feel this WoB works with it Quote Q: Could you spike a Hordling? A: Yes. Spike means getting something out, Spike means get(ting?) something in? I think that both is viable. I think you can, yeah. Q: If you would spike something in, would the whole Aimian get maybe an Allomantic ability? A: Mostly, this would probably change the Hordling. And they may lose contact to it. It could fiddle with the connection to the point that they can no longer link. That's gonna be my answer right now, that spiking a Hordling would separate it from the group mind Spiking is primarily affecting the Spiritual Realm (magically at least), so separating it from a group mind that us based in the Spiritual Realm would make sense. Also reminds me of the Parshendi at least tapping into the Spiritual Realms through the Rhythms. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Sovereign Posted May 22, 2017 Report Share Posted May 22, 2017 (edited) Somewhat related but also no related Sleepless-Realmic WoB: Quote INTERVIEW: Dec 6th, 2016 Herald Washington Library Center-AU Tour (Paraphrased) QUESTION So ever since the Sleepless I’ve been wondering about what sentience is in the Cosmere. How would a Sleeplessmanifest on the Cognitive Realm? BRANDON SANDERSON That’s a good question, that’ll RAFO. But they are a single consciousness, but they would argue that all your cells are independent of you. So they are cells that can move around. They’re really fun, they started in a non-cosmere book when I was 22. Obviously a bit inspired by Fire Upon the Deep, one of my favourite science fiction books. And I read that book and I’m like, ‘group consciousnesses are cool!’ what if you had a species that was made up of--not like an Ender’s Game one, but like each swarm was an individual and they could breed and evolve their own things to do different stuff. So each of these little Hordelings is what I call them, but that might change since we’ve got cremling now. So each of these little bits is bred for a specific purpose, feed the swarm and stuff like that. So they’ve got a all kinds of stuff going on. TAGS Sleepless, Cognitive Realm, Edited May 22, 2017 by The Sovereign Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farnsworth Posted May 24, 2017 Report Share Posted May 24, 2017 What would be interesting is to see what they are like in the spiritual realm. Are they a single entity? Or are they many different entities with powerful Connection bonds to each other? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluedeath33 he/him Posted May 25, 2017 Report Share Posted May 25, 2017 Sounds well reasoned to me, have an upvote! I'd say its even more likely since we've seen that Connection mostly relates to the Spiritual and there consciousness is clearly "Connected" to the Hordelings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yata he/him Posted May 25, 2017 Report Share Posted May 25, 2017 17 hours ago, Figberts said: What would be interesting is to see what they are like in the spiritual realm. Are they a single entity? Or are they many different entities with powerful Connection bonds to each other? The WoB before suggest the Sleepless are a single entity Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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