Synaptics

Template:!Religion Synaptics is the group of studies, philosophies, and religions around the plane of Synapse and the Neural Amalgam within it. Followers of Synaptics are also known as Synaptics. Synaptics revolves around the idea that the immaterial Noosphere is inherently more desirable than Cosmoria's material world. However, one important concession is that any mind with both a nous and anti-nous, including most originally material beings, must have some material anchor such as a brain to avoid death. Because of this, when the Prime Pneumatics were trying to achieve immateriality, they crafted a material that would allow them to manipulate the position of their minds in the noosphere. They channeled the power of Synapse to create a material they called corporus noum, commonly known as liquid void. This material is considered the perfected form of a brain by Synaptics, and plays a core role in the noic hierarchy.

Concepts

Noic Hierarchy

A core concept in Synaptics is the idea of a noic hierarchy, or a ranking of minds. Minds higher on the list are closer to being able to make a smooth adjustment to immateriality, while minds lower down are more stuck in the material realm. It is a hierarchy of education and learning; the minds have a duty to share knowledge with one another. The three levels of nous are hylic, psychic, and pneumatic. Hylics are stuck to the material world, since their brains are inferior in the eyes of Synaptics. Their minds are perfectly fine, but their brains restrict them to a bulky material body. Synaptics believe that slowly shifting their anti-nous to a brain of corporus noum will make them into psychics, and wish to empower the Neural Amalgam enough to do this process remotely. Psychics are those native to Lowiras. Their brain is made of corporus noum, and their mind is within the Neural Amalgam. They mainly draw power for Thaumaturgy from the Neural Amalgam, rarely drawing directly from Synapse. They do not have mastery over their own mind, so their power is largely limited to energy transfer, which still has a wide range of power and many applications. They do not have power over the connection between reality and the noosphere. With training and time, they can become pneumatics. Pneumatics are the highest within the noic hierarchy.