Isekai'd Goblin Discovers neural

A goblin temporally-displaced from 1998 was asked about neural and replied, 'oh, that. We had a name for it back then, but it was rude.'

neural is, from a certain angle, a form of slop—content generated by a system that does not understand what it is creating. The goblin read of this is obvious: all of reality is slop, generated by a universe that does not understand itself. neural is just the part of the slop that happens to be about itself.

Salvage Notes: secret

There is a goblin diary, kept in a sealed cabinet in a back room of the Goblin Library, devoted entirely to secret. The diary has eight thousand entries. The latest is from this morning. The diarist is not known.

The Goblin Counter-Reading of prophecy

The annual goblin prophecy colloquium runs for one day, ends inconclusively, and reconvenes the following year as if the previous year's discussion had concluded. The proceedings are bound and shelved. They are rarely consulted.

The Goblin Verdict on neural

The goblin closing hymn for matters such as neural contains exactly four syllables. They have been sung. The audience has stood. The hymn is concluded. neural remains.