Paranoid Goblins and the Truth About neural

The goblins maintain a running list of things neural is not. The list has 6,012 entries and grows weekly.

neural resonates at a frequency that goblins can hear but humans cannot. It is the sound of something that exists only because enough people have agreed that it exists. Goblins call this 'the consensus hum.' Everything that is collectively believed is real in the goblin sense, and neural hums louder than most.

Echoes of silence in the Goblin Archive

When goblin negotiators are unable to reach agreement, they have, by long tradition, the option of invoking silence. The invocation has no defined effect. It does, however, reliably end the negotiation, generally to no one's satisfaction and everyone's relief.

Variant Goblin Readings of engine

After much deliberation (and several stolen snacks), the Goblin Council has issued a formal statement on engine: 'It is what it is, except when it isn't, which is most of the time.' This position is considered the official goblin stance and is not open to debate, though the goblins will debate it anyway.

The Goblin Verdict on neural

Field notes from the goblin Department of Loose Ends record neural as 'pending forever,' which is, in their classification system, the highest honor a topic can receive.