Curious Phenomena Curious Phenomena MIDI explorer has logged a variety of interesting properties of its universe. Renaming Local inhabitants often choose their own name for captured objects. While this practice can make the life forms much easier to identify, it also adds confusion to the life of a robot. Fortunately robots are able to precisely determine object size, usually enabling the original identity of an object to be determined. Devious inhabitants who change both the name and size sow confusion in an already confused space.
Some inhabitants attempt to improve on their captured musical objects.
Most often this amounts to a change of musical instrument to improve the sound in their own world. In other worlds, this may not be considered an improvement. Fortunately, such changes often result in very small changes in object size, and, if not renamed, the original identity can be determined even by a primitive robot. This is the most wonderful of the redundancies - the same fundamental form expressed differently by different creators. When they have different names, our robot cannot readily link these together.