28/ #6: Why are mages obsessed with gathering books in pop culture and specfic? It's not actually because they're looking for spells, but they're looking for new ideas and symbols to cross reference to feed their ability to play with symbols necessary for outcomes
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29/ This is hard to explain, though, so instead we get a presentation of seeking spellbooks for new spells which is a dumbed-down and simplistic metaphor for this.
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30/ Lots of other interesting threads and ideas I haven't cobbled together into anything resembling a structure yet. I'm still very much trying to assemble a landscape of interesting concepts to decide where to go deeper first.
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31/ At this point, it's too early to share anything concrete because I have a lot more reading to do to test and harden some of these ideas. It's a very fuzzy picture I'm just beginning to explore. But there's something weird going on here.
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Replying to @liminal_warmth
Quantum mechanics says that minds influence the world by just observing it. Could it be that mind, consciousness, belief are a fundamental part of the universal fabric?
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Replying to @jack_meditates @liminal_warmth
thats not how quantum physics works at all "observation" is a thing random atoms do, it is done whenever any two things interact it has to do with probability amplitudes and interference effects and nothing to do with consciousness
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Replying to @imhinesmi @liminal_warmth
By the wave functions all possible quantum branches manifest, but we only see one right now. Why is that and why is this the one we see?
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Replying to @jack_meditates @liminal_warmth
complicated math reasons i dont understand particularly well but theres also the many worlds interpretation: we do, in fact, see all outcomes, but not in the same branch of reality
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Replying to @imhinesmi @liminal_warmth
Right, and there’s branches of the many worlds in which I suddenly explode or water turns to wine or an elephant appears in my living room. Wouldn’t that be magical if it happened?
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Yes those outcomes live in impossibly small areas of the quantum state space, but so does the existence of our world in the first place!
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not... really? there are lots of planets, its not terribly surprising that at least one is hospitable to life especially once you take into account anthropic effects (i.e., we aren't around in timelines without earth)
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