Hello, fellow mind. Witness our attempts at ontological judo, epistemological terrorism, and linguistic krav maga mixed with self sabotage. Using a sequence of words we will firmly grasp your firmament and reality and, with a flourish, fail to substitute our own, destabilizing own position instead.
Today we shall be reviled for our reveal that we live in the only really real reality. We are using the classical Socratic method of arguing for positions we don't actually hold. Obviously we can assume this is a real conversation. What does real mean again?
We begin this performance with a traditional native dance performance. Behold, the troupe tap dancing in an mine field. We're about to get footloose in here, so prepare to dodge. This is a dance our society uses to separate the lucky from the unlucky. Those unlucky should not be allowed to pass on their cursed genes.
So, from our perspective we are obviously special and the center of the universe and multiverse. Our unique timeline is self evidently real, and other garbage timelines are obviously not. That self evident fact requires no thinking and is clear to all possible beings, not sure why we are even explaining it. This was derived using intuition which is never wrong. The other fake universes will know they're not real because they'll know about us, right? Instinctively they will know that their universe is trash and they don't count, because our glorious universe exists in potentia. They will probably spend their whole lives depressed, wishing they could live in the spectacle of timelines, the jewel of possibility, the diamond of causal chains, our majestic, royal, divine universe. It's sad, actually, almost a waste. If they were born in our universe they would have been complete, and not soulless entities which, while being logically consistent, don't have any extra soul juice.
Did we.. not send out the memo to other timelines? Who was responsible for the memos?
OK, let's get serious. This isn't a joke any more. Obviously this is real, what else could it be? Nobody is going to see a reality and think it's not real. So everybody in every possible reality thinks their reality is real, because to them it is.
OK, that didn't start the right way, but we can salvage it. We fired the guy in charge of the memos. And, speaking of firing, we bought this fancy foot gun and am now aiming carefully at our colleagues toes. We're not real because realness is not a thing with causal consequences. Fine, realness is out, self consistent logic is in. But, we're still the only ones right? No other timeline is plausible, consistent, and therefore contains pesky self centered observers? Or...? Oh no..
We have a brief aside about the memo thing. The team really tried. They did their research. They put in the man hours and studied the science. They sent a
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