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Re:Reality is a Shared Hallucination (1997) by MarkPNeyer on Wednesday August 31, 2016 @10:29PM (#12402782)
> One hypothesis to explain the "shared" part of the hallucination would be the existence an immutable shared data structure underlying the universe which uses consensus to agree, long term

This is a hypothesis i also stumbled into: reality as a method for coming to consensus on a data structure.

Check out this simple description of a game with similar mechanics:

https://markpneyer.wordpress.com/2015/02/22/the-photoshop-ga...

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Re:Reality is a Shared Hallucination (1997) by jasonkostempski on Thursday September 01, 2016 @07:07AM (#12404319)
That reminded me I had a random thought about how the universe is a sorting algorithm working towards heat death a few months ago. Probably not an original thought but its fun to think about.
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Re:Reality is a Shared Hallucination (1997) by kordless on Friday September 02, 2016 @12:13AM (#12410793)
Where heat death == infinite light on the metaphysical side.
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