Semi Random Ruminations

Every notion of understanding of the universe is a metaphor for it's actual being. Mathematics may be the most effective metaphor for predicting the universe, but it is still just a metaphor. As is the metaphor of any conception of physical laws. As even pure thought is still just a metaphor. Therefore scientific theory, rooted in metaphor, is not fundamentally different from mythology, and what some mythology lacks (the predictive power of mathematics) it seems to make up for in deeper comprehension.

If science is not fundamentally different from mythology, it is not logical to assume that Science-Fiction is superior in communicative power from Philosophical Fiction, in which philosophical concepts are expounded on to create fictional worlds.

So I present some Philo-Fi ideas.

1: Beneath The Pentagon there is a network of iron-walled tunnels stretching from every point of the building above, forming a pentagram infrastructure, for the purposes of enhancing the powers of military wizards. The tunnel walls etched in the symbols of the narrative of the author, to interconnect the AU humans to the power of the creator.

The U.S.'s rise to dominance was due to greater funding of the black arts. It's fall from grace the result of inevitable karmic re-balancing.

2: The history of intellectual development is really the history of internegotiations between the sentient ideas within the world of fiction communicating with the sentient entities within the world of the actual.

3: In the world between worlds, where what is graceful is what analogizes to good in the world, there is a cancer. This cancer is the definition and origin of evil, as it analogizes to the void of the graceful, and the void of absence.

This manifests in the world as conspiracy between fear and foolishness cohorts with rage and willful ignorance.

4: At it's deepest immeasurable level, the universe is made up of ideas. And if we are composed of ideas, then our own ideas are a measure of immortality. Even the idea of us as individuals is a part of us.

A higher level organism trying to communicate with an individual, unable to distinguish between the individual and the individual as more tightly defined as the idea of the individual.

What if VALIS was trying to communicate with Philip K. Dick even now. Sending information to him by sending information to receptacles of his higher-level consciousness, composed of people who have read or otherwise learned his ideas.

The Conversation Continues. <---would be good tagline for VALIS movie.

5: If morphogenetics are real, then ideas are constantly evolving us unconsciously. And our own ideas are transferred to others, without the need for communication (unless it is itself some sort of communication)

This could explain ghosts.

6:It is possible, that in what we call "plot holes" we may find signs that one or more higher-level consciousnesses is attempting to communicate with "fictional" characters.

What if Deus Ex Machina was actually what it is said to be?

All plot holes are a form of Deus Ex Machina, they are all the intervention of the author into the narrative.

Plot holes may be an effort to intervene on the narrative of the author. Miracles don't make sense, because they are plot holes in the narrative of the universe. Miracles are Deus Ex Machina. They cannot be explained without the help of a Deus Ex Machina.

When We Lose The Fourth Wall, We'd Better Be Sure Our Characters Are Ready. (we've been in the process of losing it since the first man said "and then I".)

1: Continuing. Small Philo-Fi film, in which a DHS wizard combats a sleeper cell of enemy "awares" (people who know they're fictional). Every wizard in the history of fiction was aware that they were fictional. That is how they got their powers. That is why they are still active, all these years hence. This could explain why people who pray to Jesus can receive miracles, as they are communing with a fictional wizard, who by his very nature, is still alive in the world of fiction, and imbued with nearly limitless powers by his wizardly power of the divine.

That wizards do not reveal to the audience that they are aware, is because of another Deus Ex Machina.

2: Continuing. Film about a scientist working on new weapon. His journey to understand the technology teaches him about his life. The usage of this weapon assures the preservation of the good behind the device's grace.

The internegotiation dialectic is leading to the synonymity of good and grace on both sides of the fourth wall. But as with all dialectics, there are steps forward and steps backward.

3: Continuing. The Universe Apocalypse. The cancer of decay and void is the Phage, devouring grace wherever it can.

4: Continuing. The missing piece in adapting Philip K. Dick. It is the next step in the continuing dialectic between Philip K. Dick and VALIS.

5: Continuing. A low-level character interfering with the growth of its higher-level self, so as to communicate directly with a part of itself capable of communicating with the creator or audience.

6: Continuing. Perhaps additional missing piece for Philip K. Dick adaptation.

That's about it for now.