10 Jan 1025

Mary, Mary, Mary.
Yes?
A dream I had last night. Well it's not the dream as such. I was with some militant Girl Scouts chasing a father, son, and grandfather down a grassy hill-we got hung up on the barbed wire fence at first. Then I was with the son and bunch of other kids hiding from soldiers; we were in the wooded ravine below the hill. Then we climbed back up to the top and it turned into the Old Neighbourhood and we were playing hide'n'seek.
You were busy.
Well, what I'm pointing out is in a dream everything is always shifting, it's so slippery. Yet, you say it's real.
Most of it. Oh, there's the odd neuron misfiring.
Why is reality so different from this?
And why do our other selves ask that about this reality? It has to do with coalescence and convergence. In the first place, during a dream your perceptions are alterred by hypnogenic hormones. An accidental side effect.
Do you see that building over there?
Where? Yeah.
You would say that that is a full size building?
Of course.
But it looks so small. And simple. Little more than smudged paper.
That's because it's far away.
That's coalescence. All of its floors, the people, the concrete, steel, miles of cable, everything, have simplified, have coalesced, into this simple projection.
But it's still a big building.
Only when you stand next to it. But from here it's a smudge. That's the first part: the further you are from an event, the simpler it is.
Appears simpler.
Is simpler. From our point of view. You can only talk about your own point of view. It requires energy to approach the building which can perturb your perception of it. The building is remarkable consistent, but something like an atom is rarely consistent.
I'm not sure if I agree, but go on.
And in a dream, because of your alterred perception, any time you shift your point of view, you can get an inconsistent coalescence.
The other part is convergence of causality. You think cause happens and then effect happens.
Of course. Now, I suppose-
And when you say something happens, you mean as time goes along.
Yes...
Bzzt. Wrong.
Wait a sec. Here. Cause: I let go of this book; effect: it hits your foot. Cause: it hits your foot; effect: you scream.
Cause: you're going to drop the book on my foot; effect: I punch you. Cause: I'm going to punch you; effect: you don't drop the book. Cause and effect can go backwards and forwards in time and even loop so that the effect induces the cause.
But that isn't going backwards. It's a prediction.
Call it what you want, you're still letting effect control the decision.
No. The possible effect.
The difference between possible and actual just depends-
-on your point of view.
Exactly. From outside spacetime, you see causality as a relation from one area of space time into another. In some cases the areas overlap, forming a causality loop. When viewed from a sufficient distance, the loop coalesces, it converges.
And if you're not far enough away?
Then things jumble up, like in a dream. Events happen without cause or effect. Things just happen and you're along for the ride.
Why is it so different when I wake up?
The hypnogenic hormones induce this alterred perception. Once you wake up, they're mostly gone.

'Unlike Patricia, I treat curvature as a simple curvature rather than a map into a pdf, with the appropriate extension to a set A={fi,...,fj}
'The coalescence operator g remains the same, 'However ri, the causality operators, are redefined. For ri(A)=kB, Patricia required not A[]B, and used probablistic curvature. But by using simple curvature and allowing A[]B, we achieve the same rich description by iterating the operator 'This iteration is a causality loop, where gX=fX, However, for Y<=X,
Superimposed domain
gY is no longer defined as before. Instead, we must consider all possible curvatures under ri1, ri2, ri3,... The envelope of all these curvatures is the so-­called probability wave.

'And from a distance the loop coalesces to a fixed point, the coalescence of the past.

'What if XúO? This is a causality violation, better known to pilots as a black or destructuring wave.'

-kendricks Harmony

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