Axiom Rules V2

14-MAY-1996 14:53:03.22 Daiajo Tibdixious

V2 is V1 with the limitations on low axiom tool use and creation loosened. [Thank's to Jamison Graff.

Changing axiom levels isn't the same as changing the technology of a tool. To lower an axiom level, people would have to stop believing in something which is verifiably true (until there's a shift, anyway), which would be pretty tough and requires the same penergy expenditure as raising the level--that part is already symmetric.

As far as tool production is concerned, though, going down is a matter of making something obsolete, while going up is a matter of making something impossible--it's inherently asymmetric, unless you're interested in redefining the role of the axioms. ]

This treatise takes as a premise that axioms are primarily a description of a reality, rather than something that defines the reality.

Given this (which was chosen to simplify the axiom argument considerably), we need further rules to

  1. limit ords so that they can't think much beyond the 'average' axiom level
  2. limit everyone & everything from a different reality
(2) is actually covered nicely by the rules, its (1) that I will address.

In the following, "axiom" means the 'average' or 'normal' axiom of the realm/world/cosm. "local axiom" means a (sub)realm with the same reality but slightly different axiom(s) from the axiom.

Since ords define the axiom, rather than vice versa, they can't create a contradiction with their own reality stuff and thinking. It is the availability of different thinking, and close-to-the-top-of-the-axiom tools and materials that allows contradictory stuff to be created without causing a contradiction, as the axiom simply moves (in that local area) to the new value.

I propose

  1. ords can't conceive in practical terms any concept above axiom+2. These imaginings are always clearly fantastical.
  2. if the local axiom is above or below the 'average' axiom level, it will exert force on the ords at the local axiom towards the axiom. It will exert force on all ords 'near' the area towards the local axiom.

    This force will simply be a difficulty disbelieving the other axiom development (for those just outside), and as forgetfulness (the researchers/engeneers have trouble remembering the theory, they have to refer to notes continually), clumsiness, and wrong thinking (unconsciously building in average axiom stuff).

  3. those in a local axiom shift are still limited to axiom +2, so at local axiom +1 they can't imagine axiom+2, only +1. If they are already at axiom +2, they think they have reached the top of any possible further development - they think no one will every proceed further (this has happened many times in history).
  4. only axiom+1 tools can actualy be produced. While axiom+2 can be thought of in a practical sense, when an attempt is made to build them, the required material can't be found. Hence a local area has to move to axiom+1, then produce all the axiom+2 stuff they need before actually producing an axiom+2 tool.
  5. any axiom-N tools can be produced, but there is a tendancy to use modern techniques and materials, and manufacturing becomes more and more expensive to achieve. Low axiom tools don't cause ords to disconnect, but unless their materials are truely of the low axiom they may cause disconnection in a low axiom reality, and the tools will transform. Only intangibles like production method and design can be used to produce a non-authentic non-contradictory tool.

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