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by jes 1036 days ago
This reminds me of an Alan Watt's talk on alternating levels of order and chaos in nature.
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On the theme of "Unexpected Alan Watts" I'd like to recommend the game "Everything" which after a slightly bizarre start develops into a "achieve subgoal, get an Alan Watts audio clip as a reward" gameplay loop. It's fantastic.
Will check it out! Ty!
To add some spice to your observation. I read somewhere that "This statement is false" can act as a oscillator, a "clock" going tick-tock, at the deepest level of reality.
Ok. I need to know more.
Well actually, it was a comment on a blogpost (I don't know what it was about). It said since if our world is a simulation, then it needs a computer to run on. And every computer needs a clock. So this statement changing its truth value could act as a clock.
Please say more!
Do you remember the title of it?
Web of Life

Here is the youtube video and transcript. I think the parent poster refered to section IV, around 19:20 in the video.

https://www.organism.earth/library/document/out-of-your-mind...

Perfect. Appreciate the ref.