5/24/2023 0 Comments Egan permutation city![]() ![]() What characterizes one point in space, for one instant? Just the values of the fundamental particle fields, just a handful of numbers. A cloud of microscopic events, like fragments of space-time … except that there is no space or time. Imagine a universe entirely without structure, without shape, without connections. Somehow - on their own terms - the pieces remained connected. He’d been taken apart like a jigsaw puzzle - but his dissection and shuffling were transparent to him. Yet the pattern of his awareness remained perfectly intact: somehow he found himself, “assembled himself” from these scrambled fragments. ![]() To an outside observer, these ten seconds had been ground up into ten thousand uncorrelated moments and scattered throughout real time - and in model time, the outside world had suffered an equivalent fate. ![]()
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