{"id":2388,"date":"2010-06-30T17:59:04","date_gmt":"2010-07-01T01:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/?p=2388"},"modified":"2011-07-29T08:38:48","modified_gmt":"2011-07-29T16:38:48","slug":"new-futures-in-sf-talk-for-westercon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/30\/new-futures-in-sf-talk-for-westercon\/","title":{"rendered":"New Futures in SF II (Talk for Westercon, July 4)"},"content":{"rendered":"

On July 5, I podcast the spoken (and somewhat different) version of this talk; click on the icon below to access the podcast via Rudy Rucker Podcasts.<\/code><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a draft of the talk on \u201cNew Futures in SF\u201d\u009d that I\u2019ll be giving at the Westercon <\/a>in Pasadena, CA, at 11:30 AM on Sunday, July 4, 2010. I\u2019m the Guest of Honor! Woo-hoo! I\u2019ll be on a some panels and such on Friday, July 2, and on Saturday, July 3, as well.<\/p>\n

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Ideas and Stories<\/b><\/p>\n

Living art forms change\u2014think of painting or popular music or literary novels or even TV sit-coms. SF people are always sad to see the most recent \u201cGolden Age\u201d\u009d slip away, but it\u2019s sadder still to keep doing the same thing. Inevitably the old material goes stale and the fire gutters down. It\u2019s still possible <\/em>to write novels about androids and spaceships and uploading your brain. And, by the same token, it\u2019s still possible to write a doo-wop song or paint an abstract expressionist painting. But old forms become stiff and mannered, and working with them is a bit quixotic. Why not some new kinds of SF novel? This is, after all, the twenty-first century.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s sometimes hard to grasp that the physics and sociology of earlier SF are only things that past writers made up. The received ideas of SF are unlikely to apply to any actual future. There\u2019s absolutely no reason why we can\u2019t change the rules and dream up fresh futures of our own. We\u2019re not duty-bound to copy what our predecessors did.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m going to talk about some fresh areas to mine for ideas. Note that having ideas is one thing, and turning them into stories is another. You need two <\/em>separate things for a story: first of all, the SF idea or gimmick and, second of all, an underlying issue that the gimmick solves.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m of the transreal school of SF writing, so when I\u2019m forming my ideas for an SF tale, I always look into my own life for the issues. That is, given an SF trope, I work to make the idea into a fresh and true metaphor for some immediate real-life concern of mine.<\/p>\n

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A cautionary note. By \u201creal-life concern\u201d\u009d I do not <\/em>mean the doom-and-gloom that the official media are forever pushing on us. For years I\u2019ve had a theory that commercial news, advertising, and mass entertainment are working in concert. All three of them promote fear and belligerence. Why? If you\u2019re afraid, it\u2019s easier for the politicians and the plutocrats to manipulate you. If you\u2019re belligerent, you can be provoked into attacking whatever rebellious groups the politicians and plutocrats want to stamp out. And if you\u2019re fearful and belligerent, you\u2019re willing to hand over a large cut of your income to the warmongers who are \u201cdefending\u201d\u009d you from their fellow warmongers in other lands. <\/p>\n

So never mind the daily news. We never needed it anyway. Be here now. It\u2019s time to run your own life, and to awaken from the fever dream we call history\u2014if only for a few hours. It\u2019s Independence Day!<\/p>\n

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Come to think of it, I\u2019d like to write a science fiction story about the notion that news stories are the hive-mind\u2019s nightmares or, putting it more strongly, that news stories are an insane society\u2019s hallucinations. But I\u2019d need a nice SF gimmick to make a story out of it. As I said before, you need two things: the SF gimmick plus the transreal meaning. Here I\u2019ve got the meaning but not the gimmick. But I can think of a gimmick pretty easily. Suppose that some individual is somehow taken over by the hive mind and he or she is <\/em>the control-freak paranoiac behind news\u2014but I\u2019ll stop there and save the further details for my next story, I need something to write about this week.<\/p>\n

Anyway, the point I was making is that I like for my stories to speak to a concern or an issue that troubles me personally\u2014rather than to some pumped-up mind-control worries that the media are promulgating.<\/p>\n

So what are the concerns that interest me? The things I notice in daily life. Looking around with an SF eye, I\u2019m always wondering how it would be if some aspect of life were exaggerated just a bit more. Just today, I was thinking that, to save money, young couples might start having \u201creality weddings.\u201d\u009d You can buy a ticket to attend their wedding and their reception, or for a smaller fee you can watch the festivities over a video feed. And if you\u2019re in the patron\u2019s circle, a fragment of your DNA is blended into the genes of the young couple\u2019s first child so that you\u2019re a kind of grandparent. And this line of thought speaks to me because these days I\u2019m interested in being a grandparent.<\/p>\n

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There\u2019s a number of more general concerns that have been with me for years. I\u2019m doomed to die, and I wonder if that\u2019s really the end. I have dreams every night, what do they mean? My thoughts aren\u2019t really like a page of writing at all\u2014they\u2019re blotches and rhythms and associations\u2014and is there any way to truly describe one\u2019s real mental life? I want to go back to my youth, is there a way? What are the differences between being a child, an adult, and an old person? What is eating <\/em>all about? Can I talk to my cells? What would it be like to be an ant or, even better, an ant colony? These are a few of the issues that happen to matter to me<\/em>\u2014but of course other writers will have very different issues of their own. Part of the trick is to make your own quirky concerns seem universal enough to interest others.<\/p>\n

Let me make another general point before I get into some specific ideas for new futures. It is in fact very unusual to come up with a truly new idea. No matter how outr\u00c3\u00a9 an SF or fantasy concept you dream up, more often that not you find out that someone used it in an obscure pulp-magazine story of the 1950s or, which hurts even more, on a TV show or even in a comic.<\/p>\n

Beginning SF writers sometimes imagine that writing a story or novel is all about having the idea. I\u2019ve had amateurs send me emails like, \u201cI\u2019m not a writer, but I have an idea for an SF novel. We\u2019ll meet for coffee, I\u2019ll tell you the idea, you\u2019ll write the novel, and we\u2019ll split the money fifty-fifty.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n

As I said above, as well as the idea, you need the meaning\u2014and more. You have to embody the idea into a social situation with characters that the reader will care about. The idea has to in some way solve a problem that has an emotional resonance to it. The characters have to grow and change. Generally you want to have a love interest in there. And you need what I call eyeball kicks, that is, some interesting things to visualize and think about. And so on. You need the idea, the meaning, the scene, the characters, and the plot as well. And, oh yeah, you need a literary style, so the sentences are evocative, clear, fun to read, and have a nice rhythm.<\/p>\n

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It is true that you need the idea, yes. But turning the idea into a story is really the bulk of the work. I don\u2019t worry too much about people \u201cstealing\u201d\u009d any ideas that I mention on my blog or in talks like this. Even if you and I were to start with exactly the same idea, our stories would end up being very different.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m glad to be giving this talk, as just now I\u2019m between novels and I don\u2019t have an specific idea for my next one. One thing that makes the process a little harder for a seasoned writer is that, after a certain number of stories and novels, you\u2019ve already written about most of the ideas that have obsessed you from early on.<\/p>\n

In my case, this means that I\u2019ve written about an infinitely large world, about a four-dimensional world, about flying jellyfish, about a giant ass from the fourth dimension (I was combining a few interests there), about robots who evolve, about robots made of soft plastic, about aliens who travel as cosmic ray particles, about UFOs that can travel into the future, about shrinking down to sizes below the tiniest elementary particles, about growing to sizes larger than the galaxy, about a biotech world in which there are no machines at all, about going to meet the intelligent vortex-beings who lurk within a glowing star, about the afterworld, about parasitic mind-controlling slugs who ride on people\u2019s backs, about flying like Superman, about exploring the interior of the Hollow Earth, about a global swarm of virtual ants who destroy all TV, about a device that turns plain air into whatever object you want, about travelling to a parallel universe, and about a future in which every object in the world comes to life.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s left? Well, let\u2019s see if I can come up with something today. And in the process, I may also be recycling some of those road-tested ideas I just listed. After all, it\u2019s not a crime to use the same idea twice.<\/p>\n

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Live Brains<\/b><\/p>\n

I suppose I need to mention the Singularity at least once\u2014even though it\u2019s become, in my opinion, a stale and media-driven tope. The basic idea is that computers will continue to gain in speed and memory capacity. And we hope somehow to develop really good software to take advantage of the improved hardware. The Singulatarian dream is that, before long, then software will start writing even better software on its own, and then\u2014shazam<\/em>\u2014the machines will be smarter than people.<\/p>\n

And if you buy vitamins from Ray Kurzweil\u2019s web page, you may live long enough for the wise and kindly nanomachines of the coming-real-soon future to clean all the gunk out of your veins! And then <\/em>you might live long enough so that your brain can be sliced and diced for your mind to be copied onto a computer so you\u2019re immortal!<\/p>\n

Mind copied into a computer so you\u2019re immortal\u2014hmmm, where I have I heard that idea before? Oh, right, that\u2019s from my 1981 novel, Software<\/em>. \u201cYa\u2019ll ever ate any live brains?\u201d\u009d asks one of my robot-employed mind-harvesters. I recall my cyberpunk pal John Shirley screaming this phrase out the window of a car at a con in Austin around 1982. \u201cYa\u2019ll ever ate any live brains?\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n

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Actually, it\u2019s more interesting to think about intelligence augmentation than about artificial intelligence. That is, what are some ways in which people might become noticeably smarter? I\u2019m not so interested in brute-force approaches like shoving in more memory tissues or internalizing direct links to world wide web. The cool, SFictional thing would be if there were some in-retrospect-rather-obvious mental trick that we haven\u2019t yet exploited.<\/p>\n

Such tricks do exist. Think of how our effective intelligence improved with the advent of speech and of writing. In the mathematical realm, our ability to calculate got exponentially better when we started using positional notation. It would be cool if there some cute mental trick that would make us much brighter.<\/p>\n

One of the dreams of AI is that there may yet be some trick like this that we can use to make our machines really smart. The only path towards AI at present is to more or less beat to death the problems of AI by using faster computers with every-larger data-bases. You set up a kind of neural network and train it and evolve it a little bit\u2014not that anything like worldwide biological evolutions is practical in our little labs. But what if there was some clear and simple insight, some big aha?<\/p>\n

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When Everything Is Alive<\/b><\/p>\n

Following the trail blazed by Charles Stross in Accelerando<\/em>, I prefer to think out past the so-called Singularity. I wrote a pair of novels set in this zone: Postsingular <\/em>and Hylozoic<\/em>.<\/p>\n

One of the ideas I was working with here is a fairly simple one: computer chips will go away. We don\u2019t use little gears in our watches like they did fifty years ago, and I think it\u2019s reasonable to expect that today\u2019s chips will become outmoded, too.<\/p>\n

What replaces them? I have two layers of speculations.<\/p>\n

Biotech is likely to be the preeminent science of the 21st century, and we\u2019ve really only scratched the surface with our SF. We\u2019ve had some novels about plagues and about chimerical mixes of various species. But there\u2019s so much more to explore. I like the idea of a person who becomes a disease that other people catch. And I like the idea of replacing every machine in existence by a biogadget\u2014I wrote about this in Frek and the Elixir<\/em>. But that was just a start.<\/p>\n

My first speculation about future computers is that we\u2019ll start using biotech to grow our computer hardware. A cuttlefish skin can display an amazing range of colors, updating the images at startling speeds. So why not a rectangle of tweaked cuttlefish skin for your display? And we can give our biogadget an embedded nervous system to take care of the computing chores. And how about input devices? Just wriggling your fingers should be enough if the biogadget pays attention. I don\u2019t understand why we don\u2019t already have this input technology.<\/p>\n

Kicking it a notch further, it might be nice to have a wireless connection of some kind connected to your brain. I don\u2019t think any reasonable person wants any kind of chip or biogadget implant. But I\u2019ve often written about a soft slug-like device called an uvvy which sits on the back of your neck and picks up on the electromagnetic fields of your brain.<\/p>\n

The uvvy is a symbol for the smart phone. In this vein, there\u2019s a certain amount of SF material in the notion of people walking around staring at tiny handheld screens all day long. Peering at the world through their cellphones so as to see the augmented reality overlays. I\u2019ve written about this before as \u201cstunglasses,\u201d\u009d but now that it\u2019s really happening, there\u2019s fresh observations to take into account.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

My second idea about computers of the future has to with quantum computation. Atoms and molecules are always doing quantum computations, even when they\u2019re just sitting around. These computations are in fact rich enough to emulate anything that an ordinary computer could do. If we can just get the hang of how to do it, we can start having computers that are chairs, rocks, air currents, glasses of water, candle flames\u2014whatever.<\/p>\n

Once we get this working, we\u2019re ready for what I describe in my novel Hylozoic<\/em>. Everything can be conscious and alive. Most of you won\u2019t be familiar with the world \u201chylozoism.\u201d\u009d It\u2019s a real dictionary word that means, \u201cthe doctrine that physical objects are alive.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n

I\u2019d like to see a lot more SF about worlds where everything is alive. R. Crumb once drew a great comic where a guy\u2019s cheeseburger starts talking to him. Why not? Lots of things talk these days, although thus far they don\u2019t say anything interesting. But what if they did? It\u2019s easy enough to layer on enough computer science to bring these fantasies into SF. <\/p>\n

One cute idea that I touched on in Hylozoic <\/em>is worth using again. If we view any bit of matter as carrying out a quantum computation, then what if something like a computer virus infects matter, perhaps changing the laws of physics to make our world more congenial to some other kinds of beings? Or what if you yourself dose your surroundings simply to make them more vibrant, more cartoony, more congenial. Instead of your getting high, your house gets high!<\/p>\n

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Magic Doors<\/b><\/p>\n

As a boy, I learned about magic doors from the Narnia <\/em>books and from Heinlein\u2019s Tunnel In The Sky<\/em>. I\u2019ve always loved the idea of portals to other worlds. Looking at them through modern eyes, we can see the magic doors as being a bit like hyperlinks on the web.<\/p>\n

If you model a magic door in physics, it often takes on the form of a so-called Einstein-Rosen bridge, which will look a little like one of a Christmas tree\u2019s mirror balls\u2014a little sphere that seems to have another world inside it. And if you push towards an E-R sphere, you get smaller, and you fit inside it, and then you\u2019re in the alternate world.<\/p>\n

I like to think of a character with spherical portals like this swarming around him or her like multicolored fireflies. Wheeling about like a cloud of memories. Some of them may lead to alternate worlds, but some might lead into the past\u2026or even into the afterworld.<\/p>\n

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Alternate Worlds<\/b><\/p>\n

Contemporary physicists speak of worlds parallel to ours as \u201cbranes.\u201d\u009d In some theories there\u2019s only two branes or perhaps a few more, maybe seven.<\/p>\n

I like the idea of a limited number of parallel worlds, as I\u2019ve always found the notion that all possible universes exist to be kind of inane and defeatist. If every possible world exists, then there\u2019s no particular reason for anything. But if you actually pay attention to the world we\u2019re in, you\u2019ll notice that it\u2019s very highly structured. It\u2019s hard to be sure, but reality seems shot through with interesting coincidences\u2014what C. G. Jung called synchronicities. To me, it feels as if our universe is as least as well crafted as an extremely good novel.<\/p>\n

Who wrote the novel we live in? In Mathematicians in Love<\/em>, I took up this question, and had the divine author be a large jellyfish living in a lagoon in a parallel brane. The jellyfish turns in a fresh draft of our universe every Friday, and each draft is better than the one before.<\/p>\n

An idea I haven\u2019t explored very much is that our universe might in some way self-organize itself\u2014like a pattern of ice-crystals forming upon our spacetime brane as metatime elapses.<\/p>\n

A particularly virulent version of the all-possible-universes mind-virus is the notion that our time is continually branching. The physicist Hugh Everett showed that this notion is consistent in his famous papers on \u201cThe Many Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n

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Last year I read Neal Stephenson\u2019s Anathem<\/em>, in which time has a branching quality, and the characters have an ability to sniff out the best universe for them to be moving forward into. It\u2019s a good read, but there\u2019s to be something fundamentally incoherent about the SFictional notion of picking an optimal world from many equally real possible worlds.<\/p>\n

My sense is that if time really branches, then you wholeheartedly go into each branch; you\u2019re conscious in each of them, and there\u2019s no single \u201clit-up by the searchlight of the mind\u201d\u009d branch that zigzags up through the time-tree to limn the path that you \u201creally\u201d\u009d take. The whole tree is lit. You really and truly think you\u2019re in each branch that has a version of you.<\/p>\n

Turning, however, from logic to emotion, I do <\/em>have an appreciation and a longing for the heroic concept that I really am <\/em>selecting a best possible path. I mean, that\u2019s how a human life is lived. You consider the outcomes of possible actions, and you direct your actions so as to realize the more favorable results.<\/p>\n

We have an emotional, experiential sense that the bad, unchosen paths are in fact shriveling away to the left and the right. There\u2019s a sense of this in Phil Dick\u2019s vintage precog story, \u201cThe Golden Man.\u201d\u009d I\u2019d like to see a story in which the unchosen paths really are <\/em>withering away. Suppose, for instance, suppose that my branch is not quite a pure jagged line. It does <\/em>very commonly grow a stub out a few seconds past a given branch point, then back up and go into the proper branch. There\u2019s a continuous line of time but it sometimes loops back a bit and then starts forward on a new tack.<\/p>\n

The backups are very common, in fact they\u2019re all but ubiquitous. Most people don\u2019t notice this, because when time backs up, events run backwards and memories get erased. But our hero or heroine does <\/em>learn to notice. <\/p>\n

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The Subdimensions<\/b><\/p>\n

For too long we\u2019ve let the quantum mechanics tell us that nothing smaller than the Planck length. Let\u2019s view this tiny size scale as a membrane, a frontier, but not a wall. Some string theorists speculate that the subdimensional world below the Planck length is a kind of mirror version of ours. Other physicists have recently suggested that, at the microscale, space has a higher-dimensional thickness.<\/p>\n

Suppose we can delve into space and get down below the Planck length to enter the land of\u2014the subdimensions<\/em>. I think pulp writers used that word in the 1940s. Recently I\u2019ve taken to using it a lot myself.<\/p>\n

One of the tricks of SF writing is to keep switching to newer buzzwords for your magical mysteries. In the 1940s they were content with talking about radio and radiation. And then it was curved space and black holes. Then came cybernetics and quantum mechanics. And then quarks and string theory. These days I\u2019m liking bosons and the subdimensions.<\/p>\n

Aliens can visit us from the subdimensions, so there\u2019s no need for those tiresome star ships. Just focus on a speck of dust and get into <\/em>it.<\/p>\n

Recently a news-media-controlled man asked me if I was planning to write an SF story about the recent Louisiana oil spill. I wouldn\u2019t exactly want to write about that. But it would be nice to do a happy story in which we discover an incredible new energy source.<\/p>\n

This has, of course, been done before. But I like the idea of getting our energy from\u2014the subdimensions. And, as a transreal kicker, because we pump out too much energy, space starts to, like, shrivel and collapse. We turn as wrinkled as leaky balloons.<\/p>\n

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Infinity and Beyond<\/b><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve always like to think about a world that\u2019s an endless flat plane, a place where you can walk (or fly your electric glider) forever in a straight line and never come back to where you started. This is, after all, the underlying dream of a long road trip. Just keep going and you\u2019ll encounter\u2014the cockroach men! The empire of the two-headed women! <\/p>\n

Larry Niven\u2019s Ringworld <\/em>has some of this quality of being an incredibly large place where you can drive around. And I\u2019ve been told that Charles Stross\u2019s \u201cMissile Gap,\u201d\u009d explores a very large world as well.<\/p>\n

But infinite would be better. What if our world were suddenly to become infinite over night. There\u2019s a rumble like from an earthquake and, wow, our little planet will have unrolled, ready for you to start out on the ultimate On the Road <\/em>adventure and, oh my God, Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassady are parked right outside your house!<\/p>\n

I got a Ph. D. in mathematics, and my thesis topic was set theory, the science of transfinite numbers. I studied infinities bigger than infinities\u2014big boys like alef-one and alef-seven.<\/p>\n

Historically, physicists eventually find a physical application for just about every sufficiently batshit idea that pure mathematicians dream up. To pave the way, we need SF about transfinite numbers in the large (as in space being larger than infinity) and in the small (as in matter being more than infinitely divisible).<\/p>\n

I wrote a story along these lines called \u201cJack and the Aktuals, or, Physical Applications of Transfinite Set Theory.\u201d\u009d You can find it online at Tor.com. But there\u2019s plenty of room for more.<\/p>\n

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Dreams and Memories<\/b><\/p>\n

I think there\u2019s still a lot of interesting things to be done with dreams. Waking up inside them? Finding out that they\u2019re really happening in a higher dimension?<\/p>\n

I quite recently wrote a story with Bruce Sterling which is about some SF-writer types whose job is crafting dreams to sell to other people. And this isn\u2019t a new theme. <\/p>\n

In the mental front, we might also consider viewing memories as in some sense real. Maybe memory is a form of time-travel, and you really can flip back into the past or, more oddly, bring people from your past into your present.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve never gotten it together to writ a full time-travel novel, I haven\u2019t been able to see a way to make it new. And getting around the paradoxes in a fresh way is tricky. Maybe a guy develops 4D consciousness so that he\u2019s present at each instant of his life. And then his long world-snake of a time body starts to writhe\u2026<\/p>\n

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Higher Realities<\/b><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve always thought there should be more SF that speculates about what happens to people after they die. This can shade into fantasy, of course, but giving it an SF slant would be interesting. Certainly it\u2019s nice to speculate that there\u2019s some kind of afterworld…rather than nothing.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve written two novels about the afterworld, my early White Light <\/em>(which is also about a transfinite world) and my recent Jim and the Flims<\/em>, which hasn\u2019t yet appeared. My personal motivation for returning to the afterworld theme is that, as I get older, death is becoming increasingly real to me. It\u2019s easy to believe that death is a lights-out situation. But it\u2019s comforting to write an SF novel in which things work out differently.<\/p>\n

If we develop a SFictional notion of an afterworld, then we\u2019re also free to write about ghosts. Perhaps people might develop some new augmented senses. What if you could \u201csee\u201d\u009d radio-waves, electrical charges, neutrinos, Higgs bosons, or neutrinos? Maybe these senses would let you see specters.<\/p>\n

Not that the specters necessarily have to be the ghosts of dead people. I\u2019ve often imagined that our world is in fact replete with alien beings whom, for whatever reason, we\u2019re ordinarily unable to perceive. Those flashes of light you see out of the corner of your eye sometimes\u2014maybe those are alien beings.<\/p>\n

Thinking along these lines leads to notions of higher realities. It would be nice to see some stories about levels at which archetypes are real. It would be nice to visit God\u2019s art studio.<\/p>\n

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Why?<\/b><\/p>\n

Why are we here? What\u2019s it all for? What\u2019s the meaning of life? Why does anything exist at all? Why is there something instead of nothing? I await your answers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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