Lost Pages
Knowledge of the lost pages of my mind, limited as it is, makes me fear that I have lost something precious and that fills me with foreboding. What if I now "rediscover" the same forbidden knowledge that previously had to be scrubbed out of my thoughts? Is there a "two strikes and you are out" rule being enforced by the tryp'At Overseers? For all I know, I maybe on my third strike. Or thirteenth.
The image above and to the right is the original "duckrabbit" illustration from 1892 that was made famous by Ludwig Wittgenstein. It reminds me that by seeing events in more than one way we have a chance to expand our minds and not get stuck inside false views of Reality.
The human brain can be a trap that locks us into one view of Reality. Currently, my collaborator Zeta and I are struggling mightily to escape from our old restricted and misleading view of what the Asimov replicoid will be able to accomplish during his exploration of the AR Simulation. With exuberant optimism, I had begun to view the AR Simulation as a type of futuristic book that the replicoid of Isaac Asimov could step into and where he could investigate the mysterious origins of the tryp'At.
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In the Asimov Reality
According to Yōd, the part of Deep Time that I think of as the Asimov Reality is actually a family of Realities. I had been led to believe that time travel was not much used while humans were spreading outward from Earth into the galaxy in "the" Asimov Reality, but there were apparently many Reality Changes and "corrections" made to that timeline. Yōd believes that since all those variations were eventually "erased", it is not worth worrying about them.
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