06-16-2019, 10:01 AM
Random musing of the day:
Just had a thought. I remember reading and really liking this book by Jacek Dukaj (Polish SF/F writer, one of the really good ones) in which he created a world which, in essence, worked exactly as if you took Aristotle's teachings on "form" and "matter" and took them literally for how the world would work "physically". It ended up as having these characters who would bend reality and shape them in their own image, with power and effectiveness depending on the strength of their "form" (starting with Alexander of Macedon, who was historically personally tutored by Aristotle, IIRC), with the main character being a guy who, whilst not having really strong reality-bending powers, had a personal "form" which became so strong it was pretty much immune to "bending" by others (so in the book he became pretty much the only person in the world with the capability to physically kill one of the reality-bending guys - in the book, these guys were unable to meet in person because when their "formative domains" touched, it instantly would become a battle of forms, so to speak). Fun book.
But, here I was thinking, given some philosophical and scientific and rule 4 stuff I've come to learn, I think, that, in a way, things do, or could, work this way, couldn't they? Shape it in our image type of thing, ey? Kind like that "frame" thing PUA and marketing fools keep babbling on about. An interesting notion to be sure.
Just had a thought. I remember reading and really liking this book by Jacek Dukaj (Polish SF/F writer, one of the really good ones) in which he created a world which, in essence, worked exactly as if you took Aristotle's teachings on "form" and "matter" and took them literally for how the world would work "physically". It ended up as having these characters who would bend reality and shape them in their own image, with power and effectiveness depending on the strength of their "form" (starting with Alexander of Macedon, who was historically personally tutored by Aristotle, IIRC), with the main character being a guy who, whilst not having really strong reality-bending powers, had a personal "form" which became so strong it was pretty much immune to "bending" by others (so in the book he became pretty much the only person in the world with the capability to physically kill one of the reality-bending guys - in the book, these guys were unable to meet in person because when their "formative domains" touched, it instantly would become a battle of forms, so to speak). Fun book.
But, here I was thinking, given some philosophical and scientific and rule 4 stuff I've come to learn, I think, that, in a way, things do, or could, work this way, couldn't they? Shape it in our image type of thing, ey? Kind like that "frame" thing PUA and marketing fools keep babbling on about. An interesting notion to be sure.
"A man who is doing his True Will has the inertia of the Universe to assist him." - A. Crowley
