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According to the Lore Book "Unveiling," which is seemingly narrated by the Darkness itself, both the [[Light]] and the Darkness have existed since before the start of time, and thus before the universe came into existence. Being unbound by the laws of causality, neither the Light or Darkness can be said to have a beginning. Rather, they are emergent properties of even more fundamental "mathematical structures" that in turn underlay reality itself. <ref>https://www.ishtar-collective.net/entries/gardener-and-winnower#book-unveiling</ref> | According to the Lore Book "Unveiling," which is seemingly narrated by the Darkness itself, both the [[Light]] and the Darkness have existed since before the start of time, and thus before the universe came into existence. Being unbound by the laws of causality, neither the Light or Darkness can be said to have a beginning. Rather, they are emergent properties of even more fundamental "mathematical structures" that in turn underlay reality itself. <ref>https://www.ishtar-collective.net/entries/gardener-and-winnower#book-unveiling</ref> | ||
In the allegorical story recounted in the Lore Book, the Darkness and Light occupied themselves by engaging one another in a game, analogous to a vastly more complex version of the "Game of Life" devised by Earth mathematician John Conway. This game would consistently arrive at an end-state dominated by a single, self-perpetuating pattern, which subsumed all others in the game. The | In the allegorical story recounted in the Lore Book, the Darkness and Light are referred to as the winnower and gardener respectively, and occupied themselves by engaging one another in a game, analogous to a vastly more complex version of the "Game of Life" devised by Earth mathematician John Conway. This game would consistently arrive at an end-state dominated by a single, self-perpetuating pattern, which subsumed all others in the game. The winnower found this to be a pleasing outcome, but the felt the pattern to be boring, and desired that the game endlessly produce novel patterns instead. In order to promote this novelty, the gardener transformed itself into a new "rule" within the game; the winnower did the same, to counteract the gardener’s efforts. These new rules were "set aside" from the other rules of the game, so that they could not be limited or influenced by them, but could manipulate the other rules to bring about their intended outcomes. | ||
While the story above is laden with metaphor and open to interpretation, it appears to suggest that the universe is the "game" which the Light and Darkness played in the garden, that the rules of the game are the laws of physics as they are commonly understood, and that the "new rules" that the Light and Darkness became are the basis of [[paracausality]]. | While the story above is laden with metaphor and open to interpretation, it appears to suggest that the universe is the "game" which the Light and Darkness played in the garden, that the rules of the game are the laws of physics as they are commonly understood, and that the "new rules" that the Light and Darkness became are the basis of [[paracausality]]. Of course, this whole book is communications the Guardian receives from seemingly the Darkness, so it is up to them to decide to trust it or not. | ||
===The Distant Past=== | ===The Distant Past=== | ||