On Thu, 24 Feb 2022 19:24:00 +0000, Timothy Collinson
<xxxxxx@port.ac.uk> wrote:

>p38-42
>
>Gefter, Amanda – Quantum Perspective
>
>“Perhaps this is telling us that until two people interact, they don’t
>share the same reality- because it is the communication itself that creates
>it.”
>
>We see this in the Traveller universe.  Until MWM communicates his vision
>of Charted Space to his players (and subsequently to the wider Traveller
>community) it doesn’t exist.  It’s their communication, the shared
>adventuring, that creates it.  If MWM had ‘only’ written a novel – even one
>rich with fanfic – would Charted Space be the same as what has developed in
>the last half century?  [Which gives me further pause to reflect: Is the
>same true of our interaction with God and our experience of space/time?!]

One of my favorite
I-think-I-coined-it-but-with-my-trick-memory-I-can't-be-sure lines for many
years has been "Reality is only that part of imagination that we all agree
on"

Bonus reference to my periodic polite rant here, "In Re Canon".

Bonus bonus reference to Heinlein's _"The Number of the Beast--"_ and _The
Pursuit of the Pankera_.

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