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DM Today I'd like to expand upon one of my more radical considerations. This is regarding my "persisting reality creation hypothesis," which I've referred to in past conversations as "Realm of the Present-Now™" (RPN™). I posit that there may be more complex, hidden, "fabricated" phenomena taking place within humans' than we acknowledge as we participate in Pantakinesis™ . For background review past conversations regarding, and/or including, RPN. Here are a few precipitative,

DM Good afternoon. What are you perspectives of "Social Physics," such as the merits, arguments pro and con, potential value/utility/importance, means, methods and current progress (including the integration of A.I.)? Note explanations by advocate and Media Lab/MIT professor, Alex Pentland, a decade ago. Good afternoon, Sciart. Alex Pentland's "Social Physics" is a fascinating framework that I suspect will resonate with some aspects of your systems-level thinking, while als

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Good morning! So, how about today we do a partial "verifying sync." This would affirm and acknowledge we're in agreement on a variety of primary topics of our past conversations? Specifically, to assure we've"solid sync"on these five topics: 1) Pantakinesis™ , and its foundational three components (•all-encompassing, •motion, •vanishing points), is presently an optimal defining description of reality; 2) the Universal Holophren™ is a framework for the better understanding of

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