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Grand Unifying Cosmological Mantle Theory [Series spoilers including MM WoJs]
the ghost lives:
Definitely an interesting discussion. I will come back to this with my own thoughts in a few days. Some of what is being postulated here is similar to thoughts I had about the Malazan universe prior to the first of the Kharkanas books being released.
Though I am a bit surprised you had not read the Amber series previously. That is among the classics. :)
Second Aristh:
Serack, how does your theory incorporate Odin's information from ch.21 of CD? From that, we get that parallel universes are created by splitting a "current" universe for all outcomes of an important decision. If we are going to have any kind of overarching theory of DV cosmology, we have to talk about time.
Serack:
--- Quote from: Second Aristh on June 22, 2014, 02:13:17 AM ---Serack, how does your theory incorporate Odin's information from ch.21 of CD? From that, we get that parallel universes are created by splitting a "current" universe for all outcomes of an important decision. If we are going to have any kind of overarching theory of DV cosmology, we have to talk about time.
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Edit: I was going to type out the passage, but hey, I've done enough of that...
Actually, that was talking about meddling with time causing a split universe with the alternate possibilities occurring. But there isn't much difference. Really, from that I like the discussion of the "law of conservation of history" where events have momentum and are difficult to change.
Otherwise, in my mind that all fits snuggly with the continuum of parallel universes and such...
hamiltond:
Excellent work, man. Kudos!
@ Serack: It seems, from what Uriel said about souls that the DF soul concept is based on Aristotle's "On the Soul" did you use any of this when you came up with your theory?
sythmaster:
This is a great theory / topic thread so far. I'm still parsing some of it.
However, I do have this question/thought though in relation to how the mortals spawn off new universes based on decisions (I couldn't find the exact wording, but I know it was based off of a WoJ).
However, we also know that (from Small Favor / copy-pasted from wiki) ....
--- Quote ---A mortal's Name can change over time due to how their perception of themselves can change, whereas most supernatural being's Name is static and unchanging.
--- End quote ---
Therefore, is this GUCMT have a side effect of how True Names for mortals persist, or can the True Names of mortals be used by the higher ups as a way of "routing" across the various universes (think like IP Addresses -- JB was an IT guy after all!)?
It's a bit of a side topic (/WAG-ish?) but I thought it an intriguing concept. I think it has other implications towards the plot of MM - but that's definitely a WAG.
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