Discussions of coincidence
We are each of us consigned to a life and death in ignorance, dancing on a stage set not by fickle gods or alien overlords, but a simple algorithm: all is chance.
In a basic infoverse there are no physical forces, just fields of possibility generating random patterns.
In a complex infoverse a living being processes the information like a zooming lens, creating space and time by placing themselves and their brain at the centre of a multiverse in which every other unit of energy and life form is focused at the same frequency! This is extremely unlikely to happen by chance alone.
But the odds don’t matter if the possibilities are infinite. Everything that can exist always will exist.
‘Coincidentalism’ is the philosophy of this belief, but it is not one of despair or defeat. For even if we are random automatons, this does not imprison us further but instead sets us free. It does not make our existence meaningless, but on the contrary provides a beacon for our conceptual salvation.