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The Thing
Alright, so, yesterday, I and a few other people noticed an issue with a few of the Minecraft profiles. Namely The Player and The Entities; to quote the latter's AP justification:
To summarize it: We treat The Player as transcending the entire world of Minecraft, given that they created its entirety as a dream (Or a "small, private world") of theirs, alongside several different worlds of a similar nature, some of which are part of a nested structure of dreams within dreams, where The Player awakes from one dream and into another, only to wake up one more time, into a third dream.
The End Poem entities, meanwhile, are described as existing on a higher level of existence than The Player, and perceive even the Real World in which the latter lives as being itself another dream, although a long one, different in nature from the short, ephemeral dreams represented by the different worlds and stories which humans experience in their lifetimes.
Needless to say, this isn't 2-B. It's 1-C, given that the exact scale would then be more or less like this:
And this, for the matter, is very clearly supposed to be an hierarchy of levels of existence, given that the entities of the End Poem very explicitly state that, by dreaming up a story, The Player is creating entirely real worlds within their own thoughts:
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Furthermore, the entities themselves repeatedly discuss ideas and concepts which are beyond the comprehension of The Player by virtue of originating from what is explicitly "the highest level" beyond "the long dream of life," and they even refer to these truths as being too strong for lower realities to bear at one point:
For reference, here are more instances where they refer to the real world as being just another dream:
And the paragraph where they describe The Player's nested dreams. In this case, we'd take the baseline to be a structure similar to that of the Minecraft World, at least, since the text doesn't seem to indicate they are delving deeper into dreams, but rather just creating worlds much like the others, only to wake up into higher worlds at random:
If it wasn't clear by now, the "long dream of life" is nothing more than the dream of the universe itself, which exists as a monad beyond any separation, and utilizes beings such as The Player as assets so that it may experience itself, and the poem even compares it to the act of something "reading its own code."
This for the matter, would also grant Transduality to the entities, since "they" aren't really the universe as a literal, sentient organism and moreso a level where any distinction between any given thing disappears, and everything turns out to be a single force, with any separations being illusory and blah blah blah. Given the details above, their Intelligence should also be changed to Omniscient, for obvious reasons.
And, speaking of which: The profile itself should have its name changed, because the beings from the End Poem are never identified as "The Entities" at any point. In fact, the closest thing they have to a canon name is "The Universe," since the entire point of the poem is that they are not really two separate beings, but a single thing, expressing itself in different ways. So, the new name will be just that.
TL;DR The Player and The Entities should be 1-C, not 2-B.
Oh, yeah, and The Player's Real World key should lose Resurrection, too, since death being a temporary inconvenience to them pretty clearly refers to the fact that their incarnation within the game world can respawn after being killed.
The Thing
Alright, so, yesterday, I and a few other people noticed an issue with a few of the Minecraft profiles. Namely The Player and The Entities; to quote the latter's AP justification:
To summarize it: We treat The Player as transcending the entire world of Minecraft, given that they created its entirety as a dream (Or a "small, private world") of theirs, alongside several different worlds of a similar nature, some of which are part of a nested structure of dreams within dreams, where The Player awakes from one dream and into another, only to wake up one more time, into a third dream.
The End Poem entities, meanwhile, are described as existing on a higher level of existence than The Player, and perceive even the Real World in which the latter lives as being itself another dream, although a long one, different in nature from the short, ephemeral dreams represented by the different worlds and stories which humans experience in their lifetimes.
Needless to say, this isn't 2-B. It's 1-C, given that the exact scale would then be more or less like this:
- Minecraft World/Private Worlds in general = Low 2-C to 2-C (4-D)
- Further Dreams = Low 1-C (Second dream being 5-D, and the third dream 6-D)
- Real World = 1-C (7-D)
- Entities = 1-C (8-D)
And this, for the matter, is very clearly supposed to be an hierarchy of levels of existence, given that the entities of the End Poem very explicitly state that, by dreaming up a story, The Player is creating entirely real worlds within their own thoughts:
Credit Sequence
The Credit sequence is the lines of text and music that play when the player uses the Exit portal. This includes the End Poem, a freehand poem written by musician Julian Gough and the Credits, which serve to recognize those that have contributed to the game. After entering the End dimension and...
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Furthermore, the entities themselves repeatedly discuss ideas and concepts which are beyond the comprehension of The Player by virtue of originating from what is explicitly "the highest level" beyond "the long dream of life," and they even refer to these truths as being too strong for lower realities to bear at one point:
For reference, here are more instances where they refer to the real world as being just another dream:
And the paragraph where they describe The Player's nested dreams. In this case, we'd take the baseline to be a structure similar to that of the Minecraft World, at least, since the text doesn't seem to indicate they are delving deeper into dreams, but rather just creating worlds much like the others, only to wake up into higher worlds at random:
If it wasn't clear by now, the "long dream of life" is nothing more than the dream of the universe itself, which exists as a monad beyond any separation, and utilizes beings such as The Player as assets so that it may experience itself, and the poem even compares it to the act of something "reading its own code."
This for the matter, would also grant Transduality to the entities, since "they" aren't really the universe as a literal, sentient organism and moreso a level where any distinction between any given thing disappears, and everything turns out to be a single force, with any separations being illusory and blah blah blah. Given the details above, their Intelligence should also be changed to Omniscient, for obvious reasons.
And, speaking of which: The profile itself should have its name changed, because the beings from the End Poem are never identified as "The Entities" at any point. In fact, the closest thing they have to a canon name is "The Universe," since the entire point of the poem is that they are not really two separate beings, but a single thing, expressing itself in different ways. So, the new name will be just that.
TL;DR The Player and The Entities should be 1-C, not 2-B.
Oh, yeah, and The Player's Real World key should lose Resurrection, too, since death being a temporary inconvenience to them pretty clearly refers to the fact that their incarnation within the game world can respawn after being killed.
