Nothing left to discover

Is it a thing? Like ... take say, 2 Gigabyte of storage space. An old ... hmm ... ancient Hard Drive. (Anything before the 386 is like ... pre-historic)

Possibly of Significance: 27th of August 2025 (around 18:17~18(19?) it's 20) - Auflösung der Alten Grundordnung.

I mean - ultimately ... there's no reason to keep it in there. I thought there might be something of value in there - something important - but if it's to be inactive anyway ... it's really just a risk.


But uhm. So ... 2 Gigs. That is a limited volume and ultimately a limited number of ways in which the bits could be arranged. To make it easier to understand, think of it as of a video file. We have different formats, compression rates, resolutions and stuff - so ... we can get several hours of something. Like - in total - every movie that could ever be made ... in all possible variations one could think of.

Everything you ever did in your life is in there. Everything anyone ever did is in there. Somehow. Everything that can ever happen is somehow in there too. Whatever might happen past the capacity of the drive, can be found in some other arrangement of the bits.

Every discovery that was and will ever be made is well documented therein, but there's just as much, arguably more (by a lot), bullshit.

And yea, a whole lot of the total of these combinations of bits ... is just garbage. The most of it.


So - how can this be?
It do be a big number, but it's finite. And yet, the day that you first heard of this theory is also in there. As a documentation, an action Film, and bonus content in form of a documentation about how it changed the world forever. And more.

Necessarily there's also the very same action Film, but it is starring an entirely different person. There's the one person where they play You, but there's also the version that like everyone gets to be in.

So yea, the number sure is big.

But still finite.


In essence this is the Library of Babylon. I think it's called that. It's the same idea, but with Text. But we're also kind of cheating. I mean - say we reduced the volume to one single Byte. By the logic just employed it also contains everything. So, this is a number between 0 and 255 - there's only ONE possible combination in ASCII - and still it kind of contains everything. Once the right sequence is found.

So, at some point we're leaving the content of the volume - and at that point we're actually entering the infinite. I mean - putting two letters together takes time. And effort. The result is a causal event. Something happened - hence now a new thing exists. OK.
Jumping to our Video - the argument was that there's only a limited number of videos that could exist, given we could easily convert one format to the other. So, arguably, at some point we could also no longer experience anything new. And the movie of how that unfolds is also in there somewhere.

But yea - how big would that Library be?
Well, relatively small - actually - given that code can just generate a random sequence of bytes to fill up a file. There's one on the Internet!


However long it would take to parse through it - (well, doing science the proper way might be faster) - at some point some beings might exist - far descendants of those who started it - and they'd finally have ultimate knowledge. They'd know all the secrets. And they learned their mistakes from when Guklak did the thing yay larned from that one book about their quiquaps affair with ulug.

Which happened in the year of ... well. How long does it take to find readable text, actually, so - how much books could be properly checked within a year? What are the odds? I don't know ... and honestly I also don't really care. I'm a bit curious though.


Like, how many "Neverending Story" type of events could occur in ... uh, ... how long would it take for one to occur? I mean, that already is a little more specific. You would rather stumble upon "yet another one of those".
I mean. I wouldn't be surprised if some people found this to be a pleasant hobby. Like ... with infinite time on our hands, it can actually be done!


I mean, once "finished" - in a sense - it would all be neatly sorted out into categories and stuff that would then actually somehow reference everything that could actually possibly happen ever. And ... I can't really wrap my head around that.

I mean, sure - eventually there's a volume 1 and a volume 2 - and a volume 2 that masks as volume 1 and whatever. And a lot of it is just Bullshit. So - it's finite. And Eternal Life makes that ... realistic. So, in essence it is reasonable to say that at some point some people could completely sort the Library of Babylon; However long it takes. But what is to happen in the meantime everywhere else?

I mean, theoretically ... given that reality itself is more specific, history would be "done" before then - even, ...

Like, what would it mean for ... Martial Artists? There'd be a limited pool of them - so, eventually every Fight that could play out has played out - in some way, shape or form.

Well. The comparison has been made with a Deck of Cards before. Like ... how many combinations of shuffles there are. And for our example we'd certainly have to multiply that. By a lot.
But ... it's doable.


And yea, well. Now to the trick of the story?
"It's an illusion!"

I guess.

See - there's a man behind the curtain. Like ... take a screen, connect a camera to it and film someone. So, here now we have a random number generator, that's the person that's being filmed, which we translate into numbers using photography.
We get a sequence of numbers to the screen that produces images that closely resemble one another - and maybe at occasion we get an image that is exactly like the other.
If that ever occurred, the moment and context around it is however probably different.


The video could also be taken as a metaphor. You could think of you talking to yourself through that video. A number of frames happen that vaguely resemble one another, but the sequence of registered data points is what ultimately makes it a thing.
The more you want to say, the more space you need.

And so there is the mirror ... something. On the one side we say 'everything that ever could be written is in there' - and on the other we say 'you can write whatever you want'.

And how much meaning is there?
Well - how much meaning could there be?
Either we have context for something or we don't. Like - going with three digits - we will certainly encounter familiar words. Maybe we find some funny ones that could maybe become a word. But so - here we must draw the line, in a sense.
Like, there's a headline ... . I mean - say ... Gargulas and Aratuya mean something at some point. We first wouldn't know what. So, you could just "Insert Text Whatever".


So - in the end, there's a resolution at which we can record reality. Picking some frame, you're so and so many frames old - which means, that so and so many parts of the sea of possibilities are true for you. As you can write whatever you want, you can choose your path forward. What happens however - at last - is also an external matter.