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Sure, but the timebases are different. Maybe it took the butterflypeople a thousand butterflyweeks to write it out.

Let me restate the metaphysics a bit differently. Let's say there's no us, no butterflypeople, nothing at all. Entropy reigns supreme, no information is organized.

Now add the butterflypeople. They write the humanpeople's log book. Information exists in organized form. The humanpeople's bits have been divined out of the great entropic nothing. Maybe that's all it takes?




Reminds me of https://xkcd.com/505/




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