7.29.2011 While busy peeling apart the layers of code, John the Rational starts to have doubts. Where is the Earth in this system? John runs his software for over a week on every computer in his house and no coherent image reappears. He runs boundary tests looking for attractors. He invents simulators to feed in large vectors of possibility. Every piece of code is a finite state machine; there are only so many ways it can compute. But every state he analyses comes up empty.

His surprising conclusion: the answer is not in the source code?!

John asks, "Did I really see coherence in noise or were my eyes playing tricks on me? Have I dreamed this?"

The Earth-like images from the program showed him a New future. Now they are destabilizing him.

"How can the answer be outside the system?"
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