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====== Your mind makes it real ======

Jotting this down before I forget. Atavists believe that widespread beliefs can manifest as entities with agency over real space. They also craft mythologies for their self isolating communities. Put those two together and you get Atavists constructing mythologies in order to influence the Noosphere to make those mythologies real, like a society-wide version of Fosters Home for Imaginary Friends.



I can see Atavist missionaries making up random stuff they think is cool and preaching some new religion around it in order to manifest those beliefs in realspace by sheer weight of numbers.



Thing is, you can’t just want something to be true in order to effect the Noosphere. It’s not something you can will into existence. You have to BELIEVE it to be true in the same way you believe two plus two is four, and so you get these self isolating communities in order to make it easier to raise pups believing these things.



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