acknowledgments

There were several seminal events in the creation of this book, the first being when I (Joe) again looked through Stan Davis’ Future Perfect and flashed on No-Matter as an extension of Matter in the three-dimensional graph of the Universe. That immediately led to the depiction of the Multiverse just as shown in Figure 1.2, but I had no idea what any of the octants were other than Reality and Virtuality (which underwent many name changes as the work progressed).

That was over a decade ago. I continued to play around with the framework off and on, figuring out Augmented Reality and Mirrored Virtuality (thanks to David Gelernter’s wonderful Mirror Worlds, the original name for that octant), but I still had trouble with the rest. ...

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