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Dadalus, Icarus, Monty, Disney & Verses


Should the Multiverse follow the reality of laws of physics, deities, of Monty or laws of Disney?

One compared with the other: which one would create more or less experiences of unethical proportions & augmented alienating disconnect? The physically dropping of the ball, the cartoonish fall, the proverbial drop of the ball, Icarus’ fall as a ball or a bold dropping, as the character in Monty Python’s sketch, stepping out of the board meeting’s window as the solution to negotiation? Free Guy’s ball? A link between physics & ethics

One might ponder how it is that physical reality might create unethical virtual spaces

Somehow my intuition screams at me that this is so obvious that it should not be questioned. I am in luck though. I am not an expert on ethics, nor on falling with little physical consequence. I have limits, you see

Let’s take the biologist J.B.S. Haldane, as our guiding rail. He gore-ishly premonishened it in 1926: “You can drop a mouse down a thousand-yard mine shaft; &, on arriving at the bottom, it gets a slight shock and walks away, provided that the ground is fairly soft. A rat is killed, a man is broken, a horse splashes. For the resistance presented to movement by the air is proportional to the surface of the moving object. Divide an animal’s length, breadth, and height each by ten; its weight is reduced to a thousandth, but its surface only to a hundredth. So the resistance to falling in the case of the small animal is relatively ten times greater than the driving force

This idea opens up a can of worms. A meeting, in physical reality, with a less-than-humane boss, might result in fists flying or cups hurdling. Will the unethical abuse, supported by the physical laws, exist in a multiverse’s boss-fight? Or, will the laws be artifiwashed, virtuwashed, realwashed?

The latter could mean that reality will be claimed but something will feel ever so slightly off. Perhaps this will be in the manner of Disney’s sensibility of telling the story of the real by making an object bounce in a most exuberant manner & deformation, so for the audience to sense reality ad absurdum

Besides those of physics we could consider the more fluid laws of biology. Will the ideal multiverse have completed the eradication of species’ diversity or will its creator have “an inordinate fondness of beetles, ” to continue quoting Haldane. If not for beetles, how many stars will one be able to see in that imagined version of the multiverse?

Trivialities, you say? Then let us debate the designed environments & how minimalist, open or maximalist & cubicled one’s physical monoverse should compare to maximized performance in its multiverse counterpart

Russell, in reponse to Haldane’s 1924’s Daedalus, felt compelled that science could be used to “promote the power of dominant groups, rather than to make men happy. Icarus, …, was destroyed by his rashness.

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Epilogue — …and for the poetic justice of it all:

“What are his nets and gins and traps; and how does he surround him With cold floods of abstraction, and with forests of solitude, To build him castles and high spires, where kings and priests may dwell” (William Blake, Visions of the Daughters of Albion via Ludlow, 2007)


References:

“Free Guy”(2021). https://www.wired.com/story/would-the-free-guy-inflatable-bubble-protect-a-real-person/

Ludlow, P. & Mark Wallace. (2007). “The Second Life Herald. The Virtual Tabloid that Witnessed the Dawn of the Metaverse.”

Haldane, J. B. S., & Dronamraju, K. R. (1963). Book reviews: “The Truth about Death”. Journal of Genetics, 58(3), 450–464. doi:10.1007/bf02986312 

Haldane, J. B. S.(1926). On Being the Right Size. https://www.phys.ufl.edu/courses/phy3221/spring10/HaldaneRightSize.pdf

Haldane, J. B. S. (1924, 1928) Daedalus; or, Science and the Future.

Russell, (1924). Icarus or The Future of Science

The latter two might also be of interest to those open to contemplate transhumanism and the likes.