After years of trying to make sense of life, it was learnings from my professional career that actually served a cross-over purpose and gave me the philosophical framework I needed to make progress on a theory of everything.
As a software engineer I had been looking for a pattern as a basis for a data structure. After years of research I concluded that the most powerful data structure would model actual reality. So I came up with a structure I called a “production” – the idea was to capture all the data associated with an event in a flexible and powerful format.
But the format is also equally descriptive of my actual life experience and neatly describes the most important characteristics of reality. Once I realized that I was able to use productions to understand my own experience, many aspects of my reality fell into place.
First and foremost, a production is a relationship between me and something or someone else. At it’s base, the production
In this relationship I play a role, which determines certain beliefs and behaviors. Generally there are other people playing roles in the group as well.
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