Alex on Correspondence

Dude.

"What is space made out of anyway?"

"Dude..."

In antiquity, the practice of Correspondence relied on the idea of a correspondence point, a one singular "all space" that could be traveled too and from to get shit done.

While this approach has some merit (and clearly has been successful in the past), it ultimately begs the question by assuming that the way to organize and understand space is to postulate a single, transcendent space. But then how then are we to understand and organize that transcendent space?

Virtual Adepts prefer to avoid conceptualizing space as having substance or extension in the world. Rather, we view all the world as encoded, multi-dimensional data arrayed in sundry ways. Space, then, is less of a physical reality and more of a data storage platform for the universe. As such, "teleportation" is little more than "ctrl+X, ctrl+V." Collapsing space and such is simply finding alternative ways compress the universe's data. Some VAs refer to the array used to store data as the Universal Matrix.