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Something that has been getting to me for a while is (A) the Realmatic fact(oid) that Spiritual information is not spatiotemporally limited, but yet then (B) some sort of graph theory seems to apply to this information, in the form of "spiritwebs" (which always give me the vibe of the Sphere Grid from FFX).

Now I've been studying theories of words like "possibly" and "necessarily" called (extended) modal dimensionalism where possible versions of the world are really entire other worlds (or "world-sized" representations) that come with their own space-like grids (wrapped around/embedded onto spheres, even, on some depictions). On some such pictures, actuality is indexical: people in a given world perceive their world as actual, not merely possible, because they are in their world; on other such pictures, actuality is designated, as in specific points in the modal grid count as actual.

Might the Physical Realm, then, correspond to a spatial grid, the Cognitive to a temporal grid (think of mathematical intuitionism's view of time as the intuitive form of mathematical information, or how language processing occupies temporal intervals), and the Spiritual to a modal grid? Is this how there are still spacetime-like representations, "spiritwebs," of objects in the Spiritual Realm? (Note that extended modal dimensionalism has "impossible worlds" too, as "real" other (versions/representations of) worlds, but impossibility is not the contrary, but the contradictory, of possibility; so insofar as Shards are primarily Spiritual, their relative opposites, as Investiture, would not be absolute opposites in turn, but we would get that anti-Investiture is just Investiture under the relation of impossibility rather than possibility as such; but modality being so relativized as such, we would not be meaning to say that anti-Investiture itself is impossible, just as for the extended modal dimensionalist, impossible worlds as worlds are not impossible, but are so named on account of containing otherwise "impossible" objects.)

Bonus bizarreness: given Cognitive shenanigans, might it be possible(!) for an object's modal profile to change (in the cosmere)? Like if enough people, in a given region, believe in the indexical picture of actuality, then the Spiritual Realm's modal grid is fundamentally altered relative to that region, so that objects there are actualized indexically? Or maybe this is something so extreme it would take cosmere-wide Cognitive changes to effect the appropriate relativization. Maybe Adonalsium maintained a certain modal order and the process of Shattering it transformed the modal order drastically (like going from indexical to transcendental actuality). I would tend to think that the Spiritual Realm has "priority over" the Cognitive, but then again, the stories we experience are told mostly from the Physical POV, so... and Sel, for example, is supposed to be both (A) the most Realmatically aware zone but also (B) the one where magic is most geographically situated/locked).

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