[Mr. Snyde]

Mr. Snyde’s TOE stems from the writings of Robert Anton Wilson (or as his fans call him …RAW ..which is what your brain will be after perusing his work) as well as the works of Alestair Crowley and Peter Carroll (two extreme individualists and practitioners of magic). Chaos Magick theory in particular hit a cord with me with its meta-belief that ‘belief structures reality’. It comes close to a TOE but misses the mark a bit. As one persons beliefs don’t necessarily hold true to another person’s reality.
‘An individual’s beliefs structures an individual’s reality.’ Comes a bit closer to what we need for a TOE. However it does not take into account the influence that other people’s beliefs also have on our perceived environment. For example, a man who truly believes he can fly and steps off a building to prove it most likely will plummet to the earth. Although once we adhere to a belief it becomes easy to find evidence that supports said belief while ignoring or dismissing the evidence that contradicts it, we can not entirely choose what we want to believe. We just have to look at the inhabitants and actions of the White House to prove this. And as Mr. Carroll points out- ‘However some beliefs plainly work more effectively than others and you can rarely use two contradictory beliefs simultaneously without creating a third.’
As a thespian, I have examined the nature of conflict closely, and to me all conflict at its core seems a conflict of belief. I’m hard pressed to find an example that shows otherwise. This conflict throws our belief systems into distress and has unpredictable results. Not all belief systems, when interacting, produce conflict however. When they do conflict, resolution comes by the formation of a third (or more) belief- as Mr. Carroll has succinctly stated.
Let’s look at the particle vs. wave scenario for a second. When testing an extremely small unit of energy, the quanta, to exhibit wave qualities the results come back positive. Different testers using a slightly different test get the quanta to exhibit particle qualities. Then someone came along and said that to fully understand the quanta we must accept it as both a particle and a wave. Can it be said that the quanta gives results in accordance with the beliefs of the tester? And if this basic building block of reality bends to the will of the observer, what effects do our beliefs have on ourselves and the world around us.

Thus…
Mr. Snyde’s Theory of Everything can be summed up in one simple postulate:

POSTULATE:
Reality consists of the amalgamation of beliefs held by all conscious things.

I believe this to be a relatively simple statement that is hard to argue with and now needs to be developed further with Theorems.
I'll get us started with one...

THEOREM:
Any conscious thing may be part of or consist of other conscious things.

I've included this theorem so as not to limit consciousness just to a single living entity. I think we can agree that there might be such things as cellular consciouness, collective consciousness, subconsciousness, etc.

Mr. Snyde needs your input. Please feel free to add Theorems and/or posit situations that are not covered by the above postulate. Mr. Snyde will continue to believe he has the universe figured out until his TOE is stubbed.
Any takers?

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I agree that it is the difference among cultures that causes war: traditions, lifestyles, religions, etc. It strains the robotic credibility of one's beliefs to see other methods next door.

Consciousness of experiences, while not fundamental, but a complex composite of 13.75 years of lucky combinations and growth, can reach certain collective thresholds such as the end of communism all over the world at about the same time.