"But the gods are smart, or at least are supposed to have very high measured intelligence compared to a human in whatever system you're using, and it sounded from other things you said like they had coordination down.  Is there a metagod with even more alien desires who built the afterlives?  It doesn't sound like that either, and it doesn't sound like the afterlives are as simple and non-functional as mountains, or rivers.  There's something they're doing, but I can't think of anything they'd be trying to do, such that somebody is doing it optimally given their resources.  That kind of halfassedness can be a signature of hereditary-selection - the process I was talking about that built humans, systematic accretion of errors according to a fitness metric which in biology is reproduction - but it doesn't quite sound like that either..."

"You asked if my trying to situate my lectures inside of - everything - was a dath ilani thing or a me thing.  It's both.  We're used to knowing where we are inside a larger reality and where all of the order is coming from and why it's there.  There's pranks that get played on us as children which try to teach us to operate when we're wrong about things and when we don't know why certain things are happening, so we won't end up mentally fragile and unable to deal with confusion.  But the fact is that I'm used to knowing to within 0.1% exactly how old my universe is, and the names and qualities of every kind of tiny part of reality that we haven't reduced to tinier parts.  Not knowing that does feel quite disorienting, like I'm constantly flailing around trying to figure out where the foundations of reality are."

"But the gods are smart, or at least are supposed to have very high measured intelligence compared to a human in whatever system you're using, and it sounded from other things you said like they had coordination down.  Is there a metagod with even more alien desires who built the afterlives?  It doesn't sound like that either, and it doesn't sound like the afterlives are as simple and non-functional as mountains, or rivers.  There's something they're doing, but I can't think of anything they'd be trying to do, such that somebody is doing it optimally given their resources.  That kind of halfassedness can be a signature of hereditary-selection - the process I was talking about that built humans, systematic accretion of errors according to a fitness metric which in biology is reproduction - but it doesn't quite sound like that either..."

"You asked if my trying to situate my lectures inside of - everything - was a dath ilani thing or a me thing.  It's both.  We're used to knowing where we are inside a larger reality and where all of the order is coming from and why it's there.  There's pranks that get played on us as children which try to teach us to operate when we're wrong about things and when we don't know why certain things are happening, so we won't end up mentally fragile and unable to deal with confusion.  But the fact is that I'm used to knowing to within 0.1% exactly how old my universe is, and the names and qualities of every kind of tiny part of reality that we haven't reduced to tinier parts.  Not knowing that does feel quite disorienting, like I'm walking on air constantly trying to figure out what's holding up my feet."

"But the gods are smart, or at least are supposed to have very high measured intelligence compared to a human in whatever system you're using, and it sounded from other things you said like they had some coordination.  Is there a metagod with even more alien desires who built the afterlives?  It doesn't sound like that either, and it doesn't sound like the afterlives are as simple and non-functional as mountains, or rivers.  There's something the afterlives are doing, but I can't think of anything a smart entity could be trying to do, such that those afterlives are doing it optimally given their resources.  That kind of halfassedness can be a signature of hereditary-selection - the process I was talking about that built humans, systematic accretion of errors according to a fitness metric which in biology is reproduction - but it doesn't quite sound like that either..."

"You asked if my trying to situate my lectures inside of - everything - was a dath ilani thing or a me thing.  It's both.  We're used to knowing where we are inside a larger reality and where all of the order is coming from and why it's there.  There's pranks that get played on us as children which try to teach us to operate when we're wrong about things and when we don't know why certain things are happening, so we won't end up mentally fragile and unable to deal with confusion.  But the fact is that I'm used to knowing to within 0.1% exactly how old my universe is, and the names and qualities of every kind of tiny part of reality that we haven't reduced to tinier parts.  Not knowing that does feel quite disorienting, like I'm walking on air constantly trying to figure out what's holding up my feet."

"But the gods are smart, or at least are supposed to have very high measured intelligence compared to a human in whatever system you're using, and it sounded from other things you said like they had some coordination.  Is there a metagod with even more alien desires who built the afterlives?  It doesn't sound like that either, and it doesn't sound like the afterlives are as simple and non-functional as mountains, or rivers.  There's something the afterlives are doing, but I can't think of anything a smart entity could be trying to do, such that those afterlives are doing it optimally given their resources.  That kind of halfassedness can be a signature of hereditary-selection - the process I was talking about that built humans, systematic accretion of errors according to a fitness metric which in biology is reproduction - but it doesn't quite sound like that either..."

"You asked if my trying to situate my lectures inside of - everything - was a dath ilani thing or a me thing.  It's both.  We're used to knowing where we are inside a larger reality and where all of the order is coming from and why it's there.  There's pranks that get played on us as children which try to teach us to operate when we're wrong about things and when we don't know why things are happening, so we won't end up mentally fragile and unable to deal with confusion.  But the fact is that I'm used to knowing to within 0.1% exactly how old my universe is, and the names and qualities of every kind of tiny part of reality that we haven't reduced to tinier parts.  Not knowing that does feel quite disorienting, like I'm walking on air constantly trying to figure out what's holding up my feet."

"But the gods are smart, or at least are supposed to have very high measured intelligence compared to a human in whatever system you're using, and it sounded from other things you said like they had some coordination.  Is there a metagod with even more alien desires who built the afterlives?  It doesn't sound like that either, and it doesn't sound like the afterlives are as simple and non-functional as mountains, or rivers.  There's something the afterlives are doing, but I can't think of anything a smart entity could be trying to do, such that those afterlives are doing it optimally given their resources.  That kind of halfassedness can be a signature of hereditary-selection - the process I was talking about that built humans, systematic accretion of errors according to a fitness metric which in biology is reproduction - but it doesn't quite sound like that either..."

"You asked if my trying to situate my lectures inside of - everything - was a dath ilani thing or a me thing.  It's both.  We're used to knowing where we are inside a larger reality and where all of the order is coming from and why it's there.  There's pranks that get played on us as children which try to teach us to operate when we're wrong about things, when we don't know why things are happening, so we won't end up mentally fragile and unable to deal with confusion.  But the fact is that I'm used to knowing to within 0.1% exactly how old my universe is, and the names and qualities of every kind of tiny part of reality that we haven't reduced to tinier parts.  Not knowing that does feel quite disorienting, like I'm walking on air constantly trying to figure out what's holding up my feet."