Finger Painting New Realities
Another conceivable "course of study", and reason for the creation of such a "Flatland University", would depend on which interpretation of quantum mechanics is closest to reality.
If we assume that the Copenhagen interpretation, and in particular, the Copenhagen Interpretation including Wheeler's Participatory Anthropic Principle (essentially that only consciousness can collapse the quantum-wave function, thereby creating reality out of probability), is correct, then a new curriculum in Flatland University becomes logical. If consciousness collapses the quantum-wave function (QWF), then what we "pay attention to" is all that can be manifested into what we perceive as reality (in It-from-Bit terms reality only means what we all perceive). Without some level of consciousness somewhere, popping some part of the QWF, our universe would evolve as one giant QWF, encompassing every possible outcome, of every possible combination, of potential events (i.e., just as the QWF of the electron passes through the two slits, interacting with itself as a wave, all matter and energy would only exist as one cosmically large wave of probability).
Consider our ability to manifest specific reality from the potential outcomes encompassed in the QWF. We obviously do this every moment of our lives. From choosing what shirt to wear in the morning, to deciding whom to vote for as President, we create specific realities through our physical interaction with the universe, every moment.
Many people believe that it is also possible to create specific paths in reality by exercising only our consciousness through prayer, meditation, the power of positive thinking, the secret, etc.
The convoluted model I am proposing out has a payoff; it seems to me it could make intelligible most of the weirdness of the UFO/alien-abduction phenomenon, major religions, paranormal phenomenon, the power of prayer/positive thinking/The Secret, etc., by addressing the fundamental questions and resolving most of the seeming paradoxes of the 3 popular Interpretive Paradigms. Below is an analogy I find useful for thinking about this.
(Of course bad drugs in my youth can never be discounted as an explanation for my thinking any of this makes any sense.)
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