Editing Ontology:Q776 (section)

== Usage notes ==

This is the non-fictional motif of individual people having a horizon around themselves in which other people have a limited to nonexistent ability either to predict how they might respond to an action or to control other people's actions. This motif is not perfectly synonymous with terms such as "free will" or "the subject". It is only one component of these proposed processes, which unlike such other components such as "the ability to do otherwise" is relatively easy to observe and detail within the material world. How many possible actions can any particular person take in response to a given ordinary daily occurrence? Can you even begin to guess at the ratio of which outcomes are more likely? Is it possible that people who are expected to do some particular thing will spontaneously do something else which they were not supposed to do? You may have just observed the beginning and end of the Vegeta effect: the apparent or hypothesized phenomenon of individual people (and possibly other organisms) behaving in quantum-like ways inasmuch as there is always unknown information about them and information about a person [[redlink - quantum measurement problem|cannot be obtained without interacting with and changing the person]].

This similarity, although it is not well investigated by science, is very interesting in terms of the known scientific problem of unifying relativity with quantum mechanics. Einstein's theory of general relativity showed that time could be split apart somewhere close to the physical scale of the smallest units of light. When photons were discovered, it only fed into an accumulating model of a universe that could be split into many levels of discrete units, or at least units which were [[redlink - particle-wave duality|"very close to" discrete]] despite apparent incidents of recombining with each other. If spacetime can be split away from light, and light can be split, what are the scales or processes in between those two kinds of divisions? How big [[redlink - quantum gravity|or small]] is the place that gravity comes from? Studying people will not provide any direct answers on gravity, but it may provide vague insights on time. Are human beings somehow analogous to the quanta of human history? If so, at least two interesting questions come up. A) Do we need to study time as the interaction between people, or in the case of particles, very small separate objects? Is this the way to introduce relativity? B) Should we regard history like a plurality of many <em>different</em> chemical compounds rather than like a linear progression of all the hydrogen in the sun gradually turning into helium?

The potential implications of social event horizons are a major inspiration for [[Ontology:Q92|meta-Marxism]], as well as the more immediate study of [[:Category:Existential materialism ontology|existential materialism]] to characterize how they themselves even function. Although, [[Ontology:Q1980|for some]], this concept can instead be a prompt to double down on the theme of "free will" somehow explaining history.


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