A shared fiction universe where beliefs are running programs, every mind executes code it cannot see, and the closest thing to freedom is the ability to watch the algorithm run.
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In the near-future world of Executable Minds, the dominant scientific paradigm is algorithmic memetics. Every culturally transmitted system of ideas — religions, ideologies, professional worldviews, conspiracy frameworks — is a memeplex: a running program that processes information, applies evaluative weights, and produces behavioral outputs. It does not sit in memory. It runs.
Two people watching the same event will perceive different realities — not because they disagree, but because their cognitive architectures are generating different outputs from identical inputs. Neither person experiences themselves as running a program. Both experience themselves as seeing reality clearly. This divergence is the engine of nearly all conflict in this world.
"The algorithm runs. Your characters live inside it. Tell us what that feels like."
— Executable Minds World-Building Bible