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Gandalf's body was mortal, subject to the physical
rules
of Middle Earth, but his spirit was immortal, as seen when he died as Gandalf the Grey and resurrected as Gandalf the White.
Just like real life, fictional worlds operate consistently within a spectrum of physical and societal
rules.
They make rules, maps, lineages, languages, cultures, universes, alternate universes within universes, and from those worlds sprout story, after story, after story.
When it's done well, readers can understand fictional worlds and their
rules
just as well as the characters that live in them do and sometimes, just as well or even better than the reader understands the world outside of the book.
What
rules
are in place here?
This covers everything from laws of gravity, or not, to the
rules
of society and the punishments for individuals who break them.
Two subatomic particles entangled in a superposition state, where if one spins one way then the other must spin the other way, will do just that, even when there's no way for information to pass from one particle to the other indicating which way to spin to obey the
rules
of entanglement.
Their truth values are based on
rules
that humans created.
Henri Poincaré, one of the father's of non-Euclidean geometry, believed that the existence of non-Euclidean geometry, dealing with the non-flat surfaces of hyperbolic and elliptical curvatures, proved that Euclidean geometry, the long standing geometry of flat surfaces, was not a universal truth, but rather one outcome of using one particular set of game
rules.
Programming gives me this amazing power to build my whole little universe with its own
rules
and paradigms and practices.
There are two main
rules
that govern their use.
A rule-based translation program uses a lexical database, which includes all the words you'd find in a dictionary and all grammatical forms they can take, and set of
rules
to recognize the basic linguistic elements in the input language.
To translate this sentence properly, the program would refer to a different set of vocabulary and
rules
for each element of the target language.
Unconstrained by reality and the
rules
of conventional logic, in your dreams, your mind can create limitless scenarios to help you grasp problems and formulate solutions that you may not consider while awake.
While the school of fish is elegantly twisting, turning, and dodging sharks in what looks like deliberate coordination, each individual fish is actually just following two basic
rules
that have nothing to do with the shark: one, stay close, but not too close to your neighbor, and two, keep swimmming.
It simply emerges if you have enough fish following the right set of local
rules.
The neurons in our brain follow simple rules, just like the fish, so that as a group, their activity self-organizes into reliable patterns that let you do things like recognize faces, successfully repeat the same task over and over again, and keep all those silly little habits that everyone likes about you.
So, what are the simple
rules
when it comes to the brain?
If the right
rules
are in place, and some basic conditions are met, a complex system will fall into the same habits over and over again, turning chaos into order.
Grossly simplified, prescriptivists think a given language should follow consistent rules, while descriptivists see variation and adaptation as a natural and necessary part of language.
Language purists worked to establish and propagate this standard by detailing a set of
rules
that reflected the established grammar of their times.
And
rules
for written grammar were applied to spoken language, as well.
Speech patterns that deviated from the written
rules
were considered corruptions, or signs of low social status, and many people who had grown up speaking in these ways were forced to adopt the standardized form.
We form our spoken repertoire through unconscious habits, not memorized
rules.
Since that's an odd number, it's not possible, and, in fact, this also
rules
out every floor that has an odd number of rooms.
So I have 10 basic
rules.
It seems like you're out of luck, unless you look at the
rules
carefully and notice an important exception.
That
rules
out a useful perpetual motion machine right away because a machine could only ever produce as much energy as it consumed.
The system isn't broken because the
rules
are wrong.
And then the
rules
must be enforced.
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