The Perception Algorithm dictates that perceived reality – perceived reality being just a fancy way of describing day-to-day life inside the now thirty-plus-thousand Earth models like this one – is locked in a reflexive, in some ways even tidal relationship with artistic expression. Because of this, both objective and subjective reality can directly affect and alter – even reshape – perceived reality here, just as the Earth and moon have done to each other through the ages. Centuries of aesthetes were right, even if they couldn’t prove it themselves – popular culture quite literally changes
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