This is exactly what we do as educators. We find 'glitches in the simulation' - in other words, we point to 'attractors' that would otherwise be bits of random noise in the background of a person's existence. The person pays attention to that particular location, and finds something odd - a regularity, a set of identical cats, a green shopping bag containing a pair of Nikes propped up on a Burger King table. And between us we create a story that ties all these glitches together, a grand theory, if you will, about life and the universe. There's nothing in those things themselves that makes the theory true. But once we start accepting it as true, we begin to recognize it in everything. Even if it's just an attractor created by a random number generator. This, then, is the story of the Randonauts.
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