CHIM, Zero summing and inconsistency in what MK said : The Elder Scrolls Series Discussion

» Mon May 07, 2012 10:15 am

That's basically it, but no math has to be involved. We don't exist as individual beings because we are the figment of the Godhead's imagination. We exist as individual beings because we perceive ourselves as such. The moment one realizes that he is just a part of a dream, along with everyone else, he no longer sees himself as an individual, and hence he ceases to exist (is becomes nothing, zero-sums).

That math is really just another metaphor.

Where the 1 represents you, the -1 represents everything you are not.

The realisation that you and everything you are not is an illusion, is the combination of both concepts in one person, the zero-summing.

» Tue May 08, 2012 1:01 am

but "Zero-sum" is any integer plus it's inverse = 0.

Just like a "bank" is a financial institution. And an edge of a body of water. Sorry, but your whole theory is a case of Missing The Point?.

I guess CHIM is like having a lucid-dream, inside Godhead's imagination. Where you realize that you're in a dream, but instead of awaking, you remain in the dream-state, fully aware that you're dreaming and can manipulate and bend environment at will.

That, on the other hand, is pretty accurate.

» Mon May 07, 2012 9:39 pm

Just like a "bank" is a financial institution. And an edge of a body of water. Sorry, but your whole theory is a case of Missing The Point?.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-sum

» Mon May 07, 2012 9:14 am

The math bit is just a schema to help understand something. I'm guessing the poster was more math oriented, so he used math to explain it. Whatever helps.

» Mon May 07, 2012 4:57 pm

The Dwemer's plan for ascension to god-hood through Numidium is referred to as "anti-creation".
http://imperial-library.info/content/final-report-trebonius

That is anti-creation as in reversing the creation of the mortal plane and all it's effects on it's creators. Or in case of the Dwemer, probebly just reversing those bits that were Dwemer and everything else be damned.