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I get queasy when it comes to quantifiable numbers and elements of imagination. They don't go together as well as one would like to think, because there isn't a way to make a one-to-one correlation from strength to numbers. The human mind cannot comprehend the ebbs and flows of power associated with imagination, and we try to use the language of numbers to explain things.

The language of math and numbers does not explain fantasy, not at all. There aren't even concepts to support basic theories and truths. You would like to think so, to play a computer game, roll some dice, and defeat the dragon and its 88 hit points. You are putting one view of what can not be explained and should not through quantitation and geometric models.

Those don't work. This is not to say anything can happen, there are rules and limits, just ones not easily explained with numbers on a line. Drusilla's question is valid though, in relative meaning. If I am in Los Angeles, what is the relative distance between me and someone in New York? That can be rated in numbers.

The distance, however, depends greatly on context. In a plane? Hours away. On foot? Weeks. Your mind goes to time and speed, as math would have you think. My mind, having seen the truth, goes to imagining a context, and how easy that is, to get there the fastest.

The most powerful creatures of fantasy could simply open a door to get there.

The weakest would have to walk because they could not imagine a faster way for it to happen - and make that happen. They could wish they could open that door, but they could never see the way to do it.

Knowledge, and those built-in paths of what is how and the why of things, are the key.

-Vex

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I get queasy when it comes to quantifiable numbers and elements of imagination. They don't go together as well as one would like to think, because there isn't a way to make a one-to-one correlation from strength to numbers. The human mind cannot comprehend the ebbs and flows of power associated with imagination, and we try to use the language of numbers to explain things.

The language of math and numbers does not explain fantasy, not at all. There aren't even concepts to support basic theories and truths. You would like to think so, to play a computer game, roll some dice, and defeat the dragon and its 88 hit points. You are putting one view of what can not be explained and should not through quantitation and geometric models.

Those don't work. This is not to say anything can happen, there are rules and limits, just ones not easily explained with numbers on a line. Drusilla's question is valid though, in relative meaning. If I am in Los Angeles, what is the relative distance between me and someone in New York? That can be rated in numbers.

The distance, however, depends greatly on context. In a plane? Hours away. On foot? Weeks. Your mind goes to time and speed, as math would have you think. My mind, having seen the truth, goes to imagining a context, and how easy that is, to get there the fastest.

The most powerful creatures of fantasy could simply open a door to get there.

The weakest would have to walk because they could not imagine a faster way for it to happen - and make that happen. They could wish they could open that door, but they could never see the way to do it.

Knowledge, and those built-in paths of what is how and the why of things, are the key.

-Vex

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