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Which refers to the unwritten rule of drawing lots and cannibalism for shipwrecked sailors. An interesting read, note as well the interesting parallel between the Richard Parker of Edgar Allen Poe's & the Mignonette, and the double entendre of "Owen Coffin" - "Owing a Coffin", but life is frequently stranger than fiction...
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A rather amusing 18th Century Hoax that had some rather unfortunate consequences for all parties involved.
Link: Wikipedia on Beringer's Lying Stones
Link: The Geological Society
And you can read (well, I was just there for the illustrations) the original manuscript here: https://books.google.ca/books?id=3PhcAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false
Droll indeed, although I can see how wanting so badly to believe led to errors (and mischief) all round...
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Via Scientific American: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/consciousness-might-hide-in-our-brains-electric-fields/
Now, I've read a few of these theories, so just add this to the heap. While I certainly subscribe to the view that the entirety of our experience isn't contained within our body or heads, I haven't time to chase after every theory of everything that our consciousness hides in other dimensions, in quantum states, in the earth's magnetosphere, etc, etc. But it is something to think about.
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John Wheeler, American Theoretical Physicist, striving to create a unified theory of everything that was objectively the same to all observers. Which, as the article lays out, was no easy task.
Link: Quanta Magazine - John Wheeler, the Tear in Reality
Link: Bio on Wikipedia
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To summarize, the internet as a communication tool for and by the people has been so largely displaced by algorithms and bots that it for all intents and purposes is dead. It's sole purposes is to create consumers out of users.
It is less a theory than a grim reality.