Church of the Intelligent Multiverse
an alternative religion offering a synchronicity explanation related to the meaning of life and I forgot the other two keywords
by Daniel Suarez
This is about an artificial intelligence that goes rogue. What's particularly interesting about it for Theoconsequentialists is the situation at the beginning of the second book, Freedom where all these people are working for the AI doing essentially gig work. That's what working for God is like. And we're all working for God. So it's what the world is like. Everybody is an agent, but in a cool way.
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by Roger Zelazny
This is about a multiverse which is all the worlds that are variations of the one true world, Amber. All those other worlds are "shadows" of Amber, including our own. The family who rule Amber all have the ability to "walk in shadow," meaning they can walk into other worlds. Subjectively, it's like they are changing the world as they go, but really they're just finding a different one among the endless possibilities. That's kind of like what we have in reality, except we can't get rid of features. We can add features where there were previously unknowns, but once we see things they have to be accounted for in any future modifications. Except of course we can't do this at will, we kind of get things we need for our mission. So, not really like that but it's a fun read.
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by the Mohists of ancient China
They believed that the meaning of life is to serve Heaven (the sky transcending being ruling the worlds through spirit agents), which is mainly concerned with economic growth and increasing order. The way to do this is to establish a socially mobile meritocratic hierarchy and be ruthlessly practical and hard working. We are to care for everyone equally without partiality, which requires consequentialism. We know things based on tradition, experimentation, and public perception (which reveals the will of God).
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You have to study it to get what the authors are actually getting at. It was all said in ways designed to keep them from being executed by warlords.
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David Deutsch
Non fiction. Particularly clear about the fact that the multiverse is real. It's actually being detected and logical positivists purposely discount the evidence.
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Alan Vaughan
Out of print. It's what got me started in the early eighties. Lots of examples of synchronicity. Really sketchy suggestion of what might be behind it.
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