There are many causes and many effects. Polysingularity is a practice of observing effects and finding multiple causes for them. This way we're not weaving a linear narrative, but a network of related events. The difference is that no one is claiming the truth anymore, although such claim is also possible (and even necessary). Rather, we use this opportunity to unfold the irrational because we don't want to follow the track, we want to create it anew every time. A more amorphous version of reality is generated, which is like this, but which could also be like that or <strong>like that </strong>or <em>like that</em>. But in the end it's like this at this very moment and that is also fine.

1. CAUSE & EFFECT
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2. SOMETHING HAPPENS FIRST, AND
SOMETHING ELSE FOLLOWS.

3. THOUGHTS STICK TOGETHER,
OTHERWISE THEY’RE LONELY...
* the thoughts are the nodes and the edges are the relations between them.

4. • You are the way you are because of your past;
• Reality flickers, time glues it together;
• First there’s a feeling, then there’s a reaction;

5. * the idea of yourself is a result of tracing the flashes of experience in time

6. THE INTENTION IS TO
KEEP IT ALL TOGETHER,
OTHERWISE IT WILL FALL APART.

10. * Lysergic Acid Diethylamide

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12. * the connection is made, the things seem to be related even if they were not

13. Flash(1) -> Flash(2) -> Flash(3) = Reality
Where Flash(i) is a moment i when something is perceived and
Reality is a combination of those signals that are put together
into a unified continuity*.
* pure illusion, but it seems so real!

14. * pure illusion, but it seems so real!

15. “THE WIND STIRRED THE LEAVES OF THE TREE”,
WE SAY.

16. * pure illusion, but it seems so real!

17. * pure illusion, but it seems so real!

18. * pure illusion, but it seems so real!

19. • Narratives are powerful, especially if they follow our logic;
• Cause and effect unfolds a story in time;
• Cause and effect creates singularity out of multiplicity;

20. * cause and effect creates singularity out of multiplicity

21. YOU ARE BREATHING BECAUSE
YOU ARE ALIVE.

25. Cause and effect is a gross
simplification and that is also why
it’s so effective.
Cause and effect is the basic module
of thinking, because it connects two
different thoughts together.
Not only it connects them together,
but it also prioritizes them in time:
the cause happened first, the effect
followed. Somehow it makes
everything even more real.
I think therefore I am.
I drink because I am thirsty.
I eat because I am hungry.
I work to make a living.

26. “I’m sitting here because I have
nowhere else to be right now.”

30. • There are many causes and many effects.
• Polysingularity is a practice of observing effects and finding multiple causes for them.
• Linear narrative, a network of related events.
• No one is claiming the truth anymore.
• Although such claim is both necessary and possible.
• Unfold the irrational.
• Creating new pathways.
• Diverting the already existing ones.
• It is like this, but it could also be like that or like that or like that.
• But in the end it’s like this at this very moment.
• And that is also good.

31. Figure 1

32. ...if we represent the multiplicity of causes and effects as nodes, and the transition from
cause to effect as a connection between them, we will get a network of various states.
one state flows from the other, they mix in, intermingle, co-influence, and obscure. every
trajectory can be taken, deduction doesn’t work only backwards, we can also go sideways
and choose the least efficient path...

33. STILL...
IT’S IMPORTANT TO INSIST,
OTHERWISE IT WILL FALL APART.

37. THANK YOU!
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