Welcome to Gaia! ::

"Weird" is too loaded and frankly biased of a term. Like I said, Brianiac 5 is married to absolute order because chaos is difficult to predict, quantify, and control. It's a natural scientific bias.

Frankly we don't know much about the nature of the nexus and how it might affect sentient beings, so speculating too hard is pointless. There's a fringe science hypothesis about something called a morphogenetic field. The mainstream biological definition is a force that guides an organism as it grows. For example, in the human body, cells listen to discreet biochemical signals that tell them to form certain organs.

The fringe hypothesis is that there is a wide pseudo-psychic field of human knowledge that can, in theory, be tapped into. The common urban legend associated with this is that if you have a test that a large class is doing the next day, you should wait to study until later in the day after most of your classmates have completed their studying because their combined efforts create a net effect on the morphic field that makes it easier on you.

So as far as an explanation for people here knowing and doing things they shouldn't be able to, it's as good as any. Borges once wrote "I feel that every man should be capable of every idea, and in the future this will be true," or something to that effect. It's romantic, but I like it.

Who do you know so thoroughly well that you're able to deduce "full-fledged chaos"? You're Spiral. Please tell me about Brianiac 5, or Patience. You can't? Because you're not from their world and have not interacted with them outside of the Nexus- and thus lack a foundation on which to make a solid judgment? Shocking.

I get what you're saying. In theory some people are "affected" and act "weirder" then others- and no you don't have to know every single person to put such a theory forth. I was just making a point which would be;

But what practical purpose does it serve you to worry about it?

I agree with Tony that trying to wrap our brains around this is "pointless". And people will just get hurt.

::Shrinks and sits on Tony's shoulder::

*Looks over and smiles.*

Well Natalia, there's no real point in trying to argue the point with Spiral. Anyone trying to ascribe objective judgments to the nature of cosmic forces is trying to bottle the wind. What is of course important to remember is that anyone arguing that the metaverse ought to conform to this or that principle or iteration has vested interests in doing so rather than marveling at the beauty and complexity that occurs when chaos emerges in what was- until then- regarded as a paragon of complete order.

::flies down and makes him outstretch his hand so she can sit on it::

No. I'm pretty positive I'm reading this exactly for what it really is.

But I'm done.

*Gets up and paces around the room.*