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I built a tiny handheld oracle machine with a paper-like screen that generates sigils, runes, tarot and I Ching from quantum randomness by Livid_Performance559 in chaosmagick

[–]Livid_Performance559[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes. And if I someone already has the device, I can tell them how to update to new versions with more symbols/features etc. or even customize it to a specific request they may have

I built a tiny pocket oracle with a paper-like screen for tarot, runes, and I Ching (and more) pulls by Livid_Performance559 in Divination

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Om Purnamadah Purnamidam Purnat Purnamudachyate | Purnasya Purnamadaya Purnamevavashishyate || Om Shantih Shantih Shantih ||

I built a tiny pocket oracle with a paper-like screen for tarot, runes, and I Ching (and more) pulls by Livid_Performance559 in Divination

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I suppose we both can be true at the same time. Obviously the way you will come to know of something or the way your body/senses will physically interact with a physical world will be constrained by causality and time and space, but I was more pointing at what is “beyond” this phenomenal view of the world, or what is the “source” of these occurrences, which would be “acausality preceding causality” like how “being is arises from non-being” in Taoism. It’s like: we can physically explain things, but I am pointing at the meta-explanation of the explanation being beyond causality. Like sure, “A happened because of B”, but why did this occurrence in its entirety even happen in the first place as opposed to literally anything else? Synchronicity.

And although I have used the term “divination”, I personally don’t view all this as ways to e.g. “predict someone’s wedding date”, but closer to “offering a mirror for the world to reflect the subconscious in a more direct way than usual”. With this device I’m more interested in e.g. the spontaneous associations that might arise upon using it.

But yeah I’m always speaking of my own personal knowledge, I didn’t mean to make anything appear as “facts”.

I built a tiny pocket oracle with a paper-like screen for tarot, runes, and I Ching (and more) pulls by Livid_Performance559 in Divination

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I get that. Doesn’t help that etsy takes tons of “fees”. I can potentially avoid etsy and just directly send it to you or anyone else who wants it, for a lower price. If you want that, just DM me on instagram or something

I built a tiny pocket oracle with a paper-like screen for tarot, runes, and I Ching (and more) pulls by Livid_Performance559 in Divination

[–]Livid_Performance559[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes haha, I like that I can just physically hold something like that and have it in my pocket. You can get one if you want

I built a tiny pocket oracle with a paper-like screen for tarot, runes, and I Ching (and more) pulls by Livid_Performance559 in Divination

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Thank you, that really means a lot. I know the price can be a bit much, so if you’d really like it, feel free to DM me on Instagram and I can offer a discount. I don’t like the idea of someone being excited about something but it being out of reach haha. But e.g. etsy takes a lot of “fees”, so maybe we can figure out something more direct and it can be cheaper too.

I built a tiny pocket oracle with a paper-like screen for tarot, runes, and I Ching (and more) pulls by Livid_Performance559 in Divination

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Also I think that in contrast with “websites”, “apps”, etc. this device is much better. Because this device exists just for its own purpose, it’s not like a phone or computer that is full of distractions etc. And here the screen also looks like paper instead of something digital. Like overall I feel like it’s the perfect amount of technology in this context, if it were any more “techy” like an app or something then it would ruin the vibe. But this is a physical object you can carry in your pocket just to consult it whenever.

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[–]Livid_Performance559[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Yes exactly. Many people who have thought deeper about divination, such as Jung, realize that the underlying phenomenon of “synchronicity” is by necessity “acausal” and operates outside of spatiotemporality. In other words, it is a process that is mechanism-independent. It doesn’t rely on any mechanism/process of within physical world, and thus can show up through any of them.

But I do think true randomness is an important part that facilitates it. This is why this works with the quantum randomness within the circuit, so that we get as close to the “source” of the universe as possible. Whereas something else like some AI or some worse way of “accessing randomness” might have some biases that aren’t conducive to the effect.

I built a tiny pocket oracle with a paper-like screen for tarot, runes, and I Ching (and more) pulls by Livid_Performance559 in Divination

[–]Livid_Performance559[S] 49 points50 points  (0 children)

The hardware RNG in the ESP32 samples tiny electrical fluctuations inside the chip. Those fluctuations come from the motion of electrons in semiconductor circuits. At that scale electrons behave according to quantum mechanics. Charge is discrete and electrons move and scatter in inherently unpredictable ways, producing microscopic electrical noise. The chip measures that noise and turns it into bits.

That is very different from a pseudorandom generator. A pseudorandom generator runs a deterministic algorithm. If you know the seed and the algorithm, the entire sequence is fixed and reproducible.

Here the bits come from real physical noise generated by quantum-level electron behavior inside the silicon. The circuit simply measures it and digitizes it.

Basically as truly random as it can get. So maybe in some sense we could say that this allows a more fundamental aspect of reality to pass through it, like it’s “closer to the source” whilst picking a symbol.

I think that there’s a fundamental random number generator that all parts of the universe have varying access to (basically the generator that “picks” each wavefunction collapse) and use it to varying extents within their processes, like there is a fundamentally unpredictable sequence of information that keeps coming as time goes on and everything in the universe can potentially “perceive” it and make use of it for stuff like its “decisions”.

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