The Analog Horror Series Where a Giant Cat Deletes Math (And Everyone Dies)

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Chapters:

0:00 Introduction
3:55 Infinity, Singularity, and the Rapture
21:57 Everything is Happening at the Same Time
30:25 The External Reality of Finiteness
37:19 Existence No Longer Exists
49:26 Analysis
59:33 Conclusion

[Unorthodox_Kitten]

I’m going to sound crazy, but I think I understand what’s happening in this one

[progect]

"be careful around the fabric of reality, garfield"

[gthegadgetguy]

what i came for: giant cat destroying math

what i got: benadryl induced nightmare

[saltytriscuit]

Three-Digit SCPs: “It’s a scary monster and if you look at it you die 😱”

Four-Digit SCPs:

[TranscorpHR]

"Mordecai! Rigby! Go do the dishes or you're fired!"

five minutes later: 4:08

[warsawsoldier]

We've gone past sacred geometry it's now eldritch geometry.

[Nekoszowa]

You don't need analog horror to make math scary tbh

[wargler]

Hello! I'm a massive nerd who enjoys looking into set theory a lot, and I've seen a lot of mathematical concepts referred to within this video, and would like to explain a bit about them.
(4:07)The video starts off by states that Taiga is "shielded from outer existence", which could be similar to setting up axiomatic principles. Axiomatic principles here mean the rules that all mathematical objects abide by. For example, a common axiom in geometry would be "you can always draw a line crossing two points in space". Following this, they mention a virus disguised as absolute truth. To me this seems like an axiom present in Taiga which seems to disprove commonly used axioms, thus breaking the mathematical universe down and eventually destroying it. For example, it would be like stating that 1=2 in your axioms, which would destroy modern day math. The speaker also says "the majority of elements in your set", which means that we, the viewers are actually elements in a set. A set has elements within it. For example a set of all natural numbers would have 1, 2, 3, 4... so on and so forth. We are not seeing this as a human, but instead as a mathematical object in a mathematical world. Our set is referred to as "The British Sea(or C?)", and it can be assumed that Taiga is the name of the set infected by this "virus". We are very clearly being sent out to investigate what axioms Taiga operates on, neverbefore done.
The External Terminology part may require an understanding of how functions work in set theory, but I'll try to make it very simple. A function is basically something which turns elements from one set, to elements in another set. For example, if I put set A, defined as 1, 2, 3, 4 into function f(x)=x+1, with x being elements in A, then the output (set B) will be 2, 3, 4, 5. Similarly, Con(B) = A can be thought of as a function like the one above. The speaker also states that this means there is a "fundamental equivalence in essence", which I believe means that the elements of set A and set B can both be "tied" to one another. To use our example from before, we can "tie" element 1 from set A to element 2 from set B, and so on for all elements. This means a LOT in set theory but the main one is that these two sets have equal size. Two sets of equal size means that sometimes, if you're able to prove one thing for one set, you can prove the same for the other. In sets A and B for this video, this means we can analyze set B instead of A, and since set B is likely simpler than set A, we can interpret set A in a way we understand.
Next up, Concept Degree! Concept Degree seems to refer to how many times we "simply" set A. So, by putting set A through our function (Con(B)) we simplify it. However, if we repeat this process, we can simply turn Con(B) into Con(Con(B)).
Interpretation Degree seems to refer to how many times we repeat our Con(B) function. By repeating this n times, we can get simpler and simpler representations of set A, which would normally be out of our grasp. Set A in this context of course means the entities we see through this series. (I am least confident in this one)
The Internal Terminology part requires some understanding of how physicists graph/visualize time and space. Starting off with Time, the speaker refers to multiple axis's of time. This can be thought of simply as different universes, or different timelines. The Causal Set seems to refer to how time axis's are defined within this universe, with these requiring to have at least one element present in another causal set of a different time axis, basicslly meaning these two sets share elements, and that they cannot be empty. Partial Past refers to an event which has occured in at least one time axis. anything that has happened before in the many timelines/multiverses is referred to as partial past. Absolute Past is an event that has happened before in ALL timelines/multiverses.
Next, Structure. Structure refers to anything which exists in partial past. For example, if you want to refer to a glass of wine which hasn't been created yet in another multiverse, you can simply call it a Structure.
Then we get onto the entities we examine. Model 00, which is a 1st Order Structure, can be seen as the "simplest" structure in Taiga. On the fourth intepretation, we are finally able to understand it, meaning we had to simply Model 00 four times using our Con(B) function. As we get onto the later models, we see this intepretation value increase, meaning these are getting progressively more complex. What the speaker says about the models seem less mathematical, and more biological.
After explaining Model 01, the speaker goes on to say us, the listeners will need to have an absolute measure of time. As seen above these are multiple time axis', meaning multiple speeds at which time moves. An interpretational algorithm is likely calculating how fast or slow time moves relative to the absolute time measure.

TL;DR: We the listeners aren't humans, and are more like mathematical objects in a mathematical universe. The Taiga is a nonsensical set of mathematical statements which breaks down modern math, thus killing us. The Taiga has multiple timelines within, and each of these timelines have different "speeds" of time relative to each other, We are being sent on an expedition to see what rules the Taiga runs on.

I might add some more analysis below, but it's getting late and my ramblings might get even more incoherent.

[Cyborg_Sloth]

"Hmmm I really like math and I really love analog horror. I wonder if I could make an analog horror about math?" -Unorthodox Kitten a year ago (probably)

[pixelraster]

"You stupid."
"No I not!"
"What's nine plus ten?"
"Twenny o-"
*universe collapses in on itself*

[josephjarosch]

This work reminds me of an author named Greg Egan. All of his works relate to EXTREMELY wierd and abstract mathematical and physics concepts, to the degree that I can't even really describe them. Permutation City, his most famous and least insane piece, relates to multiple layers of simulation-within-simulaion, matrix style, and involves a computer based on pure mathematics that requires no physical hardware to run.

Regarding the nature of the world inside the Taiga:

01-J isn't just able to travel back and forth in in time, it is able to instantiate new temporal axii and travel along *all* of them, similar to it's counterpart. Our physical universe has three spatial dimensions and one time dimension- so 3 axii and one axis, respetively, to use the series terminology.

O1-I is able to create extra axii and make space 4 dimensional, 5 dimensional, ect. Either within a bubble, or across the entire universe.

As a physics and mathematics enthusiast, just my 2c, but: I think that the Tagia is a kind of mini-multiverse, where whole pocket-universe-bubbles with different laws of physics function like atoms. The native entities "biology" (if you can even call it that) works by reprograming the physical laws of these individual pocket-universes to make them interract in certain ways. 01-J is fixed in space but moves through time, so it will simply reprogram reality so that time is 3 dimensional (or 4 dimensional, or 10, 000 dimensional...) so that it has more wiggle room. It is also insinuated that these entities are at the bottom of the food chain, the "grass" or "krill" that everything else feeds upon.

Just my interpretation but-

The story is set in the extreme far future. "Data Clusters" Are gigantic supercomputers powered by captures stars, possibly light-years in diameter. Each contains many simulated universes where most people (or perhaps "people" considering) live. Tagia cluster is a cluster that was running very exotic simulated universes with unusual physics. One of those contained created a virus that hijacked the cluster and made it start running increasingly exotic and incomprehensible universes. This eventually led to the Tagia cluster creating not just simulated universes, but a second, physically real universe in parelel to this one, linked to ours by the Tagia.

"You" is an entity, originating in the Taiga cluster who left before everything fell apart, ending up in a second cluster called "The british sea". It's superiors send it into the Taiga to report back on what it finds. The entities beyond Taiga notice the newcomer, and this sets into motion a chain of events that leads to them breaching into and remaking the real universe. But the scout somehow survives the cataclysm, and wanders the ruined universe without purpose.

[Average_NerdIII]

27:58 isn't the Milky Way galaxy. I haven't seen anyone else point this out but it's a galaxy known as the "Sombrero Galaxy", a rather beautiful galaxy if you ask me. Just thought I'd point it out :)

[MaxMax-xy]

This is basically like: "I found a wire" cuts it and deletes something important "bro dies

[BrokenHedgehog]

And THIS is why we don't roll joints with pages out of the Necronomicon.

[catgirl]

This and the Monument Mythos are probably my favorite analog horrors since they are less direct horror and more of a surrealist’s interpretation of horror!

[PurelyHyperbolic]

"the battle of the gODS lasted a fraction of an instant.
They did not even realize They no longer existed.
Their cREATION was Their doom, the cREATOR's doom.
as just a mere painting of the Infinite from the bLIND nonexistent view of iTS.
Nothing is out of oUR reach.
The Physical Impossibility of Non-existence in the Existence of something Existing.
Before the jump, the celebration orbs were sent, now working as cREATOR'S last echoes."



Probably the most kick ass thing ever written.

[rotomfan]

Bill Cipher has been hitting that dark alien pixel art pack

[JustoneMILK]

"Yeah my cat loves people" *The cat*

[davi_horn]

I always get me thinking about "what if the universe and it's laws are just consistent coincidences?"

[rsparks]

Small note- The Laniakea Supercluster, mentioned alongside Milkdromeda, is a real thing. It's the galactic supergroup that contains the Milky Way, and like a hundred thousand other galaxies. It's sort of the last stop on scale before you hit galactic filaments, the largest structures in the universe, and the observable universe itself. We're definitely supposed to think that human scales were involved at some point along the chain of expansion here.