{"product_id":"reality-doesnt-exist-it-happens-paperback","title":"Reality Doesn't Exist. It Happens. - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMike Land\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eKili Land\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eReality Doesn't Exist. It Happens.\u003c\/em\u003e is the front door to TNT, the Theory of Now and Then, developed by Mike and Kili Land at a ranch table over years of argument. TNT's seed is one plain observation: \u003cem\u003eanything that isn't a Now is a Then.\u003c\/em\u003e From that seed grows a whole picture - Awareness as the ground of all experience, the Ci as the locus that makes experience \u003cem\u003eyours\u003c\/em\u003e, the Then-field as the permanent record of what has actually happened, and free selection as the engine that turns possibility into the concrete trail of a life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten for curious readers rather than specialists, the book builds the framework step by step and then follows it wherever it leads: why reductionism cannot close the explanatory gap; why time arises from persistence and space depends on time; what quantum mechanics looks like when an observer is understood as a locus of actualization rather than a measuring device; why value and meaning are real features of reality's structure rather than matters of taste; and what our ignorance about machine consciousness demands of us right now.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThroughout, the book keeps one promise: to argue honestly. Where TNT answers a hard question, it shows the answer \u003cem\u003eand\u003c\/em\u003e what it costs. Where it plants a flag on contested ground - and it plants several - it says so, out loud. A formal companion, \u003cem\u003eThe Nine Inevitabilities\u003c\/em\u003e, carries the rigorous version of the argument. This is the version you can carry on a plane.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 146\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.34 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 12, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46397838852231,"sku":"9798994819623","price":16.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/Sls9UJw1nk9798994819623.webp?v=1793566251","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/reality-doesnt-exist-it-happens-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}