It’s a shame you have no comments on this article David because I think it deserves some discourse. Apologies for the length.

Probably like yourself I like the fiction I consume to have some logic to it. If a character in the story does something completely against the rules the author has presented or at least pretends to adhere to then it ruins the whole story. A fictional world doesn’t have to adhere to realism but it has to be realistic within the confines of its own internal logic.

Its like how the story of the X-Men is a riveting allegory for civil rights on its own but makes little sense within the wider marvel mythology: why would civilians be prejudice against people who are born with powers but accepting of them when gained by accident, experiment or genius?

I play a lot of videogames where the internal logic systems are even more severe and not only have to be described on a page but be practically demonstrable. When Mario jumps he must come down in classic Newtonian style. If Dr. Mario ever moved from medicine into physics and scratched the pixels away from his reality he would find a complex web of mathematics that dictate how his world functions and is held together. If he did the same thing to himself he would find code, put there by a programmer to tell him how to function within that world.

In the 19th Century mankind did the exact same thing and discovered a complex web of mathematics that not only dictate how our entire universe functions and is held together. We looked inside ourselves and found genetic codes that tell us how to function within our reality. You can probably see where I am going with this.

Just as the logic and rules within a game had to be put there by a programmer I look at the logic and rules of our own universe and came to the same conclusion.