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I've had the horrifying realization that there's a big hole in my novel's story. Here is the condensed version of the concepts - or, perhaps, the hypotheses - I want to explore with a plot:
- Matter, energy, spacetime - what we consider reality - is perception, subjective mental constructs.
- That perception isn’t by consciousness; self isn’t consciousness. It’s what’s beneath it.
- The laws of the universe come from these unconscious observers, and observers are governed by the laws that emerge.
I have Act 1 figured out, but the part where I want to talk about this stuff is a big blank space to me. I don't know how to build a story around it besides having my MC's somehow have epiphanies. Is that the only way to write a philosophical novel? I read Zen and the Art of Mtorcycle Maintence and, while I loved it, I feel like it was sort of an essay with bits of a narrative plopped in it.