Codex of the Synapse: Folio A2.6
World-image Decay
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Image decay happens all around us. Often occurring by degrees, subtle and imperceptible, the process may happen sometimes at just the right moment for us to actually witness it. This sudden disorienting sensation of local-world image decay is one of the most rarefied forms of Synapse Experience. If world-image decay continued unilaterally, the sum of sensory impressions through which we experience reality would dissolve almost instantaneously into the white noise of Pattern Language. However, this does not occur, because World Image Decay works in equilibrium with a reciprocal process, Pattern Language Reclamation. The equilibrium is not perfect, however. The Keepers believe that the scales are slightly tipped in favor of Decay, and tiny portions of Pattern Language are lost in every transaction, just as any machine, no matter how efficient, loses some of its energy to friction. This miniscule loss will eventually become significant, and finally cataclysmic, bringing the Cycle to a halt and resulting in Synaptic Apocalypse, or The Uncreation.
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Local-world images, the sense impressions that
make up our entire local-world experience, are constantly decaying
into Pattern Language, sending impressions of our world out into
the Synapse.