{"product_id":"reality-doesnt-exist-it-happens-9798994819623","title":"Reality Doesn't Exist. It Happens.","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Actualization Project\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/12\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798994819623\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 146\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.33lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.34d","brand":"Mike Land,Kili Land","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53459218727093,"sku":"9798994819623","price":12.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/9798994819623.jpg?v=1791297843","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/reality-doesnt-exist-it-happens-9798994819623","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}