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 ## Observational Effects of TOET
 It would seem that an anthropic counterpart to the problem of physical laws and constants could be extended to include Levin's morphogenetic preference - but what if a naturalistic explanation existed that could manage the multiplicity of Everett's many worlds, but avoid slipping into the positing of infinities in order to neutralize away anomalies in both cases?
 
-After a multiweek hallucinogenic break from reality in the Amazon in 1970, Terence McKenna (in mysterious concert with Philip K Dick and Robert Anton Wilson) spent decades giving rational form to a vision of a Transcendental Object at the End of Time. "All of biology," he writes in a short piece called ["Approaching Time Wave Zero,"](https://www.fractal-timewave.com/articles/approaching_twz.htm) "is in a sense, a conquest of dimensionality. That means that animals are a strategy for conquering space/time." If the terminus of biology is a breaking out form the boundary of spacetime, then it is possible or likely that that future event is exerting uncanny influence upon our present: "The universe is not being pushed from behind. The universe is being pulled from the future toward a goal that is as inevitable as a marble reaching the bottom of a bowl when you release it up near the rim."
+After a multiweek hallucinogenic break from reality in the Amazon in 1970, Terence McKenna (in [mysterious concert](https://mitpress.mit.edu/9781907222870/high-weirdness/) with Philip K Dick and Robert Anton Wilson) spent decades giving rational form to a vision of a Transcendental Object at the End of Time. "All of biology," he writes in a short piece called ["Approaching Time Wave Zero,"](https://www.fractal-timewave.com/articles/approaching_twz.htm) "is in a sense, a conquest of dimensionality. That means that animals are a strategy for conquering space/time." If the terminus of biology is a breaking out form the boundary of spacetime, then it is possible or likely that that future event is exerting uncanny influence upon our present: "The universe is not being pushed from behind. The universe is being pulled from the future toward a goal that is as inevitable as a marble reaching the bottom of a bowl when you release it up near the rim."
 
 Consider a map of our pocket of many worlds, starting as one worldline branching out into many. Why branching? The plurality allows for degrees of freedom *within certain broad boundaries*, informed by **a telos which instigated the timeline in the first place**. As the worlds complexify, broad boundaries in the shape of cosmological constants and physical laws become more minute, taking the form of **knots** in morphospace, like breadcrumbs left by TOET to ensure arrival at terminus. Rather than the trace of forms exerting agency, the "surprising competencies" or tendencies of physical systems are their interaction with the natural boundaries of a hyperobject with predetermined shape.