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Comment author: Eitan_Zohar 15 July 2015 05:56:21PM *  -1 points [-]

"Dreaming is a very specific process that seems optimized to demonstrate the existence of a dream realm."

"Dreaming is a very specific process that seems optimized to recharge the Earth Spirit that is Mother Gaia."

"Dreaming is a very specific process by which Wyvren allows us to communicate with Legends."

Dust Theory is a coherent philosophical idea that has certain logical arguments to be made for it based off of our scientific knowledge of minds and quantum theory.

I have literally no idea how you could possibly draw that conclusion from the statement that dreaming has a mundane physics-based explanation. The two things aren't even remotely related.

No, they aren't. Of course dreaming has a mundane physics-based explanation; Dust Theory predicts that as well. We just find ourselves in a universe where dreaming exists.

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