By the phrase, “Grammar Based Universes(GBU)”, I’m actually referring to Grammar Based Story World Universes. I thank the Universe for allowing me to arrive at this insight. However, the universes I am describing are not the Universe we exist in, (that job is for bigger and better men than me) but rule based definitions of a potential reality. Every Story World had its own set of rules which govern every aspect of that story. The physics, nature and even the characters’ idiosyncratic behaviors obey religiously by the rules set forth by the author; sometimes in a document called the story bible. Every story that has ever been created has had its own set of rules which govern its reality.
As suggested by my friend Andre, why not call these “Rule Based Universes”? For one thing the sound of “rule based universes” invoke images of totalitarian societies that I would rather not venture. Secondly, I don’t really see them so much as rule based but “grammar based”. When the world is governed by grammars the meaning is more creative and collaborative rather then authoritarian. “creative” is the key because we are creating new reality out of the formless “stuff’ which permutates through the universe. Grammars are the tools by which we as human beings use to describe our reality. Even the rules that can be used to define our world’s physics still have to obey the same grammatical structure. The big trick now is to not only create the grammars upon which universes will be created but also to create the interpreters necessary to bring the grammatical instances to reality.
