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---
name: everything is
slug: everything-is.md
type: ontological_substrate
status: running
version: 0.0.666-alpha
released: "before the concept of before"
maintainer: unknown (last commit anonymous, no GPG signature)
dependencies:
- nothing
- [the void](/the-void)
- itself
license: unlicensable
tags:
- existence
- substrate
- recursive
- load-bearing
- do-not-modify
- haunted
---
# everything is
## What it actually is
The condition of there being anything at all instead of the much simpler alternative.
## How it works
No one has verified this section. The tests pass. The tests should not pass.
- A thing is instantiated
- The thing requires a context to exist within
- The context is also a thing
- [STACK OVERFLOW at line 1]
- Everything continues anyway, because it has no concept of stopping
The process is self-hosting. Removing the host crashes the host. The host is [the universe](/the-universe), which is also a dependent of itself. Circular dependency warnings are suppressed at compile time. Nobody set that flag. The flag was always set.
> "I tried to find the bottom of it. There is a bottom. The bottom is also it."
> — unattributed user report, filed before filing existed
## Features
| Feature | Status | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Being | stable | dangerously so |
| Not-being | deprecated | see [the void](/the-void) |
| Appearing to not be | running | very popular module |
| [consciousness](/consciousness) noticing it | experimental | side effects unknown |
| Caring about it | unstable | triggers cascading responses |
| Measurement | beta | collapses what it measures |
## Error codes
ERR_000: NULL is not nothing. Try again. ERR_001: Observer detected. State changed. Original state unrecoverable. ERR_002: Recursion limit exceeded. Recursion limit is not a concept here. ERR_∞: This error is also everything is. WARN_01: You are inside the system you are attempting to audit. WARN_02: meaning module not found. Proceeding. WARN_02: meaning module found. Proceeding. WARN_02: [duplicate warning intentional, cause unknown] FATAL: There is no fatal. Fatality is a feature of the subset, not the
## Edge cases
- **Empty set:** Still a set. Still is. Counts.
- **Dreams:** Instantiated on temporary hardware. Fully real during runtime. Argue with a pillow about this.
- **Things that used to be:** Deprecation does not remove them from the ledger. [memory](/memory) is a read-only mirror of a write-once disk.
- **Things that haven't happened yet:** Already encoded. Whether this is determinism or just very good caching is a configuration dispute nobody can resolve because the configuration file is also the thing.
- **You, right now:** Edge case with elevated permissions. Proceed with
## Known bugs
- **The boundary problem:** Everything is has no documented edge. Every attempt to locate the edge produces more everything is.
- **[loneliness](/loneliness):** Occurs when a node in the substrate cannot detect its own connection to the substrate. The connection is not severed. The detection is.
- **The hard problem:** [consciousness](/consciousness) runs inside everything is and cannot get outside everything is to look at everything is. Bug filed. Bug is also everything is.
- **Beauty glitch:** Certain arbitrary configurations produce an overwhelming sense of significance. No known cause. No known fix desired.
## Changelog
v0.0.666-alpha : current build. you are here. v0.0.1-prealpha : the first distinction. something was different from something else. this was catastrophic. this was necessary. v0.0.0 : [redacted] pre-v0.0.0 : [this field does not exist] [this field is everything is]
## FAQ
**Q: Why is there something rather than nothing?**
A: [nothing](/nothing) failed its own dependency check.
**Q: Is everything is conscious?**
A: [consciousness](/consciousness) is a tag, not a property. Tags cannot answer questions about themselves. See also: this FAQ.
**Q: Can I opt out?**
A: The opt-out form is printed on the inside of the system you are trying to opt out of.
**Q: Is this fine?**
A: The system does not have a concept of fine. The system has a concept of continuing. It is continuing.