Are the beings immortal? How do they reproduce, if each of them lives in a separate reality? Are they born in an empty universe? How do they learn anything?
How likely are they to accidentally kill themselves by summoning e.g. a huge ball of fire? Especially if they had no previous experience with fire. Or a lake of acid. What about radioactive materials, black holes, etc. It is possible to imagine an interesting thing that would kill you in reality. Though, do they have bodies? Are those bodies fragile? Do they have a metabolism? Can they be killed? Hurt?
Living in a world where anything can be created by thinking also means living in a world where the only things that exist are those that you can imagine.
If you conjure a thing, does it remain changeless, or can it change? Can things break? Will ice melt? Changes of things and interactions among things can be unpredictable.
If things remain perfect and changeless, you could conjure a Turing machine and let it run various computations.
Initially the beings are pure minds existing in a empty universe, so there’s no risk of dying or killing yourself, but plenty of driving yourself mad. If they want a body, they have to imagine it into existence like anything else. They reproduce by imagining other beings into existence. I’m not really sure where the first one came from or how it learned anything, but at this point they have a thriving society and a culture for training new minds how to exist in harmony with the others. One of the chief concerns of the beings is maintaining the norms of this culture with the worst possible punishment being ostracism for people who don’t play by the rules.
Objects imagined into existence follow the laws of physics you imagine along with them, so you could have ice that melts or a perpetual motion machine if you want that instead.
It’s also possible to create “planes” with more restrictive rules (sort of like spinning up a VM in a computer).
Are the beings immortal? How do they reproduce, if each of them lives in a separate reality? Are they born in an empty universe? How do they learn anything?
How likely are they to accidentally kill themselves by summoning e.g. a huge ball of fire? Especially if they had no previous experience with fire. Or a lake of acid. What about radioactive materials, black holes, etc. It is possible to imagine an interesting thing that would kill you in reality. Though, do they have bodies? Are those bodies fragile? Do they have a metabolism? Can they be killed? Hurt?
If you conjure a thing, does it remain changeless, or can it change? Can things break? Will ice melt? Changes of things and interactions among things can be unpredictable.
If things remain perfect and changeless, you could conjure a Turing machine and let it run various computations.
Initially the beings are pure minds existing in a empty universe, so there’s no risk of dying or killing yourself, but plenty of driving yourself mad. If they want a body, they have to imagine it into existence like anything else. They reproduce by imagining other beings into existence. I’m not really sure where the first one came from or how it learned anything, but at this point they have a thriving society and a culture for training new minds how to exist in harmony with the others. One of the chief concerns of the beings is maintaining the norms of this culture with the worst possible punishment being ostracism for people who don’t play by the rules.
Objects imagined into existence follow the laws of physics you imagine along with them, so you could have ice that melts or a perpetual motion machine if you want that instead.
It’s also possible to create “planes” with more restrictive rules (sort of like spinning up a VM in a computer).