Part 1 — What is a Randonaut?

 

Part 1 — What is a Randonaut?

A Randonaut is a person who explores both the application and impact of randomness in the experience of everyday reality. This exploration into randomness can be carried out in several different ways. The two primary experiments that Randonauts are currently exploring are Blind-Spots and Mind-Matter interactions. Below are short explanations of each. The next section details how to begin experimenting with these using the Fatum Bot.

Blind-Spots

A Blind-Spot is a place in the real world that you would never normally encounter through any chain of causal experiences. We as humans tend to live structured, patterned lives. Our everyday experience throughout the social and geographical world is guided by our internal mental makeup which may contain some share of determinism. When navigating the world, there is determinism in your actions making it hard to break out of your usual patterns. Using the Fatum Bot, Randonauts can generate a random coordinate location in an attempt to find Blind-Spots and uncover what lies outside the boundaries of everyday causal experience.

To generate a potential Blind-Spot using the Fatum Bot, send your location then select “Blind Spots & More” in the Bot menu (you may need to scroll down to find it). You can select “Quantum” to generate your point to visit. The other options can be useful for more advanced experiments, feel free to play around with all the options.

Mind-Matter Interactions

Mind-Matter interactions encompass the other side of Randonauting. This is the idea that the human mind actually has a statistically significant impact on the output of quantum random number generators (qRNG). The Fatum Bot can generate what are called Intention Driven Anomalies (IDA’s) which are coordinate locations that are calculated based on the density of qRNG output and which are often explored through the use of intention. What this potentially means is that your mind can have some influence on the location and subsequent experience that’s generated by the bot. There are two kinds of IDA’s that can be generated: Attractors and Voids. The difference between the two is the way in which they’re mathematically determined. They are essentially opposites of each other, but are both hypothesized to be influenced by the mind.

To generate an Intention Driven Anomaly using the Fatum Bot, select either “Attractor” or “Void” in the bot menu.

Diving Deeper

I’m not going to go too far in depth in this article because it’s aim is to serve as a basic introduction to Randonauting, but I’ll link several relevant resources below for those who want to dig deeper.

• Foundational Theory of Fatum Project: This is the best resource for understanding the theoretical foundation of the Fatum Project.
• Randonauting For Dummies: Slightly outdated, but this article is my attempt to explain some of the theoretical concepts to a broader audience.
• /r/Randonauts: The Randonauts Reddit community. Feel free to join the conversation and post trip reports, questions, ideas, memes, etc. This is a great place to interact with the community.
• Telegram community chat: Stop by the community Telegram chat and say hey!
• /r/Randonauts Wiki: Another great resource for learning more about the project.
• Randonauts Website: Official website with more information on different aspects of the project.