There was a really great short story by Ted Chiang about this concept (finite communication between forks): https://onezero.medium.com/anxiety-is-the-dizziness-

There was a really great short story by Ted Chiang about this concept (finite communication between forks): https://onezero.medium.com/anxiety-is-the-dizziness-of-freedom-b5ab45cae2a5 https://onezero.medium.com/anxiety-is-the-dizziness-of-freed... . I found it from an HN post a couple months ago.