- There is no magic, only science: Everything that is magic in other systems exists in this system but it is explained as a type of science in the Aetherpunk world
- There is no spooky action at a distance: All things are connected. Literally connected like quantum sized gears at the smallest level reaching out as a webwork of strings between things. Instant actions at a distance are not causal, they are from a shared source in cases of synchronicities but can be engineered.
Nothing is random, yet nothing is deterministic in the older sense of the world. Everything exists only as combinations and recombinations of wave-forms. Even matter is emergent from combining events. Therefore there is something like destiny, but also something akin to free will. The only determinism is chaotic determinism. Trillions of butterfly effects moving together in tandem and working with each other in a special combination that creates a particular instant.