it's actually originally a hypothesis from people like Terence Mckenna and Rupert Sheldrake and others about a contrary tendency to the entropy implied by the laws of thermodynamics (heat death and expanding universe) of order eventually unraveling

it's related to another psychedelic neologism "pronoia" which is the opposite of paranoia  - that everyone is secretly out to help you

the protocol is a synchronisation system for between relays that is based on range searches and whatnot, it's not a silver bullet but it reduces the total amount of bandwidth required to get two relays to have the same collection of events...

colby serpa and his project... i forget what it was called, something about merkle trees that can be snipped into bits, psionic merkle trees - is another project that aims to assist increasing consistency between relay databases