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<p>[02:15:32] And I find that there really aren't any candidate Theories of Everything or Unified Field Theories that I can find that plausibly give us an idea of how a canvas would will an entire universe into being. And, so that really to me is the conceptual problem that I think bedevils this, and makes the step quite a bit more difficult than some of the previous technical steps. | <p>[02:15:32] And I find that there really aren't any candidate Theories of Everything or Unified Field Theories that I can find that plausibly give us an idea of how a canvas would will an entire universe into being. And, so that really to me is the conceptual problem that I think bedevils this, and makes the step quite a bit more difficult than some of the previous technical steps. | ||
<p>[02:16:00] If you ask for antecedents, however, there is one that, at least within physics, is relatively famous, and that is by John Archibald Wheeler. And it is a picture, in some sense, of the universe contemplating itself. And so this idea that somehow the universe would contemplate itself into existence, maybe the letter U is in some sense analogous to the paper, and somehow the eye rather than the hand is drawn across to look at a different part of the of the U. And whether or not that has meaning is intrinsically always a question. People are animated by it, but I don't know that people have actually worked on it. The quote of Einstein's, I think that really speaks to me often the most and maybe even was my thesis problem was he asked whether the creator had any choice in how the universe was constructed. | <p>[02:16:00] If you ask for antecedents, however, there is one that, at least within physics, is relatively famous, and that is by [[John Archibald Wheeler]]. And it is a picture, in some sense, of the universe contemplating itself. And so this idea that somehow the universe would contemplate itself into existence, maybe the letter U is in some sense analogous to the paper, and somehow the eye rather than the hand is drawn across to look at a different part of the of the U. And whether or not that has meaning is intrinsically always a question. People are animated by it, but I don't know that people have actually worked on it. The quote of Einstein's, I think that really speaks to me often the most and maybe even was my thesis problem was he asked whether the creator had any choice in how the universe was constructed. | ||
<p>[02:17:03] And so I think if you believe that the canvas is itself that which generates all of the content and all of the action, you're, you're left with a puzzle as to how would you move forward from this? It might be easier in a mathematical sense to temporarily put the U on its back to put it more in line with a standard picture that many mathematicians and physicists will be familiar with. | <p>[02:17:03] And so I think if you believe that the canvas is itself that which generates all of the content and all of the action, you're, you're left with a puzzle as to how would you move forward from this? It might be easier in a mathematical sense to temporarily put the U on its back to put it more in line with a standard picture that many mathematicians and physicists will be familiar with. | ||