Annaka Harris

I have an article in Nautilus about time.

Because as I spend time thinking about what it would mean for consciousness to be fundamental, and at the same time, I'm talking to physicists about different interpretations of quantum mechanics and the fact that

The ones I'm talking to believe that space and time are emergent and are not part of the fundamental story.

I was thinking about what is it...

what could time be if it's not the way we experience it?

What could it be pointing to?

And, you know, I'm not the first person to think like this.

Many people have, you know, developed different thought experiments around this, but, and this is, I'm not saying this is the way things are, but this is just one solution is that time and causality are

appear to us the way they do because for whatever reason, we're only perceiving one moment at a time.

And these connections between events that we perceive as time are

are actually just part of the fabric of reality.

There's some structure to reality at a deeper level where it's like shining a flashlight on the structure of reality where for us, for whatever reason, everything else disappears and the only thing that exists is that single pin

pinprick of light that we happen to be inhabiting or that we can perceive, but that the rest of it is there.

And so that even though time would be an illusion and the causality in the way we experience it is an illusion, or it doesn't mean what we think it means, it's still pointing to a deeper structure.

There's something that it corresponds to in the fundamental nature of reality.

And I've had enough conversations with Don, I think, to know that he's

he would agree with that, that our perceptions map onto something.

It's just not the experience of it that we're having.

So to go back to the idea that all of reality could be

contained in two dimensions, and there's something about the interaction between different points that caused this holograph, so that it seems like there's a three-dimensional world when in fact it's a projection of this two-dimensional surface.