Jesse Michels

And then the third leg, which I think you explore a lot, is consciousness.

And is this just like an interface?

And is reality actually much more malleable and kind of subjective and participatory, as John Wheeler would say, than we realize?

And I think if you can stay at the front of those three things, one's got to be right.

Right.

And you're sort of poking holes in the dam that is the existing paradigm.

You know, Thomas Kuhns wrote a book called The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, and he's often cited as like the preeminent guy when it comes to figuring out, you know, how scientific revolutions occur.

So like one example would be

electromagnetism in the 19th century.

Another example would be the quantum revolution or general relativity in the 20th century.

And in all of the cases, you see this law of declining marginal returns at the end of the paradigm, where you have all of these commentators being like, we're kind of at the end of history.

Like we've written all of the rules of reality, just like there are rules to the game of chess or something.

And we're trying to figure out that last piece.

And then the whole thing just kind of breaks.

And the way it often breaks is the anomalies.

So the anomalies sort of build up, the anomalies don't work within the model.

So they're empirical observations that don't make sense within the given framework.

And those sort of build up, they accumulate, and then the dam just sort of breaks.

And so I think if you kind of are systematically at the forefront of those three things,

I think there's something to all of them, but you don't have to think there's something to all of them.