Stephen Wolfram

We're just noticing these particular things.

And the big interesting thing is that there are rules, there are laws that govern those big things that we observe.

So it's not obvious that that would be the case.

Amazing, because it doesn't feel like it's a slice.

Yeah, well, right.

It's not a slice.

It's like an abstraction.

Yes, but I mean, the fact that the gas laws work, that we can describe pressure, volume, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, and that we don't have to go down to the level of talking about individual molecules, that is a non-trivial fact.

And here's the thing that I sort of, the exciting thing as far as I'm concerned,

the fact that there are certain aspects of the universe.

We think space is made ultimately of these atoms of space and these hypergraphs and so on, but we nevertheless perceive the universe at a large scale to be like continuous space and so on.

In quantum mechanics,

We think that there are these many threads of time, these many threads of history, yet we kind of span.

In quantum mechanics, in our models of physics, time is not a single thread.

Time breaks into many threads.

They branch, they merge.

But we are part of that branching, merging universe.

Right.

And so our brains are also branching and merging.

And so when we perceive the universe, we are branching brains perceiving a branching universe.