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Love this, Mark! Very thought-provoking. I'm curious what the implications are for free will. Does this imply that "we", literally meaning you and me, were baked into the universe from day one? Or just that "we", meaning some broad type of sentient life, were always baked into it? If the former, then that doesn't bode well for free will. If the latter, then free will is redeemable!

It's a completely different concept, but the idea that what appears random is actually there for a reason reminds me a bit of Chesterton's Fence...

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I grok this model Mark, very cool insight. There are simple, massively important things hiding in plain sight.

A different slant and not sure how it attaches to this concept but maybe on the same theme of hiding in plain sight, I just heard that Brian Greene is thinking that the fabric of the universe is wormholes and that is what is behind the quantum theory of entanglement. The entangled particles are communicating through wormholes which is why the are simultaneously opposite at great distance. Someone or something will figure this out, maybe not in our lifetimes (but maybe with AI) but there's a lot to wrap your mind around.

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