Personally I believe in the Simpsons theory of a recursive universe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNV9FEKi9FQ. The strange thing is, this is totally based on a gut feeling (which I had long before the episode), but funnily enough, when you talk about this with other people, lots of folk seem to share this feeling... from your brother in law to, well, the Simpsons. Maybe we do have some sort of common knowledge sitting somewhere that is guiding us to find out these things... As another gut conclusion, in my opinion, if there is such a thing as a unified theory as proposed by Hawkins, this recursive thing is probably the only way to make it stick at all ends. Moreover, we probably are inside something a lot smaller than we think: ourselves! Wooooooooow!
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Personally I believe in the Simpsons theory of a recursive universe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNV9FEKi9FQ. The strange thing is, this is totally based on a gut feeling (which I had long before the episode), but funnily enough, when you talk about this with other people, lots of folk seem to share this feeling... from your brother in law to, well, the Simpsons. Maybe we do have some sort of common knowledge sitting somewhere that is guiding us to find out these things... As another gut conclusion, in my opinion, if there is such a thing as a unified theory as proposed by Hawkins, this recursive thing is probably the only way to make it stick at all ends. Moreover, we probably are inside something a lot smaller than we think: ourselves! Wooooooooow!