Donald Hoffman, back in our century, posits that spacetime is simply an interface—an abstraction manifested through human evolution that helps us interpret the reality of monads in ways our primitive brains can better understand. He compares spacetime to the desktop on your personal computer. Those little icons aren’t real, of course. That’s not the way computers actually work. There’s no tiny recycling bin inside the monitor. But if I took away that interface, and now you had to toggle millions of transistors on and off, every time you wanted an eggplant emoji, you’d never get any emails
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