Sara Walker: uncertainty

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…I just don’t know if a deep temporal structure necessarily means that you’re closed off. No, I don’t either. that’s my fear. I’m not sure I’m agreeing with what I say. I’m just saying this is one conclusion. And in my most, it’s interesting, I don’t do psychedelic drugs. But when people describe to me your thing with the faces and stuff, and I’ve had a lot of deep conversations with friends that have done psychedelic drugs for intellectual reasons and otherwise. But I’m always like, “Oh, it sounds like you’re just doing theoretical physics. That’s what brains do on theoretical physics.” I live in these really abstract spaces most of the time. But there’s also this issue of extinction. Extinction events are basically pinching off an entire causal structure. The one of these… I’m going to call them time crystals, I don’t know what, but there’s these very large objects in time. Pinching off that whole structure from the rest of it. And so it’s like, if you imagine that same thing in the universe, I once thought that sufficiently advanced technologies would look like black holes. That would be just completely imperceptible to us.…

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