I spend a lot of my time thinking about how to construct the universe in as general a way as possible. Every now and then I feel like I 'level up' and the picture becomes clearer. Then usually about the same time I learn something new from mathematics that shows me I am following a path already travelled. Or in this case following a path closely related to a path well travelled. I think the truths about our own minds are intimately connected with truths about the universe. I suspect the mystery of consciousness is very similar to the mystery of the universe. Understand one and you understand the other. For me the ultimate mystery is explaining why there is pattern rather than no pattern. Why is there self similarity, why is the universe compressible? Why is it that within everything there is a place where this exists and why does 'this' have the structure it does. Can we invoke the anthropic principle,or is there something like population dynamics within totality. I am currently following an interesting line, starting from the thought experiment - If you recorded every moment of the universe on a physical representation, a hard drive for instance with perfect fidelity. Would there be any difference between the representation and the universe itself? I don't think there would. This is leading me to try to recast what I know of mathematics without the notion of process, to visualise it all it terms of structure only. And to to truly grok that our notion of computing is a method for finding a piece of the internal structure of a larger structure. Within a structure constructed from self similar elements. Just ramblings, sure it's non sense, or perhaps trivially obvious, but am trying to connect with someone :)