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redwoodtoday at 1:43 PM1 replyview on HN

While we're on this... it is arguably even more befuddling to recognize that the information content potential of space apparently correlates with the surface area rather than volume https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_principle


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random3today at 4:13 PM

Dimensions, and hence surfaces and volumes are part of our “tooling” used to understand the world (epistemic) rather than being intrinsic to nature. So the befuddling is related to our own interpretation.