Sublime

Unfortunately, however, this sane recognition of the relative nature of systems of value and the contingency of judgments is often taken one step further—to complete relativization of all values, namely to the conclusion that all opinions about truth and falsehood are equally valid, or that all ethical and moral judgments must be considered

“Mandelbrot found a sameness from the smallest to the largest. And this sameness of scale also occurs for events.”

The first fully universal theory – which I shall call the Theory of Everything – will, like all our theories before and after it, be neither perfectly true nor infinitely deep, and so will eventually be superseded. But it will not be superseded through unifications with theories about other subjects, for it will already be a theory of all subjects.

He is using a conceptual reasoning that has a precise historical origin, Anaximander’s apeiron.

If the strangeness of quantum theory confuses us, it also opens new perspectives with which to understand reality. A reality that is more subtle than the simplistic materialism of particles in space. A reality made up of relations rather than objects.