Sublime

Berlekamp came to realize that much of human interaction is colored by shades of gray that he sometimes found difficult to discern.

In particle physics and quantum field theory we have internal symmetries that “rotate” different parts of a quantum field into one another.

Santa Cruz, and as the California Sun set over the Pacific, we enjoyed dinner with our old friend Anthony Aguirre and persuaded him to join forces with us. He’s not only one of the wisest and most idealistic people I know, but also someone who’s managed to put up with running another nonprofit organization, the Foundational Questions Institute (see

The fundamental nature of life may be not atomistic but relational.

this book is not primarily a defence of these theories: it is an investigation of what the fabric of reality would be like if they were true.

As the ancient philosopher Heraclitus remarked, ‘No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same river and he is not the same man.’

So knowledge is a fundamental physical quantity after all, and the phenomenon of life is only slightly less so.

Einstein’s general relativity emerges from the collective entanglement of a myriad of quantum particles moving about in a lower-dimensional boundary surface.