The universe may not be random, but we’ll never know. Our sense need noise. That’s how they work—discerning between noise that is interesting and important and that which is not. The human mind can probably only handle a certain range of signal to noise, too low, and it can’t discern anything, too high, and you get overwhelmed (or distortion, like pumping the input too high on an amp.)

The human mind works by recognizing patterns. There must be a necessary contrast, and a gradient, too.

Part Heisenberg[’s uncertainty] and the observer’s paradox, partly because we perceive in too few dimensions (like how a light microscope can only see one plane in focus at a time—maybe it’s the same thing, partly because of encapsulation, we can’t see the system into which we’re embedded except for what the system allows us to see.

It’s like trying to sort between what is data and what is code…