But how can something so insane sound be true? Well maybe you just don't understand it, I don't understand it. Why is this stuff so hard to understand? When people ask me about these things I always give the same answer. On neural wiring, the thing that we inherited from our ancestors, and I don't mean our ancestors, our grandparents, I mean you know the worms in the muck through evolution, the neural wiring that we inherited was not built for quantum mechanics. It was not built for higher dimensions, it was not built for thinking about curved spacetime. It was built for classical physics, it was built for rocks and stones and all the ordinary objects, and it was built for three dimensional space. And that's not quite good enough for us to be able to visualize and internalize the ideas of quantum mechanics and general relativity and so forth. So instead what do we do? We use mathematics. Eventually in time we develop intuitions out of the abstract mathematics, we get better at it, and we begin to think that way. But that can be extremely frustrating when trying to explain to the outside world. The outside world, by and large, has not had that experience of going through the rewiring process, of converting their minds into something that can deal with five dimensions, ten dimensions, or the quantum mechanical uncertainty principle, or whatever it happens to be. And so the best it can do is to use analogies, metaphors. And the holographic principle is a metaphor. The way I've described it in terms of a hologram is not precise, it's not exactly accurate. It's close, it captures some of the ideas, but there's a whole raft of mathematics behind it that I can't easily transfer to you. Yeah, I should have paid more attention in math class. Yes.