I've said for many many years that the world is made of language that was just sort of one of my bumper stickers
but I think that that carries some of the flavour of what I want to say there
that there's more to it than that it's that... uh... everything is code
Everything is code in the sense that hackers
mean when they say they write code.
Machines communicate like this, in fact...
uh... this is a bridge which connects us,
this is the great overarching bridge which
will connect us to the machines.
That they, like us, are, uh, commanded by
language.
This realization that everything is code,
and code moving on many levels is I think a further...
it's more primary than the perception
for example, that things are made of spacetime,
matter and energy.
That's one level below code.
The code codes through spacetime, matter and energy.
It's much more like we're in a simulacrum,
some kind of machine environment.
And in fact I like that idea, because I've
always sensed that the universe is a puzzle.
Life is a problem to be solved, it's a conundrum,
it's not what it appears to be.
There is... a... there are doors, there are
locks and keys, there are levels.
Uh... and if you get it right, somehow it
will give way to something extremely unexpected.
If the world is code... then it can be hacked.
In other words, it won't, it needn't stand
still in quite the same way
that it stands still in your mind, if you believe in something called the laws of physics.
It permits magic.
