I've had this puzzle solved in my own head for quite some time thusly: Distance is a fiction /aka: arbitrary manifold created by our (conscious?) selves interac

I've had this puzzle solved in my own head for quite some time thusly: Distance is a fiction /aka: arbitrary manifold created by our (conscious?) selves interacting with "the world," which is really just a big array of ordered values (N-tuples). To say that "X is N distance from Y" is no more of a valid proposition than "Blue is Louder than Yellow". We attach lots of significance to distance (e.g., 3D space) owing to its utility for "doing science." (Insert "All models are wrong; some are useful", but at a grand, multiversal scale.) My 2¢: YMMV. (me: Philosophy major with a good bit of sci/math as well)