I agree with you, but I'm suggesting that on the other end of the axis, away from empirical observation, is our ability to use information to affect destiny and

I agree with you, but I'm suggesting that on the other end of the axis, away from empirical observation, is our ability to use information to affect destiny and cosmology in a grand (or not so grand) scale. I doubt that reality exists independent of intelligence, which makes reality a difficult beast to understand, like a naturally intractable problem. And if you insist on observing empirically, you're just collapsing cosmological scale invariant alternatives, but you can never figure it out completely. In fact it probably just keeps getting more complex as you keep trying, even considering the occasional unifying theories. Anyways, I agree with everything that you've said, I just don't believe we can fully know how the phenomena actually works -- there are infinitely many ways in which it could work, all the time. To observe phenomena empirically in order to figure out how things further work, is to further isolate your existence into a remote section of the possible universes (and sometimes open your known universe up to new opportunities). I prefer to spend my time making reality rather than being chosen by it, which feels more like an active enterprise. In the end it doesn't matter. Have faith in science, or your ability to shape your world, or whatever that engages your computer noggin. :) -- copyright 2012 Jae Kwon