Consider the Anthropic principle: observations of the physical Universe must be compatible with the conscious life that observes it [1]. We don't think things

Consider the Anthropic principle: observations of the physical Universe must be compatible with the conscious life that observes it [1]. We don't think things are garbled because we have evolved to make 'sense' of the chaos. Perhaps everything is a garbled mess that we think we can understand. “I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.” ― Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle edit: I think I went off on a tangent. The answer to your original question is that our observable universe is the thing that is being played - it is the stuff on the boundary that might be garbled. We are the projection.