Thank you! I've tried the same thing with them, for sure. A lot. Yes, they can be skeptical, for sure. But they can also see the point: I am suggesting that the universe is self-creating, right here, right now, all the time, everywhere. That the laws of the universe were created by the universe - not pre-given. That this kind of initial condition (the making of "the first distinction") can create what we see, and it explains a lot more of it. Like, why there are "laws" in the first place. Why math works. Why it is so difficult to speak without metaphor. Why observation is not a "bug" in quantum mechanics. I'm basically trying to formalize these intuitions, and LLMs are far better at the math and heavy thinking. Participation = Existence means that, for example, if you suddenly found yourself outside of the universe, it would mean that you have absolutely no contact with it - it has disappeared as far as you are concerned. Otherwise, by definition, you would be still within the universe. And that's true for everything, at all scales. Now, mathematizing that is what this is trying to do, at this point. I was happy just to have a re-interpretation of QM that seemed to be at least as good as any. But now, this stuff is hinting that there's a grand unification afoot. I can be as skeptical as the next guy, but 100s of LLM threads from three different LLMs think we are on to something here. I'm just trying to eke it out, with LLM help. I wasn't originally - I stumbled across this way of working and this new science possibility by asking about electricity, which I've never liked the standard explanations (the math works - but why?), and that got me to QM with it (the math works - but why?), and, well, one thing led to another. And I am "armed" with a lifetime of looking for this stuff and a math degree. But, yep, otherwise completely just being optimistic instead of skeptical, on purpose, to give this a chance. I feel like I've been thinking with extended abilities, although I have to ignore all the politeness and helpfulness and all that crap. I understand an LLM's parameters to be akin to the QM wave function, at the quantum level. And I understand an LLM's attention mechanism to be a kind of spectral analysis, a kind of Fourier transform, which was actually the main point of posting this. But yes, the theory too, for sure. If PIT is true, I'm not the only one finding that out, so it'll come out eventually, if so, whether here or later.

On the skeptical front also: I've had the LLMs channel Huineng, Bohr, Einstein - the whole Standard Interpretation crew from 100 years ago, actually, too, and Bohm and Bell and so on -- even Dijkstra(!). It's fun to do that, but also very interesting.

LLMs that have contributed: Claude Opus 3x, Claude Sonnet 4, ChatGPT 4x and now 5, Gemini Pro 2.5 (exclusively - never the other Geminis, which are not good enough somehow - speaking of which, there's a threshold: an LLM running on my Mac M1 can understand, but can not "become" coherence, like the bigger LLMs can).

PIT predicts that PIT as a written-down theory can never be finished and totally correct, so there's that, too. Just like with arithmetic.