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Thanks for having me, Allen.

The only roadblocks in my mind are thrown up when I can't describe something by the interactions of fundamental entities. I think the system that best reflects our world, while making the fewest presumptions is probably the closest to being right.

If the universal framework we seek could be captured as a single image, and we all painted a portrait of it, the one who's painting best reflected it, while using the least amount of colors, would be the one I would want to hang on the wall of my mind. In my opinion, the painter who realised, that all of the seemingly endless colors that make up our world was merely the effect created by mixing only a fundamental few, would have the best chance of matching all of the many shades of existence.

This is the logic that I use to probe the world around me, and I wanted to share it with you, hoping that it will help you in your ever important journey of trying to become a true artist of our world. At the least, I truly believe that you will find understanding within your own mind. The hardest part of your journey will be when others view the portrait you've spent so much time painting, paying so much attention to every curve, shade and detail, and they fail to see its true beauty, as if viewing it through colorblind eyes.

I guess what I'm trying to say is, don't paint your portrait to hang it on the wall of someone elses mind. Paint it to beautify your own wall. Paint because you love to paint, and paint because of the breathtaking view before you, even if your the only one standing on top of the intellectual mountain from which you look down at the universal landscape below. Perhaps, someday your renderings will allow those, who are lesser climbers, to get a glimpse of the view from the top.

Never stop painting.

If you believe in your own words, and the universe is truly trying to learn and explore itself, then you, my friend, can be proud of the life you've led, because you have done that which is your essence, as you've devoted your precious time to learn the nature of the very thing that brought you forth.

I can only hope that I have contributed to the pallet of colors, which resides within your mind, in some way. If I can be of any more help, don't hesitate to contact me.

Keep painting my friend,

Tim