I agree with all your statements there, Bert. I 'get' it. (I'm not sure Quantum Mechanics describes predictability, though .. perhaps 'probabilities' which isn't exactly predicatability ..)
So we live in the midst of unbounded complexity .. so that is what we see around us.
We're trying to work it out from the midst of that perspective.
And yet at the largest and smallest scales, things may ultimately be described quite simply. Who knows ?
Andrei Linde's ideas are to do with bubble universes. Guth has wrangled with him about flatness so he now seems to speak of 'expanding infinite sheets' rather than 'finite spherical surfaces' the difference is purely because our brains aren't fully capable of dealing with the dimensions separating the two analogies.
I'd prefer to keep with the directions outlined in this thread:
Finite/Infinite (Cantor, Godel) => BBT/Inflation => Chaos/Fractal/Complexity => String/M-Theory.
It seems that skipping the steps of thinking through all of these concepts can lead to a premature perspective on it all. Does this ever stop ? I don't think so.
I'm intrigued with the concept of our brains being entangled with something else out there … sounds like fun to ponder that one !! (Especially considering the difference between the sexes !!)
Cheers