I enjoyed the last half hour especially. Universal citizens he says. And it appears we cant even be that way on a global scale yet

did you notice that when mitchell was asked "what is the essence of energy" it was awkward and difficult for him to tell his explanation as in, it is not the news any wish to hear

i imagine

"....if we take the universe that we live in and know, knowing is pretty fundamental too and knowing is based on information and information is just basically patterns of energy.
So we here have two faces of energy, one is matter, our existence is dependent upon matter.
Our knowing is dependent upon information and we live in a universe that exists and knows"

we live in a universe that exists and knows

that is what we have to come to terms with

our universe (environment) is not structured to imagine not knowing

it functions (effects) as if all within it is knowing

only we do not know what our environment and ourselves are and what we both are doing

sometimes that may be awkward for us