Ethan thanks for the courage to approach the area least conventionally represented by a model and the courage to straightforwardly state there is not a deterministic model at this time. The theory remains on the table that we are in a simulation (with rules that do enable predictive models, formulaic and/or geometric). It seems reasonable to me that if we were in a simulation that quantum experimentation would be a likely place to find repeatable uncertainty, hence Thomas Campbell’s “My Big Toe”. Science that is not skeptical of any and all paradigms and open minded to any and all alternatives (including non-material and quasi-subjective theories like “consciousness “) enters the dogma zone. I believe we will re-accept the original queen of sciences, philosophy. Least anyone read this and passionately (fearfully) defend the parapets of existing post “enlightenment” / “natural sciences” and current quantitively most median theories (calm down, no one is discounting your masters or doctorate thesis), I spent years attending graduate classes in astronomy and atomic physics puzzling (even though I admit some of my favorite lectures came in the early 2000s from John Dobson who had some controversial views, monk-chemists will do that) over the models. I worked at both Shannon Labs and Holmdel Labs and have sat in a meeting with Arno Penzias (at the time discussing the implications of Unix OS). Thomas Campbell “TOE” might, notice I’m happy to leave it skeptically open, have some footing of rational logic.