This would be off topic in the Cliemate thread, so here:
First off -- the set! Trivial in Blender but nontrivial in real life.
Fascinating to listen to, he can make word salad make sense. I'm 1/4 of the way through at the moment but I need to be doing other things.
He and I share an 'orgin story'; in high school they wouldn't even tell me my Intelligence Quotent, to keep my humble, they said. So I went from a farmland high school into a leftist University. But I stuck it out and wound up (in two senses) a voice in the wilderness and he formulated his CTMU.
One thing that jumps out is Self-Simulation. And his connection of state and process reminds me of
Authur M. Young's The Geometry of Meaning.