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Yes — that non-locality on the surface is because the braiding structure is non-local when projected.

You are correct and I misspoke:

You don’t lose the information, it becomes non-local on the surface — and so if you’re building a model of the interior from a local sampling of the surface, you get a statistical model built on pseudoknots (again, like a shadow from a lamp).

I think it proves my point that AdS/CFT is hard to talk about :) I’ve still got mixed feelings about the lamp/shadow analogy but thanks for the clarification.

Sure — just one last thought:

The thread-lamp model isn’t arbitrary; ultimately, we’re looking for some kind of tangle model that rescues geons. So we’re going to need something that looks like continuous tangles on the inside and Feynman diagrams on the outside.

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