It seems to me that the fundamental thing that Wolfram is saying is that reality is non-local. Locality itself is an emergent phenomenon. This is his clever way of getting around Bell&#x27;s Theorem.<p>His networks don&#x27;t require space to exist, they are space. When we think of spacetime, we think of a manifold, and he&#x27;s saying that what looks like a manifold at a macro level is really just a discrete network at a micro level, and this sort of data structure is more suitable for explaining non-local phenomena, because locality is an effect, not a property, of the model. But for that to work, he has to derive all the current laws from his new model, and he is far from doing that, even though it is a quite <i>fantastic</i> thought experiment.<p>I think the confusion comes from the fact that at a fundamental level, we do not have the capability to know anything but models and abstractions derived from sense data, and no one is claiming their theories are more than models.