Stephen Wolfram's Concept of the Ruliad—a Description of the Self?

Wolfram posits an abstract totality metaphor that encompasses all the Possibilities of Possibilities at the onset of his thought schema. He calls this totality metaphor the "Ruliad" which he describes as the "result of following all possible computational rules in all possible ways." (View Highlight)

Rulial branches of different histories can entangle together in acausal, but meaningful combinations, and can sometimes be empirically accessed by "observers like us." (View Highlight)

Note: nice phrasing of it 'acausal but meaningful combinations' def similar to the theory of consciousness