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Date: November 10, 2018 11:56AM
Since Henry Bemis brought up the Block Universe interpretation of GR, with its attendant illusion of free will, I thought I’d mention the other side, the Many Worlds interpretation of QM. Sean Carroll explains in
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iXRLDatmbgAI kind of like the Copenhagen interpretation of QM, which has conscious observation collapsing the wave function. If anything can do that, then everything is conscious. So, pantheism.
In Many Worlds, the world today is the result of infinite branching. The probably of life is very small, but we are here because of incredible luck. But then the fact that it doesn’t fall off the rails doesn’t support that. It seems that anything can’t happen.
Maybe all of the many worlds form one block. There’s still the luck thing. Yeah, but God. Or something else. Consciousness traveling backward in time. Good futures pull on us and bad futures repell us by way of information flow. Your higher self doesn’t cooperate when you’re trying to do something stupid, unless you’re way out of tune so it’s much easier to do the stupid thing. So Mormons know of that hack, but think it only works for them. No, it’s just nature.
We can’t travel backwards in time, but maybe our thoughts can. Then our future selves are sending us messages. Feelings are the language of the message. You can’t leave notes like Bill and Ted. It’s not the Holy Ghost, it’s time travel.