God and the idea of infinite regress

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They do appear to exist. My sense is that they simply change based on whether or not our actions in a given day cause us to jump tracks to another story line. Consciousness is a very strange and unexplained thing.
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I think for any choice we make the opposite has to occur, the same is true for physical objects. But since it cannot happen on the same timeline, what you have is a simultaneous branching of timelines representing all possibilities in relation to a particular event.

It’s just a thought.
 
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I don’t think that the interpretation of quantum mechanics is a settled question.
 
If we imagine a moment in time then we can imagine that it could be described exactly as regards the position and direction and momentum of every particle at that moment. But we now know that there are no discrete 'moments' in time. If we consider a period of one hour, then that period can be artificially divided into minutes and then seconds and then fractions of a second but it makes no sense in reality.

The information that describes a point in time (let's say at 12:30pm as we perceive it) is just a slice through the information that describes the the position and direction and momentum of particles during the hour between 12:00 and 1:00pm.

Consider the information to be three dimensional, describing position, direction and momentum. You can spin that cube any way you want and slice it at any angle at any point and time has no direction. All you can determine is elapsed time.

So it would be literally impossible to say that the conditions at one point (wherever you sliced the information cube) caused or were the result of the conditions at another slice. And as we can only perceive one slice at a time - the present, it seems obvious tonus that there is a past and a future. Hence an arrow of time.

It's like being a 2d flatlander and not being able to envisage a third dimension. It is beyond us. But just like a 2d flatlander could mathematically describe a third dimension (and fourth and fifth etc), we can mathematically describe an existence that has no temporal direction but cannot mentally conceive it.
 
I doubt that any interpretations will be offered by the current generation of scientists, because the sciences have become so institutionalized in the past century in accordance with and burdened 19th century materialism as to render most scientists useless at coming to any conclusions, while they remain very useful in working out problems at a working level. They scare away from any discourse that even vaguely acknowledges spiritualism of any sort or allows for living beings being anything but “lumbering robots.” They are under the sway of a very closed minded hierarchy that includes the likes of people like Richard Dawkins. Some notable exceptions are Roger Penrose, Rupert Sheldrake and Dean Radin. I hope all of this will change with the next generation. I very much miss Terrence Mckenna these days. While his imagination was a bit over the top, at least he had one.

All the best
 
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