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December 19, 2011

A Three-point Lesson

1) Entropy: That ultimate reaper of randomness. That king of confusion. That reason for us never knowing the extent of our being or the extent of our existence. The universe is constantly expanding. Well, here's a thought - you know how people are always saying the only constant change in the universe is entropy? If the universe is "constantly" expanding, isn't the volume of the universe also defined by a constant change? Like entropy, the volume of the universe would be defined by a mathematical equation, wouldn't it? It would be a constantly expanding sphere, wouldn't it? What lies outside the sphere, we'll talk about some other time or we'll leave it open for discussion with Perfect Melange. Right now, I'm leading up to something else.


2) Choice: We all have a choice - so they say. In every situation, every instant, we make a choice. Do I press the question mark key now? Will you read the next sentence or skip it? Do you even want to read the rest of this post? All choices. Each step we take, each choice we make creates a totally new definition for our universe. Each step we take, each choice we make creates a totally new universe where we did the opposite - simply put, the blue pill or the red pill, Neo. It is from this simple concept, the theory of the multiverse arrives. If every choice we make, splits the timeline in two, then, from the beginning of time, from the very first choice made, there have been the creation of infinite universes - each exactly like its parent universe until the point of split - each differing from its nearest twin by the weight of a single choice. In all my years of life and in all of yours, just imagine how many new universes we have created. Even as I write this and later when you're reading this, we would've created an infinite number of new worlds. What a concept! Makes you feel all powerful, dunnit?



3) Defined Universe: So, each time you make a choice, each time you exercise your freewill, you create a new universe, right? Wrong. Deflate, little balloon. Deflate. It is all predestined. The universe is ordered. From the beginning of time, the beginning of the universe, from the big bang, there has always been some order. The Chaos Theory defines "Life" as being the "Order at the edge of chaos". The universe is defined. From the moment the first choice was made and the spool began to unravel, it has been defined, although within limits, within a range, within which we are allowed a certain amount of freewill. The universe, from the moment the first choice was made, ceased to be the universe. It had split. It was a biverse. And then tetraverse and in a matter of seconds, a multiverse. Which begs to ask, what if there was no choice? If freewill is a non-existent concept, there would have to be no life. So, before life began, it was still a universe. Elements can't make decisions. They are governed by rules so strict, they make a Jew-hating Nazi colonel from the Third Reich seem like Santa Claus. The life of a non-living thing is more or less like - "Hmm. Vacuum, let me just do nothing and float around", "Hmm, Still vacuous.", "Oh no! Temperature's up by 200 degrees, boil over, boil over!" - Life came and free will emerged, universes split, new worlds created. All within the framework created, defined and executed by whatever it is that controls the multiverse. You and me are just puppets. Why? Simply because, every decision we make today is governed by some occurrence in the past. Nothing we do or say is random. Nothing is done on impulse. Everything is in some teensy way, connected to something you or your subconscious experienced before. Every decision, every choice, is just a probability function with past influences o your life as variables. Each past influence in your life, in turn, is another probability function with its past as variables; and so on and so forth, until - the very first choice! So, sorry my friend. But everything you have done, are doing or will do, is known and can be calculated pretty accurately provided all previous choices and decisions defining your particular world is known and the first choice is known.



It doesn't matter what you choose, because elsewhere, you'd have done the opposite. I suppose, its only a matter of whether you want to live with this or that. If you want to exist with "this", then "you" in another world would have to live with "that". There again is the quandary. If you've made the decision, then don't "you" in the other world have a choice at all? Must "you" in the other world take the leftovers after you've decided here? Don't "you" have freewill?

See? the choices that you and "you" make are defined by choices or occurrences previously occurred. It is all governed and predictable. The only choice you have is who you want to be and what you choose to be. You will be it, while "you" won't.