(The conclusions drawn forth are not simply hypothesis, but if the moderators feel the need, i am sure it will be seemed only a hypothesis... however... moving on)
Turning Back The Hands of Time in a Predetermined Observer-Dependant Universe
Is Consciousness a beaken of illusion? A mediation of maya? A dillusion of directionality? I question these thoroughly from a strictly scientific
point of view, and i am quite certain that the following thought experiment cannot be interpreted any other way without being a little biast.
Now, first i want to direct our attentions to the psychological arrow of time. It is a useful arrow for any oberving system whereas we find a
specific direction in time. Time of course, is not liner by nature. Linearity in time seems to evolve from having a specific knowledge of events
which unfold to become either the information of a past and some distinction of a future. The difference between the past and the future are pivotal
in our understandings of this particular thought experiment.
Whilst both the past and future are very real events (1) - and are predicted to happening right now paradoxically by relativity, we seem to have a
problem of bias in how we personally distinguish what is a correct ''direction'' to the universe. In fact, directionality without any observer is then
left to the statistics of quantum mechanics alone, and ultimately the Schrodinger Equation. We must know for a fact now that any specific directionality of
the uncovering of events must break down without an observer to collapse the wave function (2). Thus if an oberver was not about, we then deal with
the statistical nature of the wave function, which in turn would be ultimately God playing with the proverbial dice.
We know from experimentation that directionality seems to be totally subliminal, kept close to the conscious observer as events are unfolded and processed
into knowledge of events, which then provide a basis of such a direction. This direction we have come to distinguish as ''forward,'' rather than
''backward.''
Predeterminism now enters the question. If the universe is predetermined, then we cannot really have any real choices. We cannot be held responsible
ultimately for the decisions we make. But if the universe where to have a sudden symmetry in time (where everything began to move backwards in time),
predeterminism should be found to yield the same as it would forward as it would backwards.
Premise one
If the universe evolves exactly the same way as it does forward as it does backward in time is evidence in the equations that everything is
predetermined
If consciousness is ultimately not an extension of time nor of space, then it is arguable that only conscious observers can exist in a universe that
is predetermined from some beginning, and back to whence that beginning had came from. Let me explain with more clarity what this might mean.
Dr Hawking argues that the conscious observer will be aware of events that move backward in time (3), and if this is true, then we are to believe
that even though quantum statistical averages might also be reducing in the brain, this will not effect our capability of knowing events moving backward (4).
These quantum systems do not effect our ability know, even when moving back in time - suggesting that the human consciousness is not dependant on a specific
arrow. If we are indeed to believe we would be aware of events also moving backward, then quantum systems are provided the necessery information to collapse
exactly the same way they had forward as they had backward, and hence the strange contention of this thought provoking experiment. It seems that events
moving foward are certainly predetermined in a universe which has a specified symmetry in time which relies on the observer to provide some kind of
information in how to de-evolve, or simply reduce back in the entropy it had excelled in.
I feel this is a proof experiment that a predetermined universe is the only solution when taking into account an observer-interdependancy-theory and that
with how we interpret the direction of time, because if there was nothing predetermined, then there is absolutely nothing stopping us from saying
without complete insanity that our pasts are not real now, nor is the evolution of our pasts increadibly important, which is a very disturbing thought.
(1) - Parallel Universes, 1985, Dr Wolf
(2) - The quantum zeno effect
(3) - A Brief History of Time, Dr Stephen Hawking
(4) - Unless we are to believe Hawking is wrong in this example, then our ability to know in any coherent sense would simply break down without the correct
directionality the human observer seems to make sense out of reality at large is solely interdependant on what direction in time consciousness has chosen
to be the only way to process knowledge, and thus be conscious as a whole. So it might be, that consciousness is not necesserily a product of the low
entropy located in the past cone, but rather consciousness has chosen to exist in one direction because it simply can't in the other. This would be
the only thing that would stop this thought experiment from actually being a workable theory.
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Only the mind can think twice simultaneously about a subject, but only one thing can inexorably come out of it. A choice.