Thank you very much James.

Each essay is helping to enlighten a little bit, the totality gives perhaps a good view of our goals.

I am now gonne read yours.

best regards

Wilhelmus

Dear Wilhelmus de Wilde,

i am starting now to read your essay, it may take some time but i will comment on it when i am finished!

Dear Wilhelmus de Wilde,

your lines of reasoning remind me of the many near-death experiencers which had been interviewed and can be watched on youtube. They report some similar things. Especially there are cases where the experiencer could take a view into his future (and the things indeed developed due to what he/she saw - but not in the sense of a self-fullfilling prophecy).

Some say that there are these life-lines of me and you, attached with different probabilities. But i would be cautious, because the paranormal can sometimes trick an experiencer with some information that does confirm what he/she does blieve anyways. I would not built a worldview out of what these things, but i restrict myself to only take the phenomenon as existing and the OBE's, the confirmations of what has been seen during the latter and the Healings also, as i annotated in my essay. Because it also could well be that the fact that in a near-death experience one can receive a look into ones own future, this is not due to a lawful metaphysical (mechanical) structure in these realms, but due to the sheer power of the entity which reins there (and knows all our subconsicousness) and which has created our world in the first place.

I would not necessarily connect free will and the measurement process and consciousness as proving that if a quantum event is observed by a human, it does alter its behaviour. Remember that decoherence does explain this phenomenon also, without reference to human observers. Nonetheless i agree that due to free will, the observer can facilitate his/her own life - well, theoretically, but practically there are many things in life that aren't under our control, so i would not attribute a special role to a human observer when it comes to observe some quantum events. This would only lead to self-inflation as it seems obvious to me in esoteric circles, the latter believing that we can create everything we want (due to mere tought-control and such things!).

I agree with you that the ranking of past and future can well be considered as not being rigid in the traditional order, there are possibilities (like i mentioned above) that this time structure isn't fundamental.

Regarding the multiverse approach, i think that it could be that all possibilities are somewhat there in an abstract realm, independently of noticing them or not. But i would not necessarily conclude from this that this is a kind of natural law, but would firstly conclude that it also could well be a strategy for God to trace the possiblities what i will do next with my free will (if he does not know this for sure in advance) and transfer me to a better life-line if i would pray for that (he surely wouln't necessarily transfer me to the life-line *i* would prefer at the moment, but to the one God has identified to be the most likely for me to make it back to him without taking me my free will).

Your essay is highly philosophical and metaphysical. Although the importance of consciousness in the whole scheme of things seems to be guaranteed for me (due to my considerations in my essay and my comments during the current essay contest), it is not entirely clear to me how knowledge about different timelines can solve the puzzles the current essay contest is concerned with. your considerations make some sense, they are - as far as i can see - consistent, but i miss some arguments which could underpin that your assumptions are a logical, means necessary consequence of something other, already known scientific or logical fact. Anyways, you made your case for a reality which is more than a deterministical and reductionistic machinery. Nonetheless, by searching for the meaning of life and all the rest, one has also to consider moral, ethical questions and also the problem of theodizee, the problem of evil - and if one believes in God as a personal intelligent entity, what this entity wants/wishes from us humans - and for us humans. And last but not least, how it is that we do live in a realm separated from this entity. I think if one does ponder about other dimensions and consciousness without such considerations, one has left out some important questions about fundamental reality. But because you have taken at least into account that the mentioned life-time-like dimensions could exist as possibilities, i give you a better rating than i would have done without. Because this could be a possible mechanism to explain the delayed choice experiments (and the other quantum weirdness).

Best wishes,

Stefan Weckbach

    Dear Wilhelmus,

    Thank you for your attention to my questions; your answers are really helpful. Following your invitation, I will ask you a bit more in order of better understanding.

    You write: "These "availabilities" (available life/time lines) are forming you could say the "ALL". This ALL cannot be a complete set when any of the life-line availabilities are missing. So the specific life-line reality that you are experiencing NOW is essential for the completeness of ALL." I think an important point is the meaning of these "ALL", its completeness. Does it mean that all thinkable worlds/availabilities are realized, even really bad? Or, may be, following Leibniz, your ALL include only the best of all possible worlds?

    Your essay is very different from others, and I highly appreciate this difference.

    Best,

    Alexey.

    Dear Stephan,

    Thank you for your honest comment on my essay.

    I would like to add some explanations for you :

    NDE:

    When our emergent body and mind complexity is reaching the finish of a certain life-line, it is still our restricted form of consciousness that stays "entangled" with Total Consciousness in TS. At that very point of the time-line, the restricted part (in the body) and the Total are very "close", so information of other available life-lines can leak through, or maybe even the singularity of Total Consciousness may become more "available" (maybe for us in the form of a bright light.

    Quantum observations by human beings.

    First of all I would like to enlarge the observers with animals, trees, plants etc, so every "living" agent. In my essay I indicated already that we are living in the past (80 milliseconds). The moment the "observation" is realised, the observer is not yet consciouss of what he observes. Furthermore each observation is about a wave function that gives us the probability of measuring the location or speed of a "particle". Once this probability has become a "certainty" it is about a certainty from the past. From the time of observation decoherence takes over, and the particle side of this emergent entity continues its way to the screen. (2 slit experiment). So decoherence is caused by measurement (observation). The specific time-line of the observer and its object has changed with the action of. The only neccecity for this event in our emergent phenomenon called reality is consciousness, because without consciousness ther would be no evaluation of the location/speed so no change....the wave would not "collapse". This is in agreement with my reamark that without consciousness there would not be any emergent phenomenon.This is the cause that we are experiencing the "FLOW" of reality.

    Multiverse:

    My perception is that each form of Multiverse and or paralel Universeis just an availability in Total Simultaneity that only becomes an emergent reality once there is a consciouss agent touching it with its (in our case) through time and space restricted life-line. The unity of Total Consciousness and Total Simultaneity (God ?) gives reason for nay time/life-line. Of course it is not a "physical" law in our own emergent reality, but just because of the fact that we are thinking about it (evaluations of our consciousness) confirms the existance of these probabilities.

    regarding : logical assumptions:

    You are right with your conclusion that me neither can explain EVERYTHING. Knowledge about different life/time-lines (that will always stay unknown by us because hey only "exist" as probabilities. It takes other emergent realities and consciousness agents to make them an experienced FLOW. ALL these flows (from agents) exist in TS. There is no time nor space in TS so we could even conclude that they are ALL represented as eternal singularities. The logic of my thoughts brought me to this perception taking in acount my own experiences (scientific and personnel).

    moral:

    When I am looking at our emergent reality and specifically our earth then I observe that each living being is just busy with survival (eating other species) and procreation (love and agression). The beauty of nature from flowers and the colours of autum are expressions of survival and procreation. The moment we a child is born it is for us the ultimate happiness. We don't yet take into account the food neede for continuing this life (his footstep on nature, the rest of the survivers). The counterside of this is that humanity is earching for a reason of life, the WHY. Religions are giving us support that there is a better life after death. Every human being (even atheists) is looking for GOD (their TEO). This search gives us a calm that has nothing to do with survival (in this earth) and procreation, but with our HOPE that after death there will be something better.

    It is this hope that drove me to search for a for me (and perhaps for others) acceptable explanation of GOD. My perception is not yet complete, I know, but I continue to think, and this essay contest , the essays I am reading (like yours) gives me more HOPE.

    best regards

    Wilhelmus

    Dear Alexey,

    I will try to explain what I meant with ALL and the completeness of the Total YOU.

    I introduced the TOTAL Consciousness, including the Total Consciousness of ALL agents.

    An emergent agent in an emergent reality is just ONE life-line of that specific agent. The agent there is an individual because he is not the complete Unity. The emergent agent is furthermore restricted through time an space while the Totality is time and spaceless.

    The Total YOU could be described (in our restricted way) as the totality of ALL possible (and the impossible : the ones you did not yet think about) and available time/life-lines.

    So YES, all the bad ones are available too. But also the "best of all worlds" is an availability.

    During the FLOW of a specific time/life-line each NOW moment decisions are made and your specific time/life-line switches, the time/life-line you left still is available in TS.

    This process of continually switching and the coexistance of availabilities of the time/life-lines that are not chosen, I described as the origin of FREE WILL.

    In this specific emergent reality the time/life-line you are experiencing as a FLOW may exist as a singularity in TS, this doesn't mean that also your future would be concrete for this specific FLOW. Each Eternal Now Moment represents its own time/life-line. The emergent FLOW that we seem to live in can be compared to a time and spaceless singularity in TS.

    The complete YOU could be described as a complete set of singularities in TS.

    best regards and I like the exchange of thoughts with you.

    Wilhelmus

    Dear Wilhelmus,

    A great thing of your essay is its attempt to solve the entire puzzle, not just its part as many other. That is why I am asking you so many questions, trying to see it better. So, one more question :)

    As you may know, the fundamental laws of physics are very special (see Discoverability Principle in our essay). I think this fact is too important to be disregarded by ontology. Why do you think the laws are what they are? How can this fact be understood within your worldview?

    Cheers,

    Alexey.

    Dear Stefan,

    On your question : when are the changes taking place ?

    In my perception (theory) the reality you are aware of (formed by the memories you have from your birth untill NOW) is an "emerging phenomenon". When YOU are changing to another time/life-line maybe your new emergent memory contains a whole other "past". At hat very NOW moment you won't be aware of the changed memory. It will seem as if your life-line is continuing its "normal" flow. This can happen easily with emergent phenomenae. Concrete reality as we seem to experience is only an illusion (I don't like to use this word, but it explains the meaning sometimes easier than "emergent phenomenon". The changing of time-life-lines does not mean that the time/life-line you left is no longer "existing", indeed it doesn't exist any more in your New NOW experience, but still exists as "availabilities" (Eternal NOW Moments) in Total Simultaneity. It could be compared to changing to another document on your word processor, the documents you worked on before are still available on the harddisk.

    The what you are calling "updates" are not updates of NATURE, they are (see illustration 3 of my essssay) switches to other paths in TS, they have no influence on the emergent realities the agent iwas experiencing before the switch. Nature does NOT change (in the materialistic way). That is why I think that my perception is an easier explanation as the Many Worlds Interpretation, the splitting up in MWI leaves any moment two more "materialistc universes...while in mine the no longer experienced reality becomes (not in the new emergent reality) just a path of availabilities.

    The consistency and rationality of the physical microworld:

    Our collective memory informs us about the so called "progression" in our observations, from the pure philosophical ones of the Greek to the scientific results from the LHC and the perception of our UNiverse. This whole collective memory is a construction from a past , a specific time-line, forming the awareness of the position of our consciousness in this specific emergent reality.

    It consistancy and rationality is created by consciousness interpretations and dependant of the specific NOW moments experienced by its agents. They can change any moment...(see above).

    GOD does not know how a partcle....

    The quantum side of this emergent reality gives us already the idea of the blurriness of reality opposite to the much easier to understand concreteness of it. The lower the scale the more we approach the Planck Wall so Total Simultaneity and Total Consciousness, the more we are approaching the idea of GOD. Total Simultaneity and Total Consciousness are the ALL that we as restricted parts of it cannot understand. So although we are part of ALL as restricted emergent entity we cannot reach this totality (only hyperbolicly). My perception is that "GOD" (TS) does not need to "know" everything because it IS everything. The concepts "knowing" and "understanding" are imbedded in the restrictions of time and space.

    Projections result in a data stream onto spacetime:

    The word projections could be used to explain the contact between the emergent restricted consciousness and Total Consciousness in TS. I prefer to use the term of this "contact as entanglement. Space-time is an emergent entity from TS, the stream is NOT a stream, this stream also can be called the FLOW that we experience as emergent reality.(and is compressed in a NOW moment). This time restricted FLOW (stream) is only existing for the mergent agent in his emergent reality.

    The program that cannot be altered is in my opinion not a positive approach of our existence.First of all it is your free will at any ENM that that can change the flow of your life-line in TS. As a matter of fact the possibilities of so much probable life-lines is a very positive thought. The only back-draw is that we do not yet have the oppotunity to have infuence of REALLY change between these life-lines, at this very moment we may indeed be changing but still we are NOT AWARE. So I agree fullywith your last sentence : we have to transcend the limits (restrictions) of space and time in order to make a closer contact with Total Simultaneity.

    I hope this explained a little bit more my point of view and also hope you can give me a rating.

    best regards

    Wilhelmus de Wilde

    Dear Wilhelmus,

    thank you so much for your comments.

    I fully aggree: the lower the level, the more we approach GOD.

    As i wrote above, i already voted your essay.

    You wrote: "The concepts "knowing" and "understanding" are imbedded in the restrictions of time and space."

    This is interesting. i have to ponder about it.

    Best wishes

    Stefan Weckbach

    And yes, i fully agree to "Every human being (even atheists) is looking for GOD (their TEO). This search gives us a calm that has nothing to do with survival (in this earth) and procreation, but with our HOPE that after death there will be something better."!

    Yes, humans can sacrifice their life to something and many people do it day by day (in war, in terrorism). How can one explain this with the in-built Darwinian programs of survival? This is an example where human choices are independent of biological necessities.

    Thanks for your sentence which inspired me to think about it this way and to find a counterexample to the survival-credo!

    Dear Alexey:

    Sorry for my later rection but I had work to do.

    Your last question was

    quote

    As you may know, the fundamental laws of physics are very special (see Discoverability Principle in our essay). I think this fact is too important to be disregarded by ontology. Why do you think the laws are what they are? How can this fact be understood within your worldview?

    unquote

    In my worldview the "LAWS" of Physics are rules that were discovered in the past of our emergent reality. The "flow" of the emergent reality we are experiencing right now is based on the social memory of this (emergent)specific time/life-line. (We experience each NOW moment as a flow from the past to the NOW).

    The past with ALL his available data (history, scientific laws etc) is just ONE time/life-line. We think that we are flowing into a future that is a logical continuation of this past.

    However it is also possible that when changing time/life-lines we also can enter a NEW past with different data and "Laws", this is possible at any Eternal Now Moment. So the word FACT is highly uncertain, see also the remark from banks : "PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE FOR FUTURE RESULTS" that I used on page one of the essay.

    I hope I cleared this question, and hope that you will be rating my essay soon.

    best regards and happy future

    Wilhelmus

    Dear Wilhelmus,

    Thank you for your answers. Your essay is much deeper than many other. I think its main drawback is its insensitivity to Wigner's 'unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics', which is one of the most fundamental facts about the universe. That is why I score your essay high, but not ultimately high :)

    All the best,

    Alexey.

    Dear Wilhelmus,

    Thank you for your post on my page.

    I have read your essay with great interest and we seem to agree on a lot of points.

    Your multiple emergent realities approach is similar to mine but in your case they don't seem to be connected in any meaningful way and once lived, each moment is back into oblivion. In my approach, past/present/future exist simultaneously and we are just going through each moment at the speed of light. This means that there is a limited number of "you" living your life at any one time (equal to the number of moments in your life). Each moment in your life forms your "lifeline" and is linked with the adjacent moments but each moment can change (in a limited way) at every new moment. So effectively, your past and your future can change but as far as you are concerned you can't see it because you can only "see" your present "now". I hope you get the idea.

    As requested, I will rate your essay.

    All the best,

    Patrick

      Dear Wilhelmus,

      I am happy to re-meet you here in FQXi Essay Contest.

      I have just read your interesting Essay. Despite it is a bit speculative, I consider it being a remarkable work which gave me fun. Thus, you deserves the highest score that I am going to give you. Good luck in the Contest!

      Here is our Essay

      Cheers, Ch.

        Dear Patrick

        What you are describing in your essay is just in other words what i am thinking.

        Every NOW moment the FLOW can change, which means also the past, so the memory.

        Once lived means for me, the emergent phenomenon of that specific life line still is an availability in TS, exploring thsi idea further and trying to remember that also the ME is an emergent phenomenon it can mean that The life you are seeming to live now is an eternal sequence in the time and space restricted emergent reality.

        I very much agree with your thoughts.

        best regards

        thank you for the rating

        Wilhelmus

        Dear Christian,

        Thanks a lot for your comment on my essay.

        I have read with great interest the work of yourself and the co-authors.

        The gravitational waves trembled through the text.

        The goal of any wave is insecure, it goes on and on.

        You also deserve a high rating.

        best regards

        Wilhelmus

        Hi Wilhelmus,

        It is always nice to hear that your ideas are shared by others.

        Please rate my essay when you can, I just got a "1", not cool !

        Cheers,

        Patrick

        8 days later

        I enjoyed reading your essay Wilhelmus...it has been a bit busy around Quantum Gravity Research with our new movie 'What Is Reality' that just came out explaining a bit about our work, so forgive the limited input here. Your essay was VERY interesting!

        I gave you the highest score and I wish you luck in this essay contest and continued success in your research work.

        Cheers!

        Klee

          Hi Wilhelmus, I just wanted to let you know that I have enjoyed reading read your well written essay. You have clearly explained your model and I have a better understanding now of the ways in which your and my own model of reality diverge. Good to read all of the positive reviews and replies. It is clearly attracting attention and interest. Kind regards Georgina

          Thanks a lot Klee

          Pls keep me informed about your movie "What is Reality"

          Maybe my articles may be of assistance with your search.

          This afternoon I am gonne read your participation.

          best regards

          Wilhelmus