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Originally Posted by Number 2 Pencil
I like to think that every single quantum fluctuation causes the universe to split into every possible direction that fluctuation can result in. Which means that every decision you made that could have gone in multiple directions, some version of you has chosen ALL those directions. Then there are an infinitely many universes being created every instant of time, and we are sort of doing a 'random walk' in choosing which universe our particular consciousness traverses. If our consciousness could somehow 'choose' which path to traverse, then that would be free will from our particular point of view, but from the point of view of an outside-the-universe observer, everything happens somewhere in the ever-branching series of possibilities, and free will would be an illusion.
Yep, the damn cat in the box is alive and dead.
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No.#2, maybe we each exist in our own constantly unfolding universe that is effected by every decision we make... and everyone else makes?