Blog:Lex Futuri
Infinite present, infinite futures, and the magnitudes of infinity
The present gives way to the future.
The future is not known with certainty.
Even if the future of this moment in this reality is predetermined, there are many other possible futures that could have emerged from the substrate of a present like this.
All of these possible futures are infinite, but not all are equally likely and therefore of different magnitudes. I chose the word magnitude to describe this because many other terms currently used for such discussions didn't seem to encompass the concept well or had too much overlap.
The important point is that you will eventually experience all these futures and in the proportions by which they occur within the ultraverse. These proportions are something that we do not know and possibly will never know with certainty.
With single particles, we run into a similar dilemma as with the double-slit experiment. Through repeated trials we are able to discern the probabilities of different outcomes and from there the weights.
This is a similar problem: we have infinite presents that have infinite future outcomes but some outcomes are less frequent than others and thus the magnitudes differ.
With this concept in mind, one can be aware, to the extent a mind is capable, that there is a mosaic of possible futures that all occur. You will experience all of these possible futures eventually and all of them infinitely so but with varying degrees of magnitude or frequency.
And thus, Lex Futuri: Latin for "Law of Future."
Note: This is not to say that all possible configurations exist in a manner we can experience. Two possible configurations for reality may be valid on their own from a physics viewpoint but having one unfold into the next in a Planck second may either be impossible or too unstable for any experiential existence to experience.
In other words, this does not mean that "anything that can happen will happen" but rather anything that does happen does happen and in the proportions by which it occurs in relation to all realities. It may be the case that "anything that can happen will happen" but that is not the assertion here.