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The Infinite Now

Dimensions are means of expressing information about something; we take height, depth, length but we can also add time, weight, spin, orientation or as many as are required to plot what we can know of existence. This full amount of information will represent a single form of reality but because an infinite number of information sets can exist, possibly, within an infinite combination, then we can have an infinite number of realities.

In the same manner that quantum theory has states of reality that 'become' only when observed, so 'Time' is the track of our consciousness as it sifts through infinite realities that then 'become'; moving from the possible to the probable to the actual . However, we must keep in mind that all infinite realities are already in existence in what I think of as 'The Infinite Now'.

A single continuum with a fixed dimension of time means that the future and past exist already, awaiting our arrival, and by the nature of this theory, the future is predetermined. Normally this association of predetermination is unpalatable, it is thought of as meaning that choice is an illusion - I disagree with this interpretation, in that the 'self' that also exists in the future would be making choices as well. It merely states that you have already chosen your future but your 'now-consciousness' will remain unaware of these choices.

The Infinite Now is a little different. As it allows for all possible choices to have been made, there can be no predetermination as all possibilities are equally true in alternate realities. The choice of the self, the aspect of free-will we naturally are drawn to remains intact.