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Saw somewhere that this is tied to quantum mechanics. Essentially there are these observer agents at a subatomic level (think they said in the scale of plancks) witnessing things that are related to the wave function collapse. We are also considered observer agents due to the double slit experiment.
Coming from a reductionist standpoint, this could also explain how consciousness is formed. Since a large collection of small things form complex functions (i believe it's called emergence) and become it's own entity. A bunch of these observer agents are clustering in our brains thus forming the "self". Some researchers (not sure if woowoo or not desu) found that there are tiny tubes in our brains that are briming with activity when we are essentially awake. However, they used anasthesia and found these tubes show no activity as opposed to brain activity when you are asleep; there are still some semblance of activity in these tubes while we dream. It is interesting though that almost every dream we have is forgotten once we wake up.
Anyways, life is full of these 'what ifs'. When something is in superposition and exists in two states, all it takes is an observer to collapse the wave to create the reality we all live in
>Is there a past? Is it set in stone?
Anons are bringing up interesting points, might have to go with
>Exist
Yes
>Stone?
No
