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A trip into the multiverse, morality, and conceptions of reality.

1. Many Worlds

   I do not believe that free will exists on an ultimate level. I believe in the multiverse, the total of all possible universes. I do not have any physical evidence. But I do feel, in my heart and in my mind, that it is improbable for anything to happen only one way. As such, all possibilities are carried out in an infinite amount of universes. And since (I believe) time does not exist in a linear fashion but in a static form—like the panels of a comic exist on one page, but are read in order to make sense of the story—the end transpires as the beginning is born. Therefore, free will does not exist. All the possible choices an individual can make are carried out nonchronologically in multiple worlds, but they are perceived as in motion by the human mind.

   The subsequent issue is: what does this mean for our lives? Ought we live without care to morality, human progress, and the wellbeing of the world around us? Here we come to this: free will does not exist, but is a necessary belief. We have the choice of giving in to negligent sin and selfish behavior with the assurance that overall it does not matter, but on a personal and sensory sense, it does. Our perspective is still the lens out of which we view and sense the world, and as such, we are still apt to experience the suffering of the widespread corruption of ethics and human decency. Our actions are largely a result of our conscience (in a personal sense); we must hold ourselves responsible for our apparent choices, and act accordingly to such principles as the categorical imperative lest we witness an increasingly vulnerable state in society, which conclusively reverberates back to the individual. As Mahatma Gandhi states, “Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.” Such a mentality is fitting for the existential dilemma of the multiverse.

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2. Q: What if the human mind assembles impressions so that personal realities do not accurately convey the nature of ultimate reality?