I’m writing this because I have no choice, or so I believe. The events that led up to this point are interesting, at least I think so. Observably, nothing interesting happened. I went to a seminar for entrepeneurs this evening and on my way home from there I had the idea of writing an entry on this site. The interesting events that I’m talking about are the patterns of unconscious thoughts whizzing through my brain, the exchanges of neurochemical messages, and the bouncing of electrons. I believe it was those little things that ultimately led me to write this right now.

I think that change exists only in our minds. Outside of our minds, nothing changes. Just like how the sun doesn’t move in relation to the earth, yet we see it rise and set day after day. I still can’t say how it’s possible for there to be no change when our view of the world always changes. I don’t think I’ll be ever able to point something out that shows that time itself is an illusion.

If I can remember what happened in the past and my future self will remember how I was now, then how can I say that things in the past could’ve been different? I could have decided differently in some situation, sure, but then the circumastances that drove me to that decision would had to have been different. And whatever caused those circumstances to be would also had to have been different, ad infinitum. And it isn’t a simple case of event A causing event B, except on the infintismal level of atoms bumping into other atoms and the forces that move them around.

I don’t see time and space as if they made up a film, with frame after frame. I see time and space as one continuous cable and every elementary particle in it is a wire that runs from one end of time to the other. Some wires twist together and form atoms, and some of these bundles twist around each other to form solar systems and galaxies. People, too, are bundles of running wires. As our cells divide, more wires are brought into the bundle, and as our cells die off, wires separate. And eventually, all the wires that make up who we are go their own separate way and we cease to be.

One of the most unrestricted things I can do is try to point out how restricted we all really are. And one of the most predictable things anyone can do is try to show that what I say can’t be true.

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