(March 22, 2014 at 2:58 pm)Pickup_shonuff Wrote:(March 22, 2014 at 2:30 pm)Heywood Wrote: You've already made the future choice, your just not conscious of it yet.
What? The "future" already exists? I'm not going to pretend that I have a firm grasp on Einstein's theory of relativity but I have a creeping suspicion that this is not a correct (or coherent) conclusion.
The question also doesn't really have anyhing at all to do with relativity, and everything with quantum theory. If you subscribe to a deterministic interpretation of QM, the future already exists, because the entire timeline it is uniquely determined by any one snapshot of it (which consists of the quantum state of the universe plus the hidden variables) plus the laws of physics. If you subscribe to a non-deterministic interpretation, the future is not uniquely determined. If you subscribe to the many worlds interpretation, the future is already determined in the sense that you will make all possible choices in parallel. The future of a randomly selected observer- path through this multiverse is again random.
