Religion

[eliasfrost]

I can see where this is coming from and it's conceivable to a degree, but wouldn't that also mean that nature itself is concious and is having the ability to choose and pick? What does that make of nature then? Is it an entity, or is this choice purely random?

EDIT/ If it all is determined by nature, then nature would have dictated all my previous choices leading up to this point, right? That sounds a lot like fate to me, have we gone full circle?

And if it was all random, that would make no sense, since some of my decisions are made based on previous decisions. Say I have the choice to pick a red or green lego brick, if this choice was random it wouldn't matter either way, but if I then was presented with another choice: between a blue and a yellow brick, but this time the choice I made earlier would dictate the outcome of this choice, I want to structure this a bit for simplicity:

1) choose red or green: doesn't matter, the randomness doesn't really affect anything at this point.
- Say I happen to choose green.
2) Now I get to choose blue or yellow, but this time the rules are changed a bit. Now, if I chose red earlier, I would get a reward by picking blue, but a punishment by chosing yellow. But if I chose green earlier, the reward and punishment is reversed.

Of course I would choose yellow, since I chose green previously. This choice is influenced by my previous choice and if nature was randomly choosing for me, I would have a 50/50 chance to pick either blue or yellow, which isn't the case, I chose yellow because I would get a reward. So that would mean it's not random. /EDIT

Many-worlds theory, yes. It's an interesting concept but I'm extremely skeptical to it. It's interesting how widespread that theory has become, especially in fiction. It's also one of the theories that get a lot of attention in other areas, almost to the point of being a feasible theory which is unbelievable IMO. It has more applicability in science-fiction than in real science, it's way too much hocus pocus and wishing that such a "cool" concept were real. And it throws me off.