I don't know if it gets any simpler:

[wolven7]

If all states of affairs that can possibly exist do, in fact, exist, in potential, then all currently apprehending states of affairs ("the present") are affectd by previously apprehending but no longer real states of affairs ("the past") as well as potentially apprehending but not yet occuring states of affairs ("the future"). They are matricies of potential, interacting in a vast soup thereof.

In this probabilistic expression of reality, any currently apprehending state carries in it the seeds of the "future's" potential, from most to least probable. For that probability to make itself known, via unconscious process of extrapolation, resulting in sound or images that may later come to past is not that different from a memory of "the past" or a dream about a person you know, wherein they do or say something in line with "their character."

What happens now carries with it and is affected by what has happened in the past (merely a previous now) and what may happen in the future (an ass-yet-unrealised Now).

The past decays in probability, the further we get from it, its effects meaning less and less, and more and more, decaying building blocks in a Babel called "History." In much the same way, we already understand that the probability of a "future" event crystalises closer to 0/1, the closer we come to its fruition. Now is the clearest point, and we still see it differently.

Probability soup: everything flavours everything else.

Jeezus.

Comments

[sadistic-apollo.livejournal.com]

-gasp!-

You mean all those ridiculous motivational posters weren't full of crap!?

the next thing you'll be tellin me is that J.K. Rowling has single handedly reinvented magic. (which is part of the reason that I refuse to read the H.P. books)

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Reinvented? No. Introduced a whole new generation to some good concepts? Un/Fortunately, yes.

[sadistic-apollo.livejournal.com]

yeah.... Good thing? not so much =/

I'd like to have my reality modifying powers in the hands of people that have no idea what 'hookin up' is.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Bah. Never going to happen. Plus, most kids? Stupid as hell, and not going to get it.

Done for the few.

[sadistic-apollo.livejournal.com]

it doesn't matter whether they get it or not, it's how much they believe.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

See mech_angel's second most recent post for her conversation about the difference between real belief and stated belief. Also false belief is a possibility, funny as that sounds.

[unknownbinaries.livejournal.com]

Kids who aren't serious don't get past the amount of Hard Fucking Work you have to put into any of that. The ones who are will grow and learn from it, and become Better. It's what happened to me. ;)

[unknownbinaries.livejournal.com]

She reinvented nothing. They're fun and cute.

Shit, even Gaiman didn't reinvent. He just told the really old stuff in really, really good ways. Reminded everyone.

[benlehman.livejournal.com]

It seems to me that you're stuggling with the arrow of time. In classical physics, there is no difference if you run time backwards or forwards -- the laws work out the same.

It's a fact of classical physics, though, not modern physics. The two are very different!

[unknownbinaries.livejournal.com]

Dear, how in Hells do you manage to make simple concepts so very complex, and then simple again? XP

[wolven.livejournal.com]

I just talk, and shit comes out. Then I hope it makes as much sense as it did, in my head.