Diotima's Notes Pt 2
From the private notes of Diotima Erthrea
Notes so I remember:
In an infinite universe of infinite possibility, everything is by definition infinitely possible, so it is infinitely possible that i don't exist in any reality and simultaneously, that I exist in every reality.
Conclusion? A truly infinite universe cannot exist because its very existence would contradict itself.
This isn't a revelation. I've grasped this since I was a teenager. But events being what they are, I can't treat the multiverse as a hypothetical. It exists, therefore it has rules, therefore revisiting earlier ideas, hypotheses, seems relevant.
Q: How can an infinite multiverse exist if the aforementioned issue is true?
A: It cannot. But there are, to my understanding, countless (not infinite, but hard to count, keep up Dio) iterations of reality, so clearly possibility factors in. So what determines what becomes a branch reality? (I like this term.) That's the real question. Do we determine them through belief? Are they created by importance? Or is it all random?
I mean hells, maybe it's all simulated somehow and realities are generated by a limited set of choices. Would we even know? Or would we believe that our choices were freely made? That's a pleasant thought, not.
Anyway.
I don't know how important this is. Probably not at all. But I can't help but want to know. Are there other versions of Faerun, Earth realm? I suspect so, yes. Can we, as denizens of these realms, get there?
In a multiverse of infinite possibility, I'd say yes. In this universe of tempered probability, I'd say... I also believe it to be possible.
But I have been known to be wrong. Very occasionally. (That's jk, future me. You were not nearly that pretentious.)