We know we are actually experiencing the past i.e. the now is a past experience. This has been shown by Benjamin Libet in his experiments.

So if we live or experience the past and this is known as the NOW then all nows are actually pasts.

If we look to our pasts and see that all paths to each other are in a direct line i.e. a cause and effect then we know that to be a truth, that is to say we can verify one and only one direct resulting effect came about due to one particular cause. We can imagine that there were an infinite number of possible effects from that one cause but in the end there was one and only one cause per effect.

So we say there has only been one path and not a multitude of possible paths that got us to here and now.

So if we accept this as true then it also has to be true in all futures.

Now if we actually live or experience a now that is actually past, we know that light travels at the speed of light so all information we receive comes to us at the speed of light and enters our eyes but then goes through the rods and cones and then gets converted into electromechanical signals which are transmitted by sodium atoms and this is slower than light speed.

So light comes in and is slowed down for processing in the brain.

Now we know there are billions if not trillions of neurons in the brain. So this information that is slowed down and transmitted throughout the brain is in effect slowed still more.

So the question remains, how can something slow down the speed of light?

Einstein stated that as you approach the speed of light rulers contract, time slows but oddly mass increases?

So is the information coming into our eyes since it is under the control of light, contracted?

In effect if we are truly experiencing the past as a now, then we are never in control of our future.

How can we being and existing in a past or rather experiencing it have any control on what is taking place out there up ahead?

This up ahead is similar to star treks transporter. Every moment it starts to materialize and then becomes fact or actuality.

The question arises how the hell are you there in the future while you can only experience the past or what has happened?

It must be you, because each successive moments you experience what you have done.

This is where the past and how it is defined comes into play, when you look back you see a set one way path with only one decision being made to get you to the here and now, all infinite possibilities have been wiped clean.

This will be true ten years into your future, because it is true for your past, this is a truth.

This tells me that there are not an infinite number of possibilities at each point or second in my future.

If you analyze it, like if I am going to the supermarket, I will not end up in New York or end up at some sammich shop or find myself in Florida etc. So many things are ruled out even to the extent of putting sugar or pepper or bleach in my tea.

The bottom line is that there will be only one choice made, and like I stated earlier, you are not in the future to make that choice, by you I mean the you here and now.

So what I gather from all this is that when you came to be everything you have done was there, beginning to end.

Whether you believe in God or not, whatever is in control has given us the ability to see it all in a sort of slow motion movie,

Back to Einstein if something is traveling at the speed of light, like information that is entering our eye, how the hell can you or something slow down light especially since traveling at that speed we are told that rulers shrink?

So in essence the stuff that we receive by light or the speed of light which by definition should already be slowed I.E. clocks or shrunk rulers, how the hell can our brains slow it down further, Einstein did state that at the speed of light time slows or stops?????

When this speed of light information comes in it should be at a standstill and how the hell can a brain slow down information that is supposed to be topped or at a standstill?

Let me know where my logic is screwed.

Peace