Consciousness is the fundamental reality of the universe. Matter is secondary to consciousness.

If all potential states are actualized in one universe or the other, does that not mean that everything exists all at once? Forget free will in such a scenario. What does that mean for time?

“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
- Albert Einstein

“Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens.”
- Carl Jung

“You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.”
- Alan W. Watts

“The universe is wider than our views of it.”
- Henry David Thoreau

“The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.”
- Nikola Tesla