Superposition of choices

Did you know that at a particular moment in time, the choice that can influence the life you want and the choice that can destroy what you have--co-exist in an equal manner?

Keep an open mind. Let's put on our thinking hats. Shall we?

Right!!

The superposition of choices refers to the idea that your choices are in all possible states at the same point in time until some are chosen to be made.

This means that at a certain period of time our chances of losing and winning at something are all the same. What matters is how clearly we understand our choices as Warren buffet said that "Risks come from not knowing what you are doing".

Consider this simple view to look at the choices in a world of randomness by considering quantum mechanics.

Quantum mechanics is a theory of the atom, it is based on the idea of the probabilities that you cannot know where the electron is, in some sense, the electron is in multiple states at the same time. It includes the idea that you cannot measure the position and velocity of a particle at the same time. The more precisely the position is known the more uncertain its momentum and vice versa (this is known as the Heisenberg uncertainty principle).

There are some things you can predict with certainty and other things you cannot. The difference between science and metaphysics lies here: for science, the end is contained in the beginning; for metaphysics the end is open.

Let’s try to understand this and see how in the long run who you are now will evolve into a big version of the current self. By bringing this scientific determinism into the metaphysical world of choices whose end seems to be open; we are ensuring a good open-end with blossoms of good choices in a wide spectrum of life in the time being.

If you want to predict what will happen at a particular moment in time, you use events that may share similarities to some that had happened in the past, your predictions can be based on some similar events for you to extrapolate for better accuracy. This is our human way of comparative thinking.

Throw a ball in the air at a given velocity and a physics formula will tell you when and where it will land. Its landing spot is decided the moment it leaves your hand; here the beginning contains the end and the end is equally contained in the beginning.

However, the bone to chew is this: without choice, there is absolutely no time.

In a deterministic system where the beginning contains the end, the beginning and end occur without advancement along true time. Hold this thought, you will understand it much better below.

To chew it well let’s consider Schrodinger’s cat, an experiment designed by Erwin Schrodinger during the Copenhagen interpretation of superposition as it applies to quantum mechanics.

In simple terms, Schrödinger stated that “if you place a cat and something that could kill the cat (such as a toxic acid which will be triggered by a decaying radioactive element in a box and seal it. After 30 min you would not know whether the cat is dead or alive unless you open the box to find out”.

At that instant, before you open the box the cat exists in both states. As basic as that you cannot be sure whether it is dead or alive, so the best answer is to conclude that the cat is both dead and alive at the same time unless you open the box to find out.

That is a quantum superposition, a quantum probabilistic event where something can co-exist in both states, we can use this experiment in a metaphorical way to expand our grasp on the spectrum of choices.

At any time, it occurs to you to make choices just know that all those available choices in the form of thoughts you have--exist in both-equal states regarding future influence, an instant that can judge the good or bad consequences. At this very moment, a choice itself carries its own beginning and end impacts. So as to say the beginning is contained in the end, and the end is contained in the beginning.

During that time of thoughts superposition of choices, you are either winning or losing at the same time without advancement along true-time itself—which means your chances of winning and losing are equal. What matters again from that, is what you tend to give the chances to happen according to your personal preferences, needs, goals, values, confusions, and priorities.

In other words, a finite line between those chances of winning and losing lies in the understanding of your choices at the very moment where both states co-exist before any unfolding into reality we know

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That means whenever you make a choice you should be good at your predictions whether it’s going to be a dead cat or an alive one.

Understand what your choices can attract in a long term instead of living with the confusion of the cat you are after may be either dead or alive, open the box of your concerns to find out. Draw the lines of distinctions between your concerns and your end expectations.

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Writen by Fred Mugisha