This seems to me to be attributing a lot of complex things to consciousness that needn’t be. To my view, although all things exist in all states all at once at

This seems to me to be attributing a lot of complex things to consciousness that needn’t be. To my view, although all things exist in all states all at once at some level (time being just a 4th feature of space, and all possible permutations of all dimensions being fundamentally extant, a fully populated vector mapping, by analogy) By extension, time as we perceive it is strictly illusory. Perception is only possible in subdomains of the universe where the presence of the observer is permissible (right circumstances and compatible laws of physics) Perception in humans requires an entropic process of electrochemical activity. Entropic processes imply a time vector. That is why we can only perceive reality in the context of a vector through space time, with time being relative but essentially linear. Any other vector type would preclude entropy and by extension, observation. In this way we are able to perceive all universes in which our existence is permissible and self consistent with our existence on the reverse track (universe states which can entropically evolve from a previous state where we also existed as an observer or a prototype observer) When we observe things closely we can understand that they a are mostly “right here” but also a little to the left and right, and a tiny bit everywhere. The locus of a thing is where it exists, on average, within the entire spectrum of universes which support our past and present existence on the entropic vector. We see this in Casimir force, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, and other well documented features of our reality. In fact, the less probable that something will interact with our existence (distance in time or space) the less focused its position and motion becomes… because it is less limiting to the bandwidth of universes we can exist in while observing it. There are a lot of fascinating implications of this conjecture, but so far they all seem to be consistent with observable phenomenon.