He came up with a framework where time is real (assumed), and then the laws of physics evolve with time, and then goes on to develop an evolutionary theory of universes, where universes reproduce by producing black holes, which spawn baby universes, with slightly different laws of physics. He then predicts that it should tend to produce universes that are optimized to produce black holes.
He starts with a premise that if time is a real and fundamental feature, then he concludes the future isn’t predetermined.
So far, it’s not very interesting.
For example, It’s funny how often that people who claim to believe in free will often adopt the language of determinism when they say things like:
“It was meant to be”
Or, “Everything happens for a reason”
Personally, I think the general population is just confused and not particularly inquisitive when it comes to asking whether they have free will or whether their actions and language reflect their belief or lack of.
I suspect a feeling of determinism probably takes over when one feels like they’re on autopilot and lack a locus of control.
Does it correlate with being susceptible to cults, group think and parroting other people’s ideas like a consumer rather than synthesizing your own?
It's known that being deluged with information tends to suspend one's own critical faculties in attempting to cope with the flow. Perhaps internet life, by tending to crowd out one's own thoughts, contributes to a sense of loss of will.
People who emerge from an "internet cleanse" seem to be refreshed in a way that might be interpreted as the regaining of will, of freedom to formulate.
Or I might be full of balonie.
It would also make sense evolution would choose not to change this programming.
There are also species of animals that literally do not age.
The saying that entropy always wins the war is disingenuous as life wins the battles that we can see insofar.
Why did consciousness arise from matter at all, does it disappear or is it transformed.
If you only limit yourself to what you can see then existence is rather dull and seemingly mechanically. Every time we look we see little more, and so is there really anything to suggest there is not more beyond what we can or will ever see.