Don't Panic (or do)

So I saw the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, and I had read the book years ago, but it wasn't until recently that my brain started wrapping around this idea about the earth being a giant computer... and I thought about this, about cause and effect, and about our bodies, how they simply react to things that happen to them, both internally and externally... and I thought, does that apply psychologically as well, because if our emotions are controlled by chemicals pulsing through our brains, and those chemicals are controlled by I don't know what, what about how our brains store and recall things, or when we "come up with ideas"... are those "ideas" simply me reacting to something, be it psychological or physical or experiential, or most likely a combination of all of that... and I thought, "are we simply reactionary beings?"

And I took this further, and started thinking, "do I even have a choice in what I am thinking about, or am I simply reacting to my own experience and the world around me... Am I simply reacting? And I can't seem to find that I am not, unless I take into account the spiritual nature of things, which I still think I would be reacting to, actually.

So this thought pattern just takes off and I think, what does this mean about the world? If everyone and everything is simply reacting to everything else, then there must be a set outcome for every interaction, which leads to the next and the next, and carries over into memory which affects the next interaction... and I thought that if we had the technology and the information about cause and effect in the body and psychology of every living organism, and had information about the status of every molecule not only on the planet, but in the known, perceivable universe that could possibly affect us, then you could know how everyone would react to their entire lives throughout the end of time, that is if "you" were outside of the environment so that you wouldn't affect it.

So what would this theory say about the nature of fate? Or destiny? Or choice? Can you truly control anything? Well, I believe that we all think we do, and the fact is we cannot live without thinking that... it is a part of our framework of thought, programmed into who we are, physically. It is in our design. Because we can logically postualte a potential future action, even though we may not do it, we think that we could do it, and sometimes we do.

And if there is a set pattern of things (fate) so complex that we, honestly, could never understand it, then from the first moment the last thing was created, and all of the attributes of the universe were set in place and in motion, the end of all things was determined, because God can know all, and he can understand the place and existence of all things, because He created them. (Not to say that there is more to it than that, like the nature of time and God...) But if all that is set in place and at even the present time is in motion, then what is the nature of the earth, and what is the the culmination of existence for all things that exist on the earth?

But even if we could know about and "calculate" the end of existence, if we had the mass of data and the computer that could calculate it, we would then in essence be changing it, and at the point of knowing, that result would immediately become invalid, because that knowledge would change the environment. (But it is not like that ability to "see" the potential future would not have been possible, because it happened.)

See, the end of all things would came about without us ever seeing it, because we would not be able to calculate it. Because in knowing the calculation, and our knowledge being a "variable" in the "formula", that formula would then be changed.

So, basically, what did I come up with? The world is "calculating" something that we have no choice in changing. The outcome is "destiny" or "fate" which we completely have a part in, and at the same time cannot not do exactly what we do. But please, continue to think you have choice, although in the big picture, you really don't... you are just reacting... and this whole time you have been reacting to what I wrote here... and it will never go away (Mwa ha hahaha!!!).

And so the moral of this story?
Be careful what you listen to. It could effect the eternal destiny of the universe...

or not.