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I have no idea what we're talking about so I'm just going to blowing it out my ... brain.Are you saying that the universe is one complete space-time loaf where everything that has been, is and will be has already been writ? That time is just a matter of where you slice into the loaf and its passage just a function of awareness in successive slicings? A completely deterministic universe without uncertainty and probability? No arrow of time? No entropy?No, in my totally inconsequential opinion your awareness has not alway existed. I will grant you that the probability-space where your awareness could be expressed has always existed (not the awareness itself just the probability), just as the probability-space containing humans or Earth has always existed. In a probabilistic universe, however, these spaces (humans, your awareness, Earth) are not required to be expressed.Given the uncertainties and the vastness of the probability-spaces available to be expressed we are fortunate that these spaces were the ones that were expressed. If they hadn't been then some set of green-eyed frog-fish-mouse thingie on a different planet might be having this discussion in place of us.I have always been a die hard reductionist. In my view your awareness is a function of your consciousness, and your consciousness is a function of the biochemistry of your brain.In this universe, the probability-space for planet Earth got expressed. The probability-space for "human" got expressed. The probability-space for your specific body got expressed and the probability-space for "cavediver" as an aware consciousness (the unique biochemical result) got expressed.If your fetal development had been different some other awareness in the probability-space associated with your body could have been expressed instead of "cavediver." If some other sperm had fertilized that ova then some other body from the probability-space would have been expressed along with some other awareness from the probability-space associated with the biochemistry of that different body.And, yes, even though these spaces have been expressed in some area of space-time there is also a slice in the space-time loaf where the probability-space for "cavediver", the probability-space for your body, the probability-space for human and the probability-space for Earth, no longer exist.As for what it implies ... does it have to imply anything?It just is.Maybe.Edited by AZPaul3, : Almost forgot a "nice" subtitle.