The many-worlds/many-histories decoherence interpretation was itself already close to mechanical determinism.
The Celestial Favored Clan, capable of choosing histories, loathed this notion more than anyone.
Yet this was a matter of worldview. Or rather, an aesthetic inclination.
Finite foreknowledge could not survey every "possibly existing history," so from time to time, events beyond the prediction and control of those with finite foreknowledge would arise.
To those with finite foreknowledge, apart from the history they were "subjectively experiencing at this very moment," every other history could be treated as "nonexistent."
And the power of finite foreknowledge was to read those finite "nonexistent histories," then turn them into "existence" through choice and concrete action.
For the overwhelming majority of the Celestial Favored Clan, this was the view of space and time at the realm of finite foreknowledge.
It was no physical model, merely an intuitive feeling born of experience.
Many practitioners of finite foreknowledge described the process to others in precisely this way.
Wang Qi rubbed his face.
He suddenly realized something.
At its core, this universe seemed rather... "anti-intellectual"?
No, that was not quite right either.
Or rather, throughout this universe's history, "wisdom" and "reason" had simply not played such important roles.
At the true pinnacle of this universe, there was no need for anything called a "thought process." Through causal loops that included "closed timelike curves," they could directly obtain the "result." That "result" would then become a "cause" in the future, be sent back into the past, recovered, and complete a cycle.
In that process, the brain was not all that important.
And beneath that level, spiritual energy allowed black boxes to grow unimaginably vast.
One did not need to understand the essence of things particularly well to reach higher levels.
Only two factors limited their growth.
Their knowledge,