"In a way the universe is like a living thing."

"I don't think we're going to solve a complex scientific and philosophical question like this in a mythicalcreaturesguide thread.
But we can give it our best shot.

I think the idea is that there are a seemingly infinite number of possibilities for each of us depending on small changes in our choices, but only one "real" occurence. While other realities play out in parallel deminsions, with other realities branching off of them, and off of those branches, etc., we ourselves only experience on "reality" that we are aware of. However, the choices shift our reality in a way, so it's all very fluid, and different realities have different small changes in different aspects and lives. The course runs fluid, shifting, allowing an infinite sampling of existenses and a subconcious play-out of different ones based on our many choices and those of others, but in the end, our choices in the reality we understand have a ripple effect, and the reality we experience is the one that gets us where we're going in the end, when it all aligns to determine our ultimate fate.

Anyway, that's just me thinking aloud."