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ver been demonstrated. There's no study that shows a chemical imbalance, but still that's the way it was being treated. Oh well, there's no evidence of a chemical imbalance, but how about some drugs to fix your chemical imbalance? But this new thing says that has something to do with how efficiently the brain blood flow and function is. I'm going to say again that it seems energy related. I belie…

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eople have low energy and they certainly do. But I feel like we think that the depression causes the low energy. I have a strong intuition that everybody who has high energy doesn't experience depression. Meaning that the energy level might be what causes the depression.

Oh my goodness, my cat is rubbing her little soft face against my bare arm. It's the best feeling in the world. Oh, keep doing that. All right, we'll take a look at you.

All right. And then according to all day astronomy, there's a baffling phenomenon in the quantum world called the delayed choice quantum eraser. And it's where the act of observing a particle can seemingly reach back in time to change what happened before the observation. Which means that the present creates the past at least at the quantum level. Now, as I often say, you could have just asked me because I've been saying for years that the present creates the past and it has to be true. Not because I did some experiments, it just has to be true. Here's why.

Not only do we have to be a simulation, you know, trillion to one odds because for every reality, there'll be lots of simulations. So we're almost certainly a simulation. So we start there. Now if you were going to code a simulation, would you make your program know every particle in the universe, everywhere in the universe, even though you knew that the people, the humans could never experience anywhere else in the universe because we can't get there. You know, maybe we get to Mars, but that's about it. But you wouldn't have to specify anything that we couldn't see. So you wouldn't have to have details of like the center of a planet unless we dug a hole otherwise don't need it. So the only way you could make a computer program that would have enough power to simulate our environment is if you did two things. One, you made the past only appear when it was needed. So you don't use all that processing. And two, you allow people to experience different realities without having to solve which one was true. So you and I can go do a thing and you'll have different memories than I do. We'll do some politics and you'll think something bad happened. I'll think something good happened. We don't have to resolve that. We can just say, "Well, you're wrong and I'm right." So we go through life with completely different ideas of what the reality was. And that only makes sense if we're a simulation. And the reason it's like that is to save resources. Otherwise, we would all kind of just see the same stuff and have the same opinion, right? So we have to have different opinions of what we're seeing so that the code doesn't have ever have to resolve it. You can just leave that disconnect. And that's what we get used to. There's always a disconnect. We always disagree about what we saw and what happened and what's going to happen next. And yeah, and you have to be able to change the past when you dig a hole. So my understanding of the universe is that in my backyard, wherever nobody's ever dug a hole, nobody with a consciousness has ever dug a hole, that it's not determined. But if I go out there with my shovel and I start digging, the hole will fill in ahead of me because that's the only time it needs to be there. Doesn't need to be there until I dig. So why would it be there? It wouldn't make any sense. So that's my view.

And my cat is on my notes. Oh my goodness. I thought that was Gary, but this is Roman. Oh, Roman.

All right, that's all I got today. Happy Monday. Did I go long? Oh my god, I went really long. Sorry about that.

All right, I'm going to say hi to my beloved subscribers and the rest of you. Thanks for joining everybody. I will see you tomorrow. Locals, stay tuned. We'll talk to you a little bit.