That comment from Eris is an interesting one in real life terms. Like a star 1,000,000 years away emits a photon, and it takes 1,000,000 light years to travel and you look up at the sky and it hits your eye and comes into being.
For us, we had to be there, at that moment 1,000,000 years later for that photon to become into existence, but for the photon, the exact moment it was emitted from the star it instantly "knew" it would come into existence hitting your eye. It happened for it that moment 1,000,000 light years before, it *knew* that you'd be there, that moment, 1,000,000 light years later and it would hit your eye.
Its mind blowing the writers took that concept and put it into Eris' musings in the game. Like she's all, we don't know what's coming but it's already happened. This is our *Destiny*. Are our choices our choices, or do we make those choices *because* thats what has already happened even though we are living through them in real time.
I gotta listen to that podcast with Neil deGrasse Tyson more on that to see what he thinks is the answer... They posed it to him and he had to think on it since he was all like, damn, the science can say pre-ordained, but also like, all the variables make it seem like it shouldn't but the point of view of the person versus the point of view of the proton are vastly different.
I just listen to the teaser to that podcast the other day, combined with what you were saying with the Eris quote all fits to that, and its crazy!
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Nice, I’m going to listen to that
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Well, if intelligent life is out there, some day down the road, they may see our star the day you had explosive diarrhea...it's the little things in life. Who knows, maybe you'll be a different you that doesn't know this version of you, viewing the star on the day that you had explosive diarrhea...circle of life.