Hang on, let me light up some powerful psychotropics. I'll get back to you in a while with an answer.


... Back with my answer. The material universe has an inside-out twin, the immaterial. In the material universe we live as tiny islands in a void - pockets of being in an empty space. In the immaterial realm it is the inverse, a single great body of life with pockets of nonbeing, white/black hole portals into the material realm. Transitions are possible between these, but each transition is a death, a loss of self from one realm into the other. Awareness persists, but the self changes.

...Is... Is that... Wait, what did you ask? Hang on. What?

free will or predestination?