The universe is in superposition. The collapse of its wave function is what we call consciousness.

The many worlds theory says that all possible outcomes exist, and that the wave function is continuously collapsing, causing branches.

What if the universe is in superposition of every possible state? It collapses at random, and a universe is born out of nothing. The collapse isn’t a new big bang. The collapse is consciousness. Birth. An observer who is contained to a relatively small portion of infinite spacetime. They witness a universe created just for them. They live life and eventually die and everything dissolves back into superposition.

Every new collapse isn’t a replay but a fresh instantiation of the universe with its own self‑consistent history and future. Each moment of awareness lands somewhere on that infinite landscape of possible histories, sometimes almost identical to another, sometimes radically different. From within any given collapse, everything feels continuous and real because that’s how that branch is structured.