Do We Have a Choice If All Time Already Exists?

A Reflection Within Similarity Theory
By Simon Raphael

In Similarity Theory, time is not a flowing river but a gallery of eternal picture frames — moments fixed in place across the structure of existence. Every frame already is. Yet we, the observers, move through them. It is our consciousness that animates the illusion of motion, like a projector casting images onto the screen of reality.

At first glance, this would seem to imply that everything is predetermined — that all is already written. But this is where Similarity Theory diverges from fatalism.

Yes, the frames exist.
But the path through them does not.

The self — the conscious soul — is not bound to a single track. Like grooves on a cosmic record, there are many similar frame-streams, each offering subtle variations. To the unaware, life seems fixed. But to the awakened, choice is real — not because we change the frames, but because we select which strand of experience we walk.

And more than that:

With every conscious choice, we add new frames.

The universe is not just pre-built — it is expanding through us. Each moment of awareness is a creative act, a divergence, a seeding of further reality. This is not confined to one universe, but extends outward into a branching, ever-multiplying network of universes — layers upon layers of becoming.

Thus, free will is not the power to control events within a frame, but the power to shift between paths — and to generate new ones. That is how we shape the cosmos.

We are not observers of a dead world.
We are its architects in motion.