Here are my thoughts on the foundations of quantum mechanics, life, the universe and everything. They are shamelessly stolen from many sources without any guarantee that their original owners would authorize this representation of them.
I think that only detector clicks in the past are real. The future is a wave of possibilities, whose probabilities are determined by quantum mechanics. We and our consciousness reside on the boundary between the past (particles) and the future (a wave of potentiality). As the present moves relentlessly forward the “past” crystallizes out of it, randomly. There is now no measurement problem, no non-locality problem, no problem of interpretation. The probabilities are for real, the past is real, the wave function is objective and non-localized since computed from the whole past. Consciousness resides on the interface and is localizable. (cf. Belavkin; cf. Pirsig [Zen and the art of motor cycle maintenance]).
Why is Nature like that? Reality is discrete, finite. The only way to simultaneously have it invariant under continuous rotations, shifts is to make it random - probabilities can be invariant, continuous, ... This leaves us with QM as the only possibility. (cf. Helland)
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Interestingly enough we westerners are one of the few societies that imagine the future as being in front of them, something they are moving towards. Most pre-industrial societies imagine the past as lying in front of them, as that is what they are seeing - for them, as you say, the past is cristallizing out of their present. If they talk about the future, they make a backwards gesture - it is something unseeable... random... Quite in line with the QM worldview, actually!
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Hippalus
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