:: Infinite Regression ::

:: here is a painting of a landscape. now the artist who painted that picture says something is missing, what is it? "it is i myself who was part of the landscape i painted." so he mentally takes a step backwards, or regresses, and paints a picture of the artist painting a picture of the landscape. but still something is missing. that something is still his real self painting the second picture. so he regresses further, and paints a third. a picture, of the artist painting a picture, of the artist painting a picture of the landscape. and because something is still missing, he paints a fourth and a fifth, until he paints a picture of the artist painting a picture, of the artist painting a picture, of the artist painting a picture of the artist painting a landscape. it is the moment that our artist has regressed to point of infinite and himself becomes part of the landscape he painted; he is both the observer and the observed. ::

:: well now in that peculiar condition, what would he be observing, if he were observing, let's say, time? ::

:: he would perceive that time is like a freeway with an infinite number of lanes... all leading from the past to the future, however not into the same future. a driver in lane 'a' may crash while a driver in lane 'b' survives. it follows that a driver, by changing lanes, can change the future. ::

:: time can only be fully understood by an observer with a god-like gift of infinite regression. ::