The Adjacent Possible

See the present as it could be. Make one possible Now more probable by constricting contingency. An imagined (i.e. dreamed) reality is real in the mind just as present experience is real in the mind. These neurocorrelates of mental life are real and measurable. The Dream Now, a mental model of the past, present and future, becomes the Now (the specious present) with the collapse the wave function manifested by the plausibility of the Dream and the plausibility of the Now 'presented' to fermions and bosons at Time=0.

Not on the Shelf at Walmart

There are two cases; in the first the acquaintance does not have a boxed set of the audio book "The Autobiography of Mark Twain" and in the second the acquaintance does have a boxed set of the audio book "The Autobiography of Mark Twain". In these adjacent possible worlds which differ by this small perturbation and nothing more, the plausibility of the acquaintance hearing the audio-book is good or positive in one it is much much less plausible in the other. Without the intervention of Amazon.com, the different outcomes in the adjacent possible worlds are not certain but merely possible in the one and impossible in the other.

In one possible world a Nikon 35mm negative scanner sits in the closet near the many file drawers filled with 35mm negatives of the Holdens and the Garzas. In an adjacent possible world the scanner is gone. The plausibility of getting digitized images is higher in the world with the scanner present than in the adjacent world with no scanner.