And not only "recall" such things, but have to account for them at Judgment — the "them" including all the roads not taken.
I find Everett's multiworld cosmology highly interesting. But the fact of the matter is, I do not see how such musings can serve as the basis, or foundation, of a moral code.
Everett's theory, extrapolated to moral theory, seems to require that, not only do we have to account for the decisions/acts we have actually made, but we are asked to account for all the decisions we did NOT make.
But that would be to make every single human person responsible, not just for his own acts, but of EVERYTHING that transpires in the Universe — that is, it makes the individual human person personally responsible for all "the roads NOT taken."
This makes no sense to me. What am I missing???
As for Schrödinger's Cat problem. The problem is more apparent than real, or so it seems to me. For there is no way that a cat can be simultaneously "alive" and "dead" — in a single moment. Wait till the next moment, and take another reading....
But then, I am probably too "simple-minded" for my own good.... I also happen to set great store in simple common sense.
Thank you ever so much, dearest sister in Christ, for sharing your penetrating reflections on this matter!
Like nonlocality, the cat is a "spooky" observation in quantum mechanics.
Thank you so very much for all your insights, dearest sister in Christ!
Actually, that is my view. And that would be the part of judgement that will be most uncomfortable.
Not accounting for your sins, which are forgiven, but being shown the many times God put me or you into a situation for a reason, crossing paths with someone for a reason, and I being too caught up in my own drama, fail to see what my role ought to have been. And the consequences in the lives of the people around me because I didn't see it.
"All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God..."
The sin part is covered. Its the falling short part that is going to be painful to see when and if it is shown to us.
Just you being you, with God leading you, you will no doubt have many situations where you were there to be a stabilizing influence, to say a kind word, to bail someone out of a jam, to lead from the front or influence from behind the scenes, because you were the only one of God's chess pieces available. And probably you did, without realizing it, what was required of you. But the times you didn't, the times you thought it was about you when it was about someone else near you, will be painful to see.
I might be wrong. But that is how I think.
Schrödinger's Cat is a useful intellectual exercise . . . nothing more. (Oh . . . and a funny moment in an early Big Bang Theory episode)