Thanks David Christian: An Idea about Human Potentiality

  At the moment just before the Big Bang, there was nothing, not even time. Just after the moment that our universe came into being, everything in the universe existed. Everything that ever was, or ever will become, will have arisen out of that fraction of a second when time and everything else began. The building blocks of the entire universe have existed, none new have come into being; they have only ever been recycled and reused. 

  What if human potentiality is like the Big Bang? What if everything that is possible with us is present at our conception? A million million possibilities and configurations present in our presence? Whatever happens in the ensuing years are realities simply concretizing themselves, the basic elements fluctuating from state to state as the right situations are created. 

Sean Carroll discusses the origins of the universe and the possibility of multiverses. You can check out his talk, which is the last video in this TED Talk playlist . 

And David Christian talk about his Big History Project at another TED Talk, wherein he describes the Big Bang, which is what got my train of thought going.