There is only one point in time, and everything is always there.
The basis for this is physics, but it impacts philosophy, religion, and everyday life, including our understanding of free will.
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Holism vs Reductionism
Reductionism reduces everything to its parts. You know how the parts behave, then put them together, and thus you know how the whole thing behaves.
This could be for our knowledge in principle, for our knowledge in practice, and for how the universe does it (except the universe doesn’t, we just think it does).
Reductionism has been exceptionally successful in the last thousand years or so, first with the Arabs and then with the Europeans and their descendants.
Very Universe 