Subject: Free will?
One problem with the deterministic arrow of big-banging time is its abnegation of free will. In order for free will to have any meaning whatsoever it must influence present experience — aka causation. Clearly the notion of free will is a near-unanimously accepted human construct. In this respect the common view is anthropic, as might well be expected.

The whole business is ever complexifying relations among ubiquitously emergent experience of boundless events perceived as existence.

This leads me to believe that evolving existence must include feedback between emergent experience and infinite potential. That would be necessary for protons, and the complexities composed of them, to persist for billions of years. What's most fascinating to me is that their component quarks flicker in no time, a likely prerequisite to negotiating infinite possibilities on behalf of still-minuscule client protons and neutrons.

One might propose that existence is a collaborative process in which every eventuality influences whatever happens next.

In other words, our choices and resultant actions must influence outcomes in order for our lives to bear any meaning. Almost no one disputes that, as everyday experience convincingly confirms it. You can bend your finger as you will. Without such free agency, life and being would bear no meaning, and any sense of responsibility would be fantasy.

Yet the determinism of one-way big-banging evolution — contemporary universality emergent within original singularity — fails to account for this seemingly manifest intentional causation.

Any notion of causality projects an arrow of time — causal events happening before caused outcomes. The anthropic issue is whether cognition, or intent, can alter the present flow from recollected past to anticipated future, prompting the question: Does existence include feedback?

I'd suggest that the universe of collective experience, however it may be defined, reflects organically evolving perception, comprised of sensation, recollection, cognition, anticipation, expression, remembrance. All-encompassing experiential remembrance at the service of situationally induced recollection serve as the polarities of the human feedback loop.

This complex entanglement guarantees vulnerability to anthropic bias with respect to anything thought, spoken, written, or read from a human perspective. After all is said and done, human experience of universally evolving events is what we have to work with. Dismissing human experience leaves no possibility of understanding, much less credible theorizing.