There is a distinction between relevance and apparent existence. Does a tree make a sound in the forest if it falls and there is no one to listen to it? Yes, it does, and yes it does not. It is all relative, and it has to do with relevance.
Let's take man as the point of reference and the sound as the relevant event that is being studied in regards to man. If there is no man to hear the tree fall, then it is as if it never fell, because for man it had no relevance. If, say, we took the damage to the ecosystem as the relevant event, than we could say that the tree falling had a relevant effect on man trying to save the ecosystem, and therefore the falling of the tree indeed happened, in relevance to the effects on man. Yet, if sound has no real impact on man (the observer) than the event of a tree falling and making sound in the absence of man has no real relevance to man and it is as if it never did any sound.
If we take this to a new level, what if the past exists because we can remember it? Let's take myself as an example. Ryan now has choices to make as he grows up. Take two choices as an example; a) I have to go abroad in a week, b) I do not go abroad next week. If I go abroad, I die in an airplane accident. If I don't go abroad, I stay alive. This means that my future holds two possibilities. Either I die in a week or I don't. In the former case, my future self seizes to exist in one week. In the latter, my future self continues to exist until an indefinite time in the future when it dies.
Right before I die in choice A, my future self in timeline A remembers my present self. By doing so, choice A is a relevant pathway into the future. By observing myself in a week, my future self in timeline B also remembers my present self, and by so doing so choice B becomes a relevant pathway.
However, pathway B also creates an indefinite amount of alternate pathways to my death. Each of those pathways, which are a consequence of choice B also remember my present self, and by so doing they positively reinforce choice B.
At every choice, the chance of picking either A or B is still 50%. However, the relevance of the future Ryan in all pathways leading from choice B is larger than the single pathway (to death) leading from choice A. This means that choice B has more relevance to the present than choice A.
My apparent existence tells me that for every point in time where I have a choice between two choices, I always pick one or the other randomly equally (assuming that the event leading from the choice has no relevance on your choice). If both choices, A and B were equally relevant to me then I would pick either one at 50% chance. What if, however, this is not so? What if our present is created by our future? If choice B results in a higher number of future pathways then wouldn't choice B be picked more often in the present? For this to happen there must be one of two possible scenarios; either the future is creating the past, or the future is transferring information to the past, affecting it.
Either one of these scenarios seems implausible in our current understanding. Our vision of reality tells us that we are moving towards the future by creating events and picking choices in the present leaving behind an untouchable immutable past. However, what would happen if we were to learn that the present self has further power on the past than on our future?
What if by remembering the past, we are keeping that past-self alive? What if all the future Ryan's resulting from choice B are remembering Ryan choosing choice B, then doesn't that put more relevance on Ryan choosing choice B? Ryan choosing choice B thus has more relevance to the present than choice A because the future Ryan is giving it relevance.
I could, therefore, be moving backwards into the future. By remembering the past I give relevance to it. And those choices in the present that lead to larger amount of branching pathways in the future are not the result of a deliberate choice in the present but a consequence of their relevance to the future. The future is thus creating the present.
