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Well, physics controls our mind. All particles and energies (including brain cells, nerve impulses, etc) behave in predictable ways. We don't understand the sub-particles, so we have chaos theory, to explain it. But the sub-particles are made of smaller parts, and if you continue to shrink the particles down they become predictable, and chaos becomes order. Or perhaps it is the other way around, and at the smallest level there is absolute chaos, and when you increase the order, the chaos tends to generalize into a predictable pattern, so that chaos becomes order. But either way you look at it, we have absolutely no control over ourselves because we are made of particles which are just moving around in some manner. So, the entire future is already set in stone, except that stone is just made of particles too, and is moving about the same way we are.
Perhaps we all exist in separate dimensions, where the fate of each dimension is already molded, as by my bizarre particle theory, yet the dimension of each person that we know is predestined so closely that we have each other in our dimensions. Although this would not really be that person, it is basically a carbon-based copy of them. In our own dimensions, everything goes as we perceive it, and perhaps to some extent the way we will it to be. Our perception, although limited by what we perceive as time, does not stretch past the time we were "born" (Perhaps this marks the beginning of a dimension, by a slight difference from another dimension. Perhaps other dimensions exist, exactly the same, where "she's" are "he's" and vice versa, but all else is exactly the same). Our point of perception, moving forward through time, will go on infinitely, so that each is immortal in his own dimension. Our "soul" is not within us, but is the dimension itself. Some dimension exists where George Washington is still alive, another where Louis XII of France is still ruling, another where Caesar still controls Rome. So, we shall live forever in our own dimension.
What if time moved backwards, so we could tell what was coming ahead (what we call the past) perfectly, but what had happened (the future) was unclear? This of course would not change our point of view a bit, but would totally negate an incredibly huge number of ideas. But then, the results of many decisions can be altered after you make them. The past is unchangeable (except by historians), but the future is unwritten. Although the fact that you made a certain decision can not be changed, the outcome of that decision and many other events is entirely undecided.
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