How does the world come to be just what it is, and not something else? Classical physics offers only a partial answer. It says that the deterministic laws of nature fix everything over all of spacetime in terms of things at a single instant of time. But the remaining question is then: What fixes things at this single instant of time? What determines the initial conditions?
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Stapp, H.P. (2009). Choice and Meaning in the Quantum Universe. In: Stapp, H.P. (eds) Mind, Matter and Quantum Mechanics. The Frontiers Collection. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-89654-8_7
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