On the subject part III: what is the subject’s end?

This article inquires into the end of the emergence of the subject from the objective world. Ultimately, there are two possibilities, one of which satisfies the fundamental law of logic that out of nothing, nothing comes, while the other satisfies the fundamental law of physics that entropy must always increase until it reaches its maximum in equilibrium. The first possibility is explained by a theory that was put forward independently by philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte and physicist John Archibald Wheeler. In this picture, a final endpoint of emergence posits the first creation of causation. The second picture is displayed by connecting Hugh Everett’s “many worlds” interpretation of quantum decoherence to the law of increasing entropy. This article extracts the science-philosophical conclusion that it is impossible to decide between the two as either one seems compulsory depending on whether one starts from the subject’s law to emerge or from the object’s law to dissipate structure. However, abstract philosophical speculation about the end of time and emergence is defended as fully legitimate. Though neither side is falsifiable and there are no conclusions to be drawn practically, it is not “bullshit” since it is based on thorough philosophical reasoning and takes into account all that we know about the place we inhabit scientifically.