| The big bang inside of us all
Around the time of Spinoza, Newton and Leibniz the emerging world view was that of a clock work universe. The idea was that the initial conditions were set at the beginning of time and then everything proceeded from that point according to set rules that could be determined by science. Since, we are part of this clockwork universe Spinoza argued that all of our actions are determined by preceding causes. Free will was just an illusion and the only freedom was that of God's when he set the starting conditions.
It has now been proven mathematically that at a quantum level the behaviour of sub-atomic particles is acausal. That means that it is fundamentally impossible to predict their behaviour. Their behaviour is essentially new information. Stephen Hawkings has said that this new information can be regarded as initial conditions of the universe.
The Newtonian clockwork view point of the universe assumed that time was at a right angle to the starting conditions. This lead to the view that as time proceeded the influence of the initial conditions decreased and the influence of the laws of physics increased. This lead to physicists looking to explain the current state of the universe solely in terms of the laws of physics whilst disregarding the initial conditions as non-consequential. This bias has reached such a level that some physicists seek to make the initial conditions dependent upon the laws themselves. This is a contradiction in terms since initial conditions are by definition dependent upon nothing.
In the new quantum view of the world, where the initial conditions are present at all times in all places, time is not at a right-angle to the initial conditions but an angle. The influence of the initial-conditions is maintained and can never be discounted.
It is debatable as to whether our minds are influenced by the behaviour of sub-atomic particles but I believe that they are. Steven Hameroff and Roger Penrose offer a compelling theory as to the mechanism through which quantum fluctuations are amplified by the structure of neurons.
What this would essentially mean is that there are parts of ourselves and our behaviour that are not determined by preceding events and that is fundamentally free. That these parts are initial conditions of the universe and so we are always directly connected with the creative act of the universe. So therfore, in a sense, there is a big bang inside of us all. | 
