Possibly, if we followed the empiricist method, considering the parts rather than the whole, and imagining ourselves inside of them perceptually, the subject might defy us less provokingly. We are thus brought back to the problem with which Chapter VII left off. Dramatically, James shows deep quantum intuition here. Time keeps budding into new moments, every one of which presents a content which in its individuality never was before and will never be again. No, what has been will not, cannot, be again.
Time moves on with an unfaltering tread, and never strikes twice an identical hour.
Here, depending on your interpretation of his words, James hints at n-furcating time. We hear him describing SOM's One Global Time, i.e., classical analytical, homogeneous time. Now we know that quantum reality's time may not be homogeneous. Again, now we know that 'reversibility' depends upon quantum context. More generally, it may appear theoretically possible, but it is not clear how an entire quantum multiverse might 'reverse' as a whole, either partial reversal or full BECesque reversal.