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> you do not perceive the trillions of years that could pass in between two moments occurring, nor do you have any way to realize you are perceiving moments out
by TedDoesntTalk 4y ago
> you do not perceive the trillions of years that could pass in between two moments occurring, nor do you have any way to realize you are perceiving moments out of order or that other possibilities of realities exist
This is intriguing. But how does cause and effect work? If there is no “external state”, say I burn my hand by spilling hot coffee on it. There’s a burn in my skin. Trillions of years pass and I experience the next moment… with burned skin?
- xwdv 4y agoThe next moment is generated entirely by chance. A very small probability. Also it could have been generated even before you spilled your coffee but you wouldn’t know that as you only have your memories as a reference. It’s like creating a movie by just putting down random pixels and eventually you get an actual frame from the movie. Repeat until the movie has been seen entirely.
- wruza 4y agoThere is no cause and no effect, as far as I understand it. “You” spend most of the time in bizarre states and only once in a 10^^^^^^(…)^^^^^10 seconds chances can reconstruct the next, previous or just different step of a reasonable continuous experience, including all memories “you” “think” about in this moment. But in my opinion this is overengineered. States not only don’t have to come in order, they don’t have to form a continuous “movie” at all. An infinite amount of “current” moments with all the past and current reality already embedded in is sufficient.