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>Surely my conscious mind cannot exist in two different eras simultaneously. mentally I think of it more like save/restore states. the future-person meeting t
by serf 2y ago
>Surely my conscious mind cannot exist in two different eras simultaneously.
mentally I think of it more like save/restore states.
the future-person meeting the past person would just be past person+future person as a merged state, the past person would just be a working snapshot of everything before it without the accrued knowledge of future-person.
if you're someone who believe in an untouchable intangible non-duplicable 'soul', then it breaks the framework. I see myself more as a collection of experiences, so it jibes well into that concept.
- kitd 2y agoA more interesting idea is whether "you" cease to exist in the present while "you" travel back in time to meet "you" in the past. Ie, If time travel is possible, are there "yous" spread across every moment of your existence? That asks questions of our idea of timeless self-identity or "soul" if you like. Like Trigger's Broom [1], are we the same person as we were yesterday? [1] https://youtu.be/LAh8HryVaeY?si=5_URpP6si31KWIWD https://youtu.be/LAh8HryVaeY?si=5_URpP6si31KWIWD