On 1/26/2014 2:14 PM, LizR wrote:
Watching "Memento" gives some idea of what's really going on, by showing what life would be like after a partial breakdown of how the brain fools us into thinking we have continuous existence. It isn't too much of a stretch from imagining living in 5 minute segments to realising that we could equally well live in instants, with all of our memory being what's there right now, what's available to us in that instant, that pgeonhole. After all, logically, given the assumption of locality in physics, that's all we'd /expect/ to be available.
There's a play "Random" by a local playwright, Michael Perlmutter, in which a psychiatrist is treating a man who claims that he doesn't live his life in order. He remembers segments of his childhood, but also some segments of the future and with gaps in between. Of course each segment has a consistent arrow of time within it.
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