On 28 January 2014 09:42, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > 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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