some slightly cryptic thoughts about time travel i'm not gonna elaborate on for now:
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time travel to the past is about memory and time travel to the future is about imagination. they're parallel because memory and imagination are the same process
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time traveling to the past to change it is about memory reconsolidation
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fixed-timeline time travel where you can't change the past is about acceptance, determinism, free will
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time traveling to the future is about whether your plans are good. do you marry well, are your descendants well provided for, etc.
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from : time loops where you go back repeatedly to try to change the outcome is about the stuckness of emotional memories
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from : time loops where the past and present are entangled (c.f. Holes) are about memory reconsolidation using metaphor (healing either individual or generational trauma)
(i have to admit i don't grok this one yet)
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from : "Many people, deep, deep down (or at multiple "levels") are seeking an elsewhere, an elsewhen. They’re trying to step outside the universe, break the universe, step through a portal, step to another side, into books, movies..."
meditationbook.page/#160
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just realized time travel / changing the past stories are about memory reconsolidation lol
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if you wanna know what "memory reconsolidation" means in excruciating and also fascinating detail this is the book for you. unlocking the emotional brain. probably the single most nerdsniping therapy book
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oh shit
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the multiverse and time loops displaced time travel as a genre bc we no longer agree on the past or believe in the future, just infinite minuscule variations on the present
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i've been chewing on this in the background for about 5 months now
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recently @meditationstuff said a thing like “sometimes parts of you can be confused about the point of fiction, and about the actual relationship between fiction and reality” and i’ve been thinking about it pretty much nonstop since then twitter.com/eigenrobot/sta…
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Do I need a prerequisite to understand this article? It seems to be gesturing at something I do feel, but it's difficult to understand the metaphors of twists and switchbacks, and phenomenology, etc.
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