I was on the 281 bus to Kingston the other day. I didn’t have my headphones in which was unusual for me. I over heard a conversation with this girl talking to I think her boyfriend. She started off saying stuff like is there anything you have never told anyone before. The boy replied with something like “like what I have done or what?” or something. Well the girl started to say something she had never told anyone before (wrong place on a bus full of people…). She said “It is as if my life is nothing but an illusion created in the last few seconds before I am about to die and that all my memory is from my life”. What she said was very powerful! This theory is not new, I have heard and a friend of my mine has heard something comparable to it. The idea is in my opinion the memory we have in the present is an illusion. The memory we have in the past is real. There for the current events are not really happening only being created to change the reality of where we are. The fact that tomorrow I will remember writing this does not mean this theory is not true only that this is a larger present, or the memory of me writing this really happened.
To understand this theory we should brake up what memory is. Memory has short term and long term memory. Short term is reading this, and long term is what you did last night or weeks ago. For this theory what is in short term is an illusion and what is in long term memory is of real life. This means the current actions such as reading this and writing this for me, is an illusion and somewhere I and you are dying. This does also open up another theory such as this is the real life leading up to when we will die and when we die the moments before we will create an illusion. There is a theory that the whole of your life flashes before your eyes before you die. Both theories could be the same. The theory of your whole life flashing before your eyes means you would see everything as it was happening. There is nothing to say you couldn’t see this moment and think it is the present and the illusion is the thinking it is the present. This would mean that the memory of dying and the memory of future events are withheld. This would also explain how time flows so fast some times and slow other times. We are not living we are only remembering. This now has left the idea of the present being an illusion and a new idea that the present is the past. I said both these theories can be compactable and they can. The theory that both are the same is simple. The illusion is of the free will we feel we have. The ability that you feel you can stop reading any moment. This freewill feeling is the illusion. You can stop reading but tomorrow you will remember reading it and forget stopping of reading it. This is because the actions you do outside of the actions that have been set are forgotten and are just part of the illusion. It would be like having a memory deleted from your mind and a false one implemented into your mind. You wouldn’t know the difference.
These are only some of the problems to this/these theory/theories and tomorrow you will know the biggest problem. By that I mean you will remember reading this won’t you? That is of course unless you were meant to read it?
To understand this theory we should brake up what memory is. Memory has short term and long term memory. Short term is reading this, and long term is what you did last night or weeks ago. For this theory what is in short term is an illusion and what is in long term memory is of real life. This means the current actions such as reading this and writing this for me, is an illusion and somewhere I and you are dying. This does also open up another theory such as this is the real life leading up to when we will die and when we die the moments before we will create an illusion. There is a theory that the whole of your life flashes before your eyes before you die. Both theories could be the same. The theory of your whole life flashing before your eyes means you would see everything as it was happening. There is nothing to say you couldn’t see this moment and think it is the present and the illusion is the thinking it is the present. This would mean that the memory of dying and the memory of future events are withheld. This would also explain how time flows so fast some times and slow other times. We are not living we are only remembering. This now has left the idea of the present being an illusion and a new idea that the present is the past. I said both these theories can be compactable and they can. The theory that both are the same is simple. The illusion is of the free will we feel we have. The ability that you feel you can stop reading any moment. This freewill feeling is the illusion. You can stop reading but tomorrow you will remember reading it and forget stopping of reading it. This is because the actions you do outside of the actions that have been set are forgotten and are just part of the illusion. It would be like having a memory deleted from your mind and a false one implemented into your mind. You wouldn’t know the difference.
These are only some of the problems to this/these theory/theories and tomorrow you will know the biggest problem. By that I mean you will remember reading this won’t you? That is of course unless you were meant to read it?
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