Crackhappy@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-219 days ago(This is a really stupid question) How do you know that you are not stuck in a time loop unable to wake up?message-squaremessage-square56linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-square(This is a really stupid question) How do you know that you are not stuck in a time loop unable to wake up?Crackhappy@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-219 days agomessage-square56linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareendless_nameless@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·20 days agoI think this obviously implies that your brain is getting reset each loop, in which case you wouldn’t be aware of anything repeating.
minus-squarefizzle@quokk.aulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·20 days agoBut if your brain is getting reset, then really your reality is, so its not so much of a loop as infinite new realities.
minus-squaregandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up0·19 days agobut what if you’re actually a slave? forced to work each day anew, with no memory of the previous day. i wouldn’t call that “your infinite new realities” because those realities aren’t really yours, as they don’t provide you a place for you at all.
minus-squareBradleyUffner@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·20 days agoAre you implying I’m not the hero that realizes it and breaks us all out? How dare you!
minus-squareCapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·20 days agoBeing “The One” is like being in love. No one can tell you you’re in love, you just know it, balls to bones. This is where I say "Hmmm that’s interesting. That’s when you say…
minus-squareClanOfTheOcho@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·20 days agoWait, weren’t we talking about spoons?
minus-squareCapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·20 days agoSorry, I’m all out of heroine.
minus-squareremon@ani.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up0·20 days agoWell, then it’s just an unknowable not much different from the afterlife.
I think this obviously implies that your brain is getting reset each loop, in which case you wouldn’t be aware of anything repeating.
But if your brain is getting reset, then really your reality is, so its not so much of a loop as infinite new realities.
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but what if you’re actually a slave? forced to work each day anew, with no memory of the previous day. i wouldn’t call that “your infinite new realities” because those realities aren’t really yours, as they don’t provide you a place for you at all.
Are you implying I’m not the hero that realizes it and breaks us all out? How dare you!
Being “The One” is like being in love. No one can tell you you’re in love, you just know it, balls to bones.
This is where I say "Hmmm that’s interesting.
That’s when you say…
Wait, weren’t we talking about spoons?
Sorry, I’m all out of heroine.
Well, then it’s just an unknowable not much different from the afterlife.