Blåhaj PieFed(This is a really stupid question) How do you know that you are not stuck in a time loop unable to wake up?
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Because things aren’t repeating?
I think this obviously implies that your brain is getting reset each loop, in which case you wouldn’t be aware of anything repeating.
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.
Do you have some hero?
But if your brain is getting reset, then really your reality is, so its not so much of a loop as infinite new realities.
Woke
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.
I don’t understand this part:
My point is, if I go to sleep tonight and time loops back around to this morning, and I don’t remember any of today, then did today really happen? It didn’t “happen” in any meaningful way.
It doesn’t matter whether I entertained a dozen nubile virgins or toiled as a slave.
Well, then it’s just an unknowable not much different from the afterlife.
Obviously the reset isn’t quite sticking, otherwise why so much deja vu?
Unless you’re in a very long loop. You just haven’t gotten to the loop point yet.
Yeah, but that basically means your entire life is the loop, making this just another silly idea about the afterlife. Though, not as silly as some of religious ones.
Unless it’s not your entire life and you’re in your first forty-year loop. You hit 60, wake up and you’re 20 again
When I’m high i think my like it game and I’ll wake up to find that I’m 12. I make my husband promise to do everything exactly the same, even the stupid stuff, so we end up together. Ridiculous, but makes total sense to weed brain.
Phil? Phil Connors.
What if the repeat starts right after the point where you die?
Then you wouldn’t have any memory but you would be stuck in the loop.
It could be a long loop once you pass away the next loop starts
I don’t, but spending time in my time loop worrying about whether or not I’m in a time loop seems like a waste of time
Well, it did last time anyway.
If I’m in a time loop, I’m not aware of it so it doesn’t matter and I’m fine with it.
Was that a !tenforward@lemmy.world, or a !risa@startrek.website trend?
Edit: It was on tenforward, and about a year ago. Nearly time to do it again!
No idea! Maybe both.
Because it’s always a fresh hell I deal with, none of that stale hell you get from time loops
Maybe I am and it’s what religions call rebirth or life after death and in that case I couldn’t care less, but I do have memories of yesterday and the days before that, so I’m kinda pretty sure there’s nothing loopy going on here.
This hypothetical affects nothing about my life so I’m with the 🤷♀️ gang.
After careful consideration I have come to the following conclusion on this issue:
🤷🏻
How do you know we’re not in a time loop so long you can live entire lifetimes inside of it?
You literally just asked me this yesterday. And the day before. And the day before. And you never seem to remember it. And the day before… Oh no!
I mean in scifi someone in a time loop remembers the period and thus knows they are in one. If you don’t know you are not in one or at least not in one of your own.
This logical disconnect is even worse than the time loop concept. There’s no logic for someone remembering from a previous loop and even less logic for some people remembering and some not
Eh, not worried about it. It is what it is.
Philosophers have reasoned that if the universe is infinite, as it appears to some that it might be, then every permutation of all possible configurations of matter and energy will occur infinitely many times. Therefore, everything that happens now will have happened before, and will happen again.
I don’t see how any utopia could make up for the universes where people are literally tortured their entire lives. Such a multiverse must not be allowed to exist.
In the good old days of Usenet you could’ve found like-minded people on alt.destroy.the.multiverse.
The last 25000 times nothing happened, so I’m pretty sure nothing will happen tonight.
So the loop would “start” and “end” with my birth and death, right?
Wouldn’t be so bad.
Well, every days ground hog day.
Well, if I am than there isn’t anything I can do about it, is there?
You don’t know.
This is a thought-terminating exercise, so there’s nothing else to say.
To be perfectly fair, saying “there’s nothing else to say” is a way stronger example of a thought terminating exercise. Yet here we both are.
No, it’s literally just the answer to the (pointless) question.
I have a twist for you – how do you know that time isn’t running backwards?
Because shit comes out of my ass and there’s no way in hell I’d let it go inside of me
That’s the thing. Your memory only works one way. You’re incapable of perceiving time running in the opposite direction.
Every time you’ve pooped both in the past and the future*, it’s both going in and coming out, entirely dependent on the frame of reference.
*Yes, I did just refer to the future in the past tense. Because if time’s running backwards to how we perceive it, that’s actually the past.
The only way to win this game is not to poop. And good luck with that.
I’ve come further than most men in this regard. And the fact that I’m around to tell the tale also means I’m capable of incredible feats of poop. That duality which defines the universe is visible in all things
I can’t imagine I’m the first to ever say this: Those who say they do not poop are full of it.
I’m sure that you would pick up small almost invisible clues that you should please wake up, we miss you.
I was thinking of posting a picture of a hidden heart but the only ones I have are of my family being cute. So instead I offer you a small clue that you should please wake up. ;)
If this is what I think it is, that episode still makes me think about the nature of reality whenever I think about it, which is a lot more often than it should for a show that old.
Don’t know what you could bee referring to, honey.
Episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer where she’s in and out of a coma between the normal world and the world with vampires.
I was thinking more like the episode of Futurama where Leela overdoses on space bee honey, but that’s OK.
I don’t and it doesn’t matter. Now is all there is anyway.
I mean how do you know if your memories are even real and you didn’t just get Men-In-Black flashed with the Neurolyzer thingy and that’s why you are a paycheck-to-paycheck wage slave instead of being a multibillionaire CEO like you used to be until you got couped?
Or how do you know your parents are your real parents and you didn’t just get lost/kidnapped as a child? (especially before dna tests)
I’m actually pretty confident I’m in a time loop at this point
I don’t.
Until I start remembering previous loops I won’t care.
As long as I don’t know, I don’t care.
u don’t! i just saw this video the other day, time itself might not be real anyway:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGbZsE7qFgw
all u know is u experience stuff and then u think they are in a continuum when u could be in an infinite loop of no time
I don’t need a time loop to suck
That’s me some mornings. I wake up, do my morning routine - SYKE! It was a dream and I’m still asleep. Repeat like 5 infuriating times.
If that was my whole life right now, I’m at least glad I’m not aware of it. That would be hell.
The government sure has been quiet since this dropped
Because if I was then it wouldn’t really make a difference what I’m supposed to do about it. Really says more about whatever entity decided to spend its time torturing THIS cringefest
The second law of thermodynamics.
What do you mean “time loop”? i know i was born around 2000, now it’s 2026 => at least 26 years have passed.