If you had a perfect memory...

[Lagatag]

and also you could see the future perfectly, then how would you be able to tell if you are remembering the past, looking into the future, or actually experiencing something in the present?

This is also why I said perfect, because you could literally become absorbed, every little detail feels like just when you experienced or will experience it.

[Tancrisism]

If you had a perfect memory and could see into the future perfectly, why would it suddenly become more difficult to differentiate between past, present, and future than it is now?

If you somehow lived conscious of the fifth dimension, then things would start getting fucked.

[Raab]

At 10/21/10 02:33 AM, Lagatag wrote: and also you could see the future perfectly, then how would you be able to tell if you are remembering the past, looking into the future, or actually experiencing something in the present?

This is also why I said perfect, because you could literally become absorbed, every little detail feels like just when you experienced or will experience it.

I assume chronologically the present would exist only as a 2 dimensional line dividing the past and future.

You would remember the future the same way as you remember the past.

I imagine it would be like watching a movie you have already seen before.... you know what's coming.

[Lintire]

Yeah, you'd probably get lost in the stream of time, and you probably wouldn't even complain, too, being lost in the better of the memories of life. Which is why forgetfulness and the inability to see the future were invented, for the benefit of all - back in days of old people used to just walk around in circles getting lost in their own memories.

[HazeStigma]

At 10/21/10 02:40 AM, XxRobJohnsonxX wrote: I imagine it would be like watching a movie you have already seen before.... you know what's coming.

That would suck and be nice at the same time.
You could wake up and say "Today i will fail my test!"
But also you could look at a muffin and go "Yaay this is going to be delicious"

[Platypus]

At 10/21/10 02:38 AM, MuyBurrito wrote: Pen is mightier than the sword.

A rolling stone gathers no moss