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QC@QiaochuYuan• over 3 years ago

some slightly cryptic thoughts about time travel i'm not gonna elaborate on for now:

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QC@QiaochuYuan• over 3 years ago

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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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QC@QiaochuYuan• over 3 years ago

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time traveling to the past to change it is about memory reconsolidation

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QC@QiaochuYuan• over 3 years ago

Replying to @QiaochuYuan

fixed-timeline time travel where you can't change the past is about acceptance, determinism, free will

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QC@QiaochuYuan• over 3 years ago

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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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QC@QiaochuYuan• over 3 years ago

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from @captain_mrs: time loops where you go back repeatedly to try to change the outcome is about the stuckness of emotional memories

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QC@QiaochuYuan• over 3 years ago

Replying to @QiaochuYuan

from @captain_mrs: 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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QC@QiaochuYuan• over 3 years ago

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from @meditationstuff: "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..." https://t.co/yb7UZxiKAC https://t.co/XXZyuONMvP

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QC@QiaochuYuan• over 3 years ago

Replying to @QiaochuYuan

lol jinx https://t.co/WQDyVkupXD

brainlet@magicianbrain• about 4 years ago

just realized time travel / changing the past stories are about memory reconsolidation lol

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QC@QiaochuYuan• over 3 years ago

Replying to @QiaochuYuan

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 https://t.co/T4fyUCMDqz

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QC@QiaochuYuan• over 3 years ago

Replying to @QiaochuYuan

"every science fiction story about the future is about the present" https://t.co/01VYvIwt7r

qntm@qntm• over 3 years ago

Every science fiction story about the future is about the present. Futurama's future is about a present which is just gone now, it might as well be The Jetsons

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QC@QiaochuYuan• over 3 years ago

Replying to @QiaochuYuan

oh shit https://t.co/rSjxeDwtyn

Tony Tulathimutte@tonytula• over 3 years ago

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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Malcolm Ocean 🏴‍☠️@Malcolm_Ocean• over 3 years ago

Replying to @QiaochuYuan

@QiaochuYuan https://t.co/GPbV628T5k

Malcolm Ocean 🏴‍☠️@Malcolm_Ocean• about 4 years ago

@magicianbrain yeah lol I had a therapy session just after playing a bunch of 5D chess and it gave me really trippy imagery of myself going into the past, creating a new parallel timeline, and so on

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QC@QiaochuYuan• over 3 years ago

Replying to @Malcolm_Ocean

@Malcolm_Ocean ayyy

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Ulkar@ulkar_aghayeva• over 3 years ago

Replying to @QiaochuYuan

@QiaochuYuan very true! https://t.co/34WtRk4ZBx

Ulkar@ulkar_aghayeva• about 5 years ago

Episodic recall is a mental time travel to the past, whereas planning is traveling into an imagined future. (G. Buzsáki, The brain from inside out)

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Ulkar@ulkar_aghayeva• over 3 years ago

Replying to @QiaochuYuan

@QiaochuYuan very true! https://t.co/34WtRk4ZBx

Ulkar@ulkar_aghayeva• about 5 years ago

Episodic recall is a mental time travel to the past, whereas planning is traveling into an imagined future. (G. Buzsáki, The brain from inside out)

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