Have you ever heard the term “the future”? I’m sure you have… you know- ‘in “the future” we will need to be more environmentally conscious’ or ‘”in “the future” cars will fly in the sky’.
But also, the idea of people time travelling into “the future”. This is absolute bullshit, if you ask me- which no one did but this is my post so I will write what I want.
Why is it so far fetched, you ask? The simple wording tells you. THE future. Singular. If I jumped forward 20 minutes from now, when this post is already written… well it means the post is already written. The words have been chosen and the meaning depicted.
So?
If this ended up being a 500 word story, with over 200 000 words in the english language… thats 100 000 000 possibilities, that is one hundred million choices I have to make.
Jumping forward into the future, how have all those choices already been made… unless truth be told we don’t really have a choice?
If time truly is linear- that is it travels from A to B without going through any other points or doubling back on itself, then that’s true. We do not have choice.
This falls very much in line with the idea that all the choices we are presented with have already been made- for example, what am I going to have for breakfast this morning? I have a choice of many different foods, but if a non-biased force could review my life inside out, then they would be able to accurately predict which choice I am gong to make. If you can predict it, is it a choice?
Unless you wanna get all trippy and be like ‘that’s the matrix idea… the choice is already made. we just need ot understand it’.
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Read some of Michio Kaku’s stuff. He’s a futurist and has some fascinating concepts.
I don’t remember who said it but it was something like.
Time is all an illusion, we can refer to those points in time but it is just NOW.
You couldn’t go back or forward to those points they only exist in memory.
What is time, though?
Time by its very deffinition (the 4th dimension) is uni dimensional as it is but 1 of 4 connecting dimensions. This is a very old concept that everything is predetermined. As each action causes an equal and opposite reaction time becomes just a series of domino events ever expanding. Every decision and thought we think we make independantly were actually predestined since time immorial:)