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Originally Posted by sillysally  That brings us to now, which doesn't even exist either cause we don't have anything before or after now. So basically I find myself agreeing with Nobody once again.  Life is pointless and we don't even exist or we never stop existing. |
Hi Sally .... I think your view is
very close to mine.
If you break it down to basics then the question becomes:
'Why is it I can 'see' the past but cannot 'see' the future.?'
My answer is that we don't see the past any more than we can see the future. All we see when we look 'backwards' are the records we retrieve from our memory banks.
'Then why do our memory records only contain the past ?'
They don't, not really, they only contain information that is necessary for survival.
Its important that we remember where Tigers live. Its important that we remember girlfriends birthdays and anniversaries. These are examples of things that are extremely dangerous and life threatening if we forget them. I see memory as a beneficial natural selection.
But I don't think memory is the past. Today thousands and thousands of passenger jets landed all over the globe. We don't know their destinations or their passenger lists (the past), just the same as we don't know tommorrows schedules (the future). But we do know that our girlfriend is arriving on flight QA509 out of Stonewall in Black Ankle Country at 1 pm , because it would be dangerous to forget it.
When we review our memory we think we 'see' the past. But all we 'see' are memories. The true past is as elusive as the future. It has no ordered shape. Everyones view of it is different.
cool bananas ... greg
