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(This is a really stupid question) How do you know that you are not stuck in a time loop unable to wake up? (lemmy.world)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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Food for thought.

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[–] 34 points 7 months ago (19 children)

Because things aren't repeating?

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  • [–] 19 points 7 months ago (11 children)

    I think this obviously implies that your brain is getting reset each loop, in which case you wouldn't be aware of anything repeating.

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  • [–] 13 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    Are you implying I'm not the hero that realizes it and breaks us all out? How dare you!

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    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...

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    But if your brain is getting reset, then really your reality is, so its not so much of a loop as infinite new realities.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago* (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    I don't understand this part:

    those realities aren’t really yours, as they don’t provide you a place for you at all.

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Unless you’re in a very long loop. You just haven’t gotten to the loop point yet.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

    When I'm high i think my life is fake 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.

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