SaintCrazy wrote:
What if you just had an awesome adventure where you saved the world from death and destruction, but then once you saved the world and became a hero, you went back in time to prevent anything bad from ever happening, so now you'll never know the adventure you just had?
Shit, I was gonna post something like this, except along the lines of those stories where somebody gets their memories erased after the big adventure they had.
Like, think of it. You see the end of that sentence I just made? After you read that, you just went on a magical journey where some magician teleported you to another universe where you had all sorts of wacky adventures, and then to protect their secret, you were placed back in your room at the exact same moment with your memories erased. And now you're reading this post considering this theoretical idea as if you've never left.
This could also be applied in another sense. Like, for example: The universe, and everything in it, only began once you started reading this paragraph. All the atoms in the universe just happened to appear suddenly in the formation that makes this current situation, along with all the memories in your head of what supposedly has happened before that point. Like, you obviously don't believe it to be true considering you JUST experienced reading through the rest of the thread, except you can never be sure that it's actually something that just happened. So considering that, does it really matter that the universe started 10 seconds ago?
Consciousness is a weird topic.