Yes, consciousness is described as a constant feedback loop by Douglas Hofstadter in his book ‘I am a strange loop’.
Well with the read it you want to explore this though a bit further.
Really puts those awkward memories into perspective.
Kinda feels like my systems past. I have d.i.d. and often feels that way. Memories of someone else that wasn’t me but I’m now someone else with the same memories but not the same person
Assuming that if you were able to go back to that point in time and everything beyond that point happened in the exact same way with the exact same responses by you, yes.
Or there could be branching, and that person will become someone different.
You can also look at time like collection of snapshots, and that person won’t become anything else.
Every event is inevitable. If it wasn’t, it wouldn’t happen.
-O.W. Grant
Watched that movie recently. Gold.
in 2025 Souroak invented imagination
VR was invented when John V. Reality tried to imagine two things at the same time.
There’s a word for that, “anemoia”.
Anemoia, if I’m not mistaken, is a feeling of nostalgia for something you haven’t experienced yourself. I think the OP is referring to themselves from the past?
