tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907216.post3781855411485499506..comments2024-03-22T22:39:49.773-05:00Comments on I don't know, but . . .: A second try?jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01792036361407527304noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907216.post-69446815457573450822014-06-14T11:49:21.315-05:002014-06-14T11:49:21.315-05:00You've thought this through more than I have: ...You've thought this through more than I have: the interference with the early me might be problematic.<br /><br />One amusing tweak would be if _everybody_ now alive who was alive in 1972 re-inhabited their 1972 selves, not just me. (Or include those who'd died in the interim too.) Remembering historical trends would be useless (though there would be lots of preemptive murders anyway) and there'd be lots of races to grab resources, start the first X (what do you need first in order to make microchips?), etc. Others would be at sea: do I perform the song everybody remembers or try new ones our group didn't have time to before? And how do you raise the old kids (as opposed to the new ones)? And from another aspect, some people would try to be better people and some would try to be better off. That might make an interesting premise for an SF novel.jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01792036361407527304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907216.post-50194949258289669302014-06-13T21:06:23.212-05:002014-06-13T21:06:23.212-05:00Something very like this is a recurring daydream o...Something very like this is a recurring daydream of mine. I often get fascinated by the mechanics of it, wondering if I could put up with the boredom of even going along for the ride (never mind having to actively attend to and repeat what I once did spontaneously) of events that I didn't want to change for months on end. I eventually decided that inhabiting that young man's head for only brief periods, or leaving myself notes, might be the only way it was endurable. I couldn't live even the best parts of my life over for very long.<br /><br />Which leads to interesting thoughts about myself as receiver of myself. Would the original me fight back, refusing to be taken over, not believing that it was, hey now you chucklehead ME, er US, that was trying to come in. Are there two selves or an old man living in a young one's body?<br /><br />Alternatively, a dim awareness of the future superimposed on my old self might work. However I interpreted that prescience, I might at least make better decisions. Also, would I consider the experience proof of the existence of God or evidence against that?<br /><br />The next step is to wonder if it still might happen after all, with the 2030 version of myself moving into my head next year to help me make better decisions in old age?Assistant Village Idiothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907216.post-91796435624434594252014-06-12T21:27:49.781-05:002014-06-12T21:27:49.781-05:00I will come back to this. Provoking.I will come back to this. Provoking.Assistant Village Idiothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.com