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And in fact time travel is possible 100% and sure to come. It is, by the way one of the easiest things to do. Now in the future, maybe after reaching the technological singularity, man (or man - machine hybrids) will have learned how to manipulate their own minds, their neural circuits and their memories. It won't be too hard to simulate a complete lifetime in these mind machines. Then you just have to simulate a person having a mental configuration like ours in one of these lifetimes and simply set him back to the world as he knew it 30 years earlier. Since the manipulated mind wouldn't know it is in a simulator, it will have the exact same experience and mental shock of a real time travel. But even the real time travel is only confirmed and assessed, measured by the mind experiencing it. So we will have 100% real time travel since the simulated or real thing is totally indistinguishable, what is really being measured is the mental - emotional experience.
In fact you can create time travel if you imagine that you are coming from the past or the future right in the moment you are. You manipualte and falsify your memories, since real and false memories are in the end exactly the same.
"So if self-identity is a software structure I can manipulate it as I want. So I can invent a memory and say I was once dead and now alive. So I resurrect an imaginary person but it really doesn't matter if the person was real since all our perception of reality is a software structure, an information, and as such has its reality based only on information. I can also self program my memories and say I travelled through time or anything else."
"In a sense this justifies creating false memories and complete false lives and complete delusions, since there is a you where what you invent is true, and even if it isn't the experience is what counts and is the only thing we really measure. Invent your own life."
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