Let's say for the sake of argument that the answer is yes. That in theory, I could see myself being the person I'm remembering — but only in theory.
I've always had a good conception of who I am, I think. And from what I remember, she had a strong conception of who she was. The problem lies in the fact that who I am and who she is aren't very easy to juxtapose.
fine, only in theory. but in what you just said you are kind of proving what i mean. both you and her have that same trait of knowing exactly who you are. that part does not change even if the circumstances which you got to that point are very different. so that is where i think that it is not about not having a choice to become the people we are remembering. it is maybe more like deciding where the comparisons are and what to do from there. some of us come from worlds with lots of monsters and stuff so we cannot go back to the people we supposedly were. do you think even if you really remembered everything about that other person you would really be an exact copy of her?
I think that something complicating the issue for me is not knowing what it is that Retrospec wants. Do they WANT an exact copy of her? Because if they don't, then what would the purpose be of transferring her memories to me like this? Am I supposed to be a vessel for them, like some sort of biological flash drive?
i have read a lot of science-fiction and there are a couple of things that could be happening here. maybe there is no way to stop the process once it starts. or they want to clone us and did not take into account how to get rid of the memories from this life. i am not sure which one would be better or worse though.
Either way there isn't a great deal of thought being afforded to us, is there? In the end we're still the pawns on someone else's chessboard — and we have no idea how the game might be proceeding around us, when all we can do is move forward one space at a time.
when you put it that way it sounds both entirely logical and also totally depressing. i know this is not the first time people have been told the people we're remembering are us. something something giant sphinx with infinite knowledge. but at the same time i have to wonder if we are not being told how the game's proceeding because they don't know either until they see what we're doing. what would you call something like that?
There's a Portuguese term, "desenrascanço", which doesn't have any particularly good English equivalent, but that essentially describes the phenomenon you're thinking of, I think.
The closest I've heard to defining it in English is "pulling a MacGyver".
huh. sounds about as accurate as anything else. and it is better to pull a macgyver, i guess, than be a macguffin. i know it is probably not my place to say miss. uh. sandiego (?) but i'm not sure entirely going back to who we were is the end game. so don't worry about that too much. thanks for the food for thought though.
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I've always had a good conception of who I am, I think. And from what I remember, she had a strong conception of who she was. The problem lies in the fact that who I am and who she is aren't very easy to juxtapose.
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but in what you just said you are kind of proving what i mean.
both you and her have that same trait of knowing exactly who you are. that part does not change even if the circumstances which you got to that point are very different.
so that is where i think that it is not about not having a choice to become the people we are remembering. it is maybe more like deciding where the comparisons are and what to do from there.
some of us come from worlds with lots of monsters and stuff so we cannot go back to the people we supposedly were. do you think even if you really remembered everything about that other person you would really be an exact copy of her?
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maybe there is no way to stop the process once it starts.
or they want to clone us and did not take into account how to get rid of the memories from this life.
i am not sure which one would be better or worse though.
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i know this is not the first time people have been told the people we're remembering are us. something something giant sphinx with infinite knowledge.
but at the same time i have to wonder if we are not being told how the game's proceeding because they don't know either until they see what we're doing.
what would you call something like that?
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The closest I've heard to defining it in English is "pulling a MacGyver".
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sounds about as accurate as anything else.
and it is better to pull a macgyver, i guess, than be a macguffin.
i know it is probably not my place to say miss. uh. sandiego (?) but i'm not sure entirely going back to who we were is the end game. so don't worry about that too much.
thanks for the food for thought though.