Does our past = our memory?!


Question: Does our past = our memory?
Here's my own thoughts on our past and how it's related to memory. I want to know what you all think. now speaking in the terms if time travel was possible, we all know the paradox of going back in time and killing our past selves... theoretically it would prevent us from being born, thereby making us vanish from existance which in turn means we couldn't have gone into the past to kill ourselves if we never existed.. now here's my own theory:

If we were to go back in time and essentially murder ourselves, we would not dissapear, but depending on the age of ourselves when we kill ourselves, it would erase all memories from that point on. For example, if we killed ourselves in the past at age 15, then we would only sustain memories for those 15 years, and everything after the death of 15 year old you would vanish from existence, or our memory, since we weren't ever alive after 15 to create new memories. Making us a living ghost from that point forward, and we wouldn't even know it. We'd be stuck with that Drew Barrymore disease from 50 first dates.

Picture a roll of string, if you start pulling that string (resembling your life) then suddenly cut the string but continue pulling the string, the connection of the string that was severed gets further and further away from the spool (symbolizing the rest of your life, or your memories that now have no place to go) and the empty gap gets bigger and bigger as you carry on with your life, and the only pices of string remaining (your memories) is where you made the cut that is in your hand.

THUS,
The past = nothing but memories

Answers:

No.

First of all, time is not a place, you can't go back to a specific event, because time is not the same for everyone. So you can't recreate a linear distance back in time and expect everything else to be back there too.

Time travel movies and stories have corrupted the human mind as to what time is.

Time is really nothing more than an imaginary concept in the human mind, as are numbers and math.

Memories, as they are, are selective. Two or more people discussing an event in the past will all remember things differently. And as time passes, your own memory of things changes too.

Its all not important, and does not warrant the amount of time and effort you are trying to put into this, because once you start creating a long drawn out conclusion based on something that you are wrong about right at the beginning, everything after that was all a waste of effort.

The only thing that matters is the present.




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