How would you know if you were experiencing the “wrong” time?
I’m inclined to agree with your theory about all states existing “simultaneously” but I’m not sure how to reconcile this with the continuous-feeling nature of experience.
Continuity is mostly an artifact of memory, I expect. The “you” of 11:30 remembers the experiences of 11:29 quite well, remembers 11:20 (often lesser in fidelity), but the experiences of 11:31 and other future times not at all. Frequent vivid memories of particular past experiences can break this feeling of continuity to some extent, though the directionality remains and establishes some ordering.
This would predict that people who have frequent vivid delusions of future experiences probably have a much weaker feeling of continuity of experience, if any such people exist.
How would you know if you were experiencing the “wrong” time?
I’m inclined to agree with your theory about all states existing “simultaneously” but I’m not sure how to reconcile this with the continuous-feeling nature of experience.
Continuity is mostly an artifact of memory, I expect. The “you” of 11:30 remembers the experiences of 11:29 quite well, remembers 11:20 (often lesser in fidelity), but the experiences of 11:31 and other future times not at all. Frequent vivid memories of particular past experiences can break this feeling of continuity to some extent, though the directionality remains and establishes some ordering.
This would predict that people who have frequent vivid delusions of future experiences probably have a much weaker feeling of continuity of experience, if any such people exist.