Anonymous
7/11/2025, 1:10:37 AM No.40698123
Looks I'm finally having my first proper schizo moment.
I was watching Anime and decided to play around with stuff on my desk. I moved a screwdriver from one side of the desk to the other. Then back again.
Motion! What fun. The brain can create a signal to make my muscles move, and my muscles can somehow move matter from one "place" to another, wherever that place is, given we don't have a frame of reference.
As I kept moving the screwdriver I was suddenly confronted with the absurdity of my situation. Why the fuck would I be able to "move" all these millions of tiny particles that make up the screwdriver, all while they perfectly retain their shape and stay in place? But they don't stay in place, do they, because I allegedly "moved" them to another "place".
After this there came a slight burst of anger. Not only are the "objects" that I "move" clearly fake, an illusion, it would seem that this illusion is presented to me on purpose, as a form of mockery I suppose. As if someone wanted to nudge me into action. And that wasn't even the best part. The final trick is this: when I put the screwdriver from one spot to another, and then back to its exact original place, I did not travel to the past. I did not "undo" my previous action, I simply created a new action that overrides the previous one. The universe holds no memory of the screwdriver's previous position. Only one save state at a time. Wherever it is right now, that's where it's always been! And when I put it on another table, in another room, then that's where it is. No trace of it remains here. I cannot turn back time because there is no past. It instantly evaporates and becomes a new present!
What a miserable trick this is... one more test. I move the screwdriver back and forth, returning it to it's "previous" position each time, while keeping one eye on a stopwatch. And wouldn't you know it. Every time I move the screwdriver "back" the display lags ever so slightly before turning to the next second.
I was watching Anime and decided to play around with stuff on my desk. I moved a screwdriver from one side of the desk to the other. Then back again.
Motion! What fun. The brain can create a signal to make my muscles move, and my muscles can somehow move matter from one "place" to another, wherever that place is, given we don't have a frame of reference.
As I kept moving the screwdriver I was suddenly confronted with the absurdity of my situation. Why the fuck would I be able to "move" all these millions of tiny particles that make up the screwdriver, all while they perfectly retain their shape and stay in place? But they don't stay in place, do they, because I allegedly "moved" them to another "place".
After this there came a slight burst of anger. Not only are the "objects" that I "move" clearly fake, an illusion, it would seem that this illusion is presented to me on purpose, as a form of mockery I suppose. As if someone wanted to nudge me into action. And that wasn't even the best part. The final trick is this: when I put the screwdriver from one spot to another, and then back to its exact original place, I did not travel to the past. I did not "undo" my previous action, I simply created a new action that overrides the previous one. The universe holds no memory of the screwdriver's previous position. Only one save state at a time. Wherever it is right now, that's where it's always been! And when I put it on another table, in another room, then that's where it is. No trace of it remains here. I cannot turn back time because there is no past. It instantly evaporates and becomes a new present!
What a miserable trick this is... one more test. I move the screwdriver back and forth, returning it to it's "previous" position each time, while keeping one eye on a stopwatch. And wouldn't you know it. Every time I move the screwdriver "back" the display lags ever so slightly before turning to the next second.
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