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[–] remon@ani.social 22 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Because things aren't repeating?

[–] endless_nameless@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I think this obviously implies that your brain is getting reset each loop, in which case you wouldn't be aware of anything repeating.

[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Are you implying I'm not the hero that realizes it and breaks us all out? How dare you!

[–] CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Being "The One" is like being in love. No one can tell you you're in love, you just know it, balls to bones.

This is where I say "Hmmm that's interesting.

That's when you say...

[–] ClanOfTheOcho@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wait, weren't we talking about spoons?

[–] CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sorry, I'm all out of heroine.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Do you have some hero?

[–] fizzle@quokk.au 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

But if your brain is getting reset, then really your reality is, so its not so much of a loop as infinite new realities.

[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

but what if you're actually a slave? forced to work each day anew, with no memory of the previous day. i wouldn't call that "your infinite new realities" because those realities aren't really yours, as they don't provide you a path forward at all.

[–] fizzle@quokk.au 1 points 1 month ago

I don't understand this part:

those realities aren’t really yours, as they don’t provide you a place for you at all.

My point is, if I go to sleep tonight and time loops back around to this morning, and I don't remember any of today, then did today really happen? It didn't "happen" in any meaningful way.

It doesn't matter whether I entertained a dozen nubile virgins or toiled as a slave.

[–] remon@ani.social 3 points 1 month ago

Well, then it's just an unknowable not much different from the afterlife.

[–] moondoggie@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Unless you’re in a very long loop. You just haven’t gotten to the loop point yet.

[–] remon@ani.social 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah, but that basically means your entire life is the loop, making this just another silly idea about the afterlife. Though, not as silly as some of religious ones.

[–] moondoggie@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Unless it’s not your entire life and you’re in your first forty-year loop. You hit 60, wake up and you’re 20 again

[–] Today@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

When I'm high i think my like it game and I'll wake up to find that I'm 12. I make my husband promise to do everything exactly the same, even the stupid stuff, so we end up together. Ridiculous, but makes total sense to weed brain.

[–] chahn.chris@piefed.social 2 points 1 month ago

What if the repeat starts right after the point where you die?

Then you wouldn’t have any memory but you would be stuck in the loop.

[–] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Phil? Phil Connors.