Would you rather go to the future or go to the past? Assuming you can change your past and your future, which would you pick? For example, maybe your schizophrenia was triggered by marijuana and you want to go back in time with the memories and not smoke marijuana, would you? Or would you rather go to the future where they have a cure? Maybe the future is ugly or better? Maybe the past is obsolete or dull? Personally, I would definitely go to the future! I would take the cure for schizophrenia, have all the trans-human technologies inserted into my body and I believe I would have a better life. I would pick the year 2100. How about you? Would you pick the year 2100 too? How would your life be better? Thank you!
I am also planning on taking a philosophy course that will talk about time travel. I am eager to learn the philosophy behind it, the different theories and paradoxes! Thanks again.
Id change the present by getting sober from weed. It’s the only thing that’s really harming me right now. I can control the present. I feel there’s not as much control over the past or future!
Yes, it sounds very fun. It is high quality too! From MIT. Anyways, there’s some cool maths too. I definitely think time travel is possible, but right now, it’s just a dream.
I would travel to the past, for I remember it and would know what to expect and what I would change.
If I traveled to the future, I might be totally snowed by what I saw. And it might be a lot worse than I expected. I wouldn’t want to be so disappointed.
If I could somehow rewind time and go to the past, keeping my knowledge, I would make much better choices.
If going to the past entailed me keeping my present broken body and simply warning my young self to make better choices I wouldn’t, since that would be a completely different person and it wouldn’t affect me due to multiverse theory. I’d rather help people in my present time.
I would definitely go back in time and make better choices. I would never start taking Adderall, which contributed to my psychotic break. I would have gotten help for my codependency issues and gotten out of an abusive relationship. I would have moved back home after college and worked until I had enough to set out on my own. I would have done it the right way, instead of leaning on an unhealthy relationship to escape my adult responsibilities.
But mostly I wouldn’t have taken the Adderall. So much of my life over the past decade has been marked by my addiction to amphetamines. And that led to some very poor decisions. I lost a lot of things before I even had the chance to have them. Then I lost arguably the most important thing of all—my sanity. This really put me at the point of no return.
If I could go back in time, I would go back and reach out for help.
I was only thinking of the H.G. Wells version, where the narrator is the same person traveling backward and forward in his time machine. At the end, in the remote future, doesn’t he end up at the edge of some wasteland or something? I’ll have to reread it.
I don’t think so. But I may as well, with the working memory and concentration issues I have now after my psychotic break.
I went through a break-up in college and went to the university counseling center because I was having trouble concentrating on my coursework. I had been getting straight A’s and was worried I would fall behind. They put me on Adderall. I never should have been prescribed it, but I was and became addicted to it fairly quickly.
