Lets Record Future.

[Gulnara]

Say, future and past do exist at all times. We are capable of recording present events. What is required to record past or future if they exist simultaneously? When we record present events, we use machinery that deciphers to us the images the way we are capable to understand, the way we see them with our own eyes and brain. This is the way we created those recording devices. When I want to see future with my eyes, I can not do it, I have to wait until I am capable of perceiving it as present. Say, I am able to set recorder to record future that I can not perceive, then I should be able to see it appearing in my digital camera as video. Say my miraculous recorder can be set on any date and time I wish to record from the future. The recorders that we have are set only on recording present or rather recording the process of closest to us future coming into present in an ongoing manner. Our brain does the same.

The brain has evolved to perceive the only time from the future, that is closest to present, so human body, due to its physical construct can take actions in accordance, and have reactions to those actions. If, say, someone perceives farther future all the time, and his bodily functions, actions can not relate to this events, can not affects them and produce result, then this way of perceiving is not beneficial and could not survive. Such way could not survive in the domain of requirements of survival placed on human beings by environment.

Say, I am one of those misfits who can see tomorrow as if it was present ( instead of present). I see a butterfly on a flower, and completely do not see that a wild beast is attacking me. I am suddenly being bitten, scratched, eaten, all while I see a paradise around myself, do not feel pain, do not see my own blood gushing. I enjoy a view and apparently since yesterday I had broken limb, and assumed that it was result of what happened to me yesterday, because two days ago I've seen some beast attacking me and I was screaming, running, to no avail, and nothing was happening to me: no bites, no blood, no pain. or, I would have hard time to build logical chain between what I see and real events in my life. My perception was not in tune with what goes on in a more manageable chunk of time, right where future turns into present. Plus, all the humans, all the animals have to be on the same page, perceiving time similarly in order to interact in any way. We inherited particular perceiving mechanism of time from the animals.

What happens to the objects, they have no perception of time or ability to interact with live creatures. They bump into us, trains and cars kill people, tsunami causes horrors. All because matter and things, objects made of it do not have mechanism of synchronous time perception. But at least live creatures have it, an they evolve to properly act around things, substances, natural disasters, other creatures.

The device, the recorder should be able to record for us the future. That way we can perceive present and we are able to know future. Life can become boring, when everything is known in advance. People can opt at least to know the most important points in life, because to check on every moment of your future life would mean completely replacing time spent on perception of present time with something you can not control. That would send us back to having misfit time perception, sort of, at least shift importance from “now” towards simply overlooking all the possible outcomes of our future lives, of which there would be many, so even devoting 100% of our time watching future, we’d be able to see only fraction of our future, so we’d hit the moment when even viewing future would start legging behind, and become oddly familiar as our past. So continuous, uninterrupted viewing of all possible outcomes of out future live’s events would not work. It would have to be very choosy, fragmentary viewing. Similar thing is happening nowadays, when people got chance to easily make and accumulate thousands of pictures, and videos of their lives, without really having time to watch all those videos or look at photographs. Perhaps, editing down, creating catalogs and googling could be solution for such overload of “caught reality”.

The knowledge about ones future events, could it then set person on a path of trying to change certain things in the present in order to avoid future misfortunes or accidents? Would it be possible? Again, only imagining that future holds any possible outcome can explain that changing present events for the bettering of the future can actually work. Why then do we need to see future, if it involves every possible outcome? Well, may be "every possible" means not infinity or gazillions, may be some quite modest finite number , depending on event. Checking the list of possible outcomes can be pretty beneficial for people, because to just try and imagine what possibilities are ahead is not always achievable, resulting, perhaps, in a ton of missed possibilities. I am sure, some of those possibilities to succeed are mind boggling. That way person can choose among possible happenings which one he prefers to happen and make certain adjustments in his present. That sound good.

Going to the past and changing something out there, is, probably, also possible, but only if the change affects future, but not the starting point in the present. Any missed opportunity can be taken advantage of this way, by adjusting things in the past. For example, killing one's own grandfather simply will not be on a list of possibilities, because starting point in the present will dictate it's rules.

I think analyzing the possibilities of the future, after people are able to record it, can be assigned to computers. They will simply give a list of most beneficial actions to be taken at precise hors and days, months. I suspect that a lot of times those action will be quite obvious, and some times seem illogical, but be beneficial nonetheless.

[Present awareness]

A camera, is only able to record the light that is bouncing off of you at the present moment. The light that just bounced off of you one second ago, is already 36,000 miles away.

If you take a photo and then look at it, you are looking at the light bouncing off the photo in the present moment. You might say that you are looking at the past, but you are doing so in the present moment, using the light that is here and now.

It takes about 5 minutes for the light from the sun to reach the earth, and it arrives in an unbroken stream from the source, to the earth, to infinity. The only light we will ever see, is the light that is here and now.

It could be said that the light which left the earth a year ago, is still out there, travelling through space. You would have to go faster then the speed of light, to catch up with it, which currently is not possible. Even if it were possible, you may see the image from a year ago, but you would still be in the present moment, while you were looking at it.

[Gulnara]

that's the point. prior to actually traveling somewhere in time, lets learn to take images, videos of events in other times. Same as I use Skype so I don't have to go to another country to see the person, we can learn to see future without the need to actually physically be there.