5 Minute Hypothesis - Everything Was Made 5 Minutes Ago

Silence · 07-04-2016, 06:45 PM

As the title said, what if everything was created 5 minutes ago with built in memory traces? Everything you know, or think you know, was created 5 minutes ago. There was nothing before, you just think that you lived a life that wasn't there? Everything that you think you know has been fabricated and distorted but you yourself are only 5 minutes old.

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Zaiken · 07-04-2016, 06:46 PM

I can't really imagine it. lmao.

Silence · 07-04-2016, 06:47 PM

(07-04-2016, 06:46 PM)Mini Para Wrote: I can't really imagine it. lmao.

Just one of those "what if" things.
I stayed up one night just trying to wrap my head around it.
Wasn't successful.

Jebusfathead · 07-04-2016, 06:51 PM

We'll never know, however I think you should look up Clive Wearing, I learnt about him in psychology studying memory, he can't form new memories so he basically lives a 30-60 second snippet of time at any point.

Silence · 07-04-2016, 06:53 PM

(07-04-2016, 06:51 PM)Jebusfathead Wrote: We'll never know, however I think you should look up Clive Wearing, I learnt about him in psychology studying memory, he can't form new memories so he basically lives a 30-60 second snippet of time at any point.

I don't know how his family could bear to see him like that. I've heard of him before, but still that must be horrible. You don't know what you're living with, but everyone else does.

Zodiac · 07-04-2016, 07:03 PM

I think like this with my mum and dad. I don't think they were alive before me and my brother and sister were born lmao.

Jebusfathead · 07-04-2016, 07:22 PM

(07-04-2016, 06:53 PM)Silence Wrote:
(07-04-2016, 06:51 PM)Jebusfathead Wrote: We'll never know, however I think you should look up Clive Wearing, I learnt about him in psychology studying memory, he can't form new memories so he basically lives a 30-60 second snippet of time at any point.

I don't know how his family could bear to see him like that. I've heard of him before, but still that must be horrible. You don't know what you're living with, but everyone else does.

I don't know much about his family but he has a wife, and she's the one he remembers the most

Silence · 07-04-2016, 07:31 PM

(07-04-2016, 07:03 PM)Nath Wrote: I think like this with my mum and dad. I don't think they were alive before me and my brother and sister were born lmao.

Lmao that's kinda weird but I get it.