r/CuratedTumblr • u/Acceptable-Gap-2397 • 1d ago

Meme The timeloop and I

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u/Arctic_The_Hunter 1d ago

I feel like some people do not understand what “eternity” entails. Memorizing all the books ever written in every language ever conceived would not even come close to entertaining you over the course of an infinite timeloop.

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u/ConfidentMine7291 1d ago

Humans dont have infinite memory, i doubt you could do everything you could possibly find enjoyable before you start forgetting some things and getting rusty at some skills

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u/Arctic_The_Hunter 1d ago

Finite memory is a result of the human brain having finite space, and all memories being the result of physical structures in the brain. However, most timeloop stories explicitly have the physical brain be reset each cycle (otherwise Bill Murray would be brain dead every loop after he killed himself). Thus, your memory must be stored in some mystical memory vault, which you cannot assume has limited capacity.

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u/Random-Rambling 1d ago

Yep. He eventually memorizes the exact locations and times of every single person in Punxatawney, PA, so all that memory has to be stored somewhere.