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This is just a note to self, given the time-limited access to the content. In the documentary "The Rememberer" (episode 2), Matías De Stefano explains the 3-tiered concentric circles of Atlantis. The inner-most circle represents the future. The future was created first, because in the universe everything was first an intention. The middle represents the experience of the present. The outer circle represents the past. The future created the present so that we live out the past. ------------ The idea is fascinating. The analogy even works from a geometrical perspective. The future is the focal point, and of course the only reason why it's there is because of the intention for it to be. The future created by true intent is certain. Fittingly represented by the single focal point of a circle. The present as experienced is quite uncertain. We do not know where we are. We are anywhere in the circle. "self-locating uncertainty" is the name of the game. The past is where the wild hallucinations reside. Anything could have been in our past. There is no way to know, but we often guess. It's why people argue endlessly about what actually happened in the past. Most do not realize the past is just an hallucination. It's the stuff outside the circle of uncertainty of present. ------------- Curiously this answers the question I wrote down a couple days ago: ---- This might sound counterintuitive but i find it much harder to deconstruct the past than the future. It feels like the past is truly gone and one can never go back there, so whatever happened has an effect so far as it affects the present only. And since we can choose our present the effect of the past can be very minimal But the future is much harder to deconstruct. It feels like it is coming. We know it. Ironically, it is the past that teaches us about the future. But we know by the late nighters that we pulled and crucially the ones that we didn’t that tomorrow will come and if we are unprepared for it we will suffer the consequences. Deconstructing the past made us much freer. Why could we not do the same for the future? What promises does it hold? It must hold great freedom by logic of symmetry. But I have not cracked open the puzzle yet. ---- Crazy.