Astral travel in time

David Duffy · 07 Apr 2006, 07:19 · from 2006-April.txt.gz

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From: David.Duffy at qimr.edu.au (David Duffy)
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2006 17:19:46 +1000 (EST)
Subject: (urth) Astral travel in time
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On Fri, 7 Apr 2006, nastler wrote:

> Couldn't Silkhorns power here be described as changing
> the memory of an event (inserting a new memory)
> through story-telling, rather than to really change
> the past? Wouldn't this have the same (desired)
> effect? To alter the subjects future?
>
> This would mean the past stays the past, now is now,
> and the future (or one version of it) is yet
> unwritten, but is influenced by our perception of (not
> the reality of) past events. This in no way explains
> the (instant) AT though. Unless SH is attempting to
> use his power on us (readers of SS) to alter our
> memory of what happened ten books ago.
>
> nastler
>
Hey, this is the conceit of Mitchell's _Cloud Atlas_.

David Duffy

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