Fall in Priluki

Still, I finally got to experience the autumn space! I thought all the vivid impressions would be limited to the spring vibe, but autumn turned out to be vivid too — both visually and in terms of how it felt. Although the sensations came only towards the end of October ...

It all started with a simple act of curiosity — a question to the AI chat. As she was falling asleep, the wife jerked suddenly, woke up, and said she had dreamed that she was walking somewhere and fell.

I suddenly found this interesting: why do we flinch in our sleep, and at the same time we have a whole story unfolding—how we were walking, doing something, and suddenly we fell. A person can fall asleep and jerk a minute later, and in the dream there’s a whole plot. What’s going on with time—does it not work that way?

It turns out that hypnagogic twitches when falling asleep are quite simple from a biological perspective, but things get more interesting with sleep: the brain draws a plot in a fraction of a second after the startle, and it seems to us as if it were some kind of story. That’s how it is!

This got me thinking, and I started poking the AI chat further... what if (my favorite question) all of reality is also rendered in a fraction of a second, and there is no past?

After all, the past (as the chat told me) is reconstructed each time upon awakening and is assembled based on the experience lived through and some physical evidence.

It turns out that the past is always in our minds, and it’s not always what it actually was.

Or maybe it never even happened? Maybe I woke up and my brain redrew the entire universe, complete with knowledge of the experience I’d had and all the details that can’t be refuted.

All the AI chatbots I asked about this kept telling me the same thing: “If we assume that every morning you start over with the entire history and the feeling of ‘I lived through this,’ then no experiment can refute that. This is a philosophical dead end, and it’s honestly designed in such a way that there’s no logical way out of it... it’s a boundary of logic itself. At this point, even the most rigorous sciences throw up their hands: they don’t prove the reality of the past; they simply work with the assumption that the traces of the past are reliable.”

Another chat: “Memories can attest to the past, but they don’t guarantee that you existed continuously, nor that you died and then came back.”