Don't mind these ramblings too much.
I think to myself that perhaps this world I find myself in is no longer the same. Each day, waking up, things appear similar. The bookshelf is in the same place. The bed is in the same place. The car works. The roads have the same configuration. Everything materialistic seems to be in the same place. The electricity still runs/works. The content of the fuel tank is the same. The electronic documents saved before are still there.
It would stand to reason then, that all individuals would probably be the same too, right? The electrical and physical configurations of their brains are most likely in a similar state minus the obvious effects of their experiences since previously encountered. What if I am not looking at the same things though? I suppose there is a notion that my existence spans an additional dimension of time which shifts in one direction. Whether this is a dimension like the others, I don't know if there has been a solid consensus on that. I know some physics equations relate to this dimension, and others relate to proper time.
At any rate, what if there is an additional dimension which I move along per my deeds. For example, doing one "good thing" moves me "one unit" along this continuum. What would change as a result? Could I find myself in a completely different universe that is strikingly similar to the previous with some minuscule changes here and there?
It seems like babbling, I suppose. The idea of a changing world in this sense is often rejected. It seems to me that there must be some solid assumption that will give way though. The shape of the Earth, the location of the Earth relative to the Sun, size of the Solar System with respect to the Galaxy (?), size of our Galaxy in comparison to the universe...I'm not confident of all of those, but it seems like false assumptions get upturned eventually. Going "down", the concreteness of matter, composition of the atom, composition of sub-atomics... It seems like a general trend could be towards less significant and more dynamic. As if the entire universe is going through an ego diminishing process. Curious.
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