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Originally Posted by Brettus
My thinking at the time was not that the event never happened to create the thought, just that the timeline gets split earlier down and the line that we perceive time on and the (now) tangent that it came from dies out (or just drifts off into the other alternate realities perhaps.
If thoughts aren't (always) limited by time, ie they can hop from one point in time to another then can a paradox happen for something that doesn't experience time in a linear fashion that we are used to?
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You can't get around causality. So even if the cause of something was a thought, and the effect being a new timeline, the old timeline still has to exist or the new timeline can't exist as it's cause has gone - so events would revert to the original. Also there's never been any indication that effect goes in any direction other that forwards. Cause then effect, even if from some perspectives they appear out of order.
Thoughts are generally considered to be neurons activating in your brain, a flow of electrons perhaps - why would they obey any different laws from any other physical matter? Why would the smallest barely detectable event be more likely to be less limited by time than anything else?
Does it work in reverse? Like the reverse of deja vu, when you get to the kitchen only to find that you've got no idea why you went there? Perhaps those are the thoughts that pop up without warning at another time, like when you're hungry even though you've just eaten?