Wizard of Whatever
Registered Senior Member
Anyone who wishes to repeat the experience of this life, world, universe, space, place, or time is terminally insane.
And last week I discover there is a British novelist, Kate Atkinson, who basically takes that do-over with unsourced intuition idea and runs with it.I need to read Ballard - you're the second person to mention him to me in the space of a few weeks. And swerving back to topic, I have wondered if there were inflection points in one's life where people would want to roll the tape back to, porting the wisdom of a lifetime back to that moment. As it is, all we feel we can do is look back occasionally and think man was I young and stupid! Usually mixed with a yearning for youth and innocence and a simpler worldview. It would be interesting to have a do-over where one loses all the memories of the later life, except for one crucial piece of information, planted as a kind of unsourced intuition.
Reincarnation, would you want to do it again? If you could, and if you had a choice, which next life would you want to live? Suppose you could model your fortunes and failures for the return visit. Perhaps you would come back as an animal or some other form of life, something not of this world?
Myself, I wouldn't mind repeating this life, but with insight into where I could do better. All things considered, it's been a good life. I could do it again.