The past is important because it holds lessons learned, from people who have left or are leaving. It carves a winding route that leads to now. Trace it back, and it takes you on a ride to the roots of everything. There you are, sitting next to Beethoven, being taught by him, learning how he sees the world and how he extracts music out of it. Now you’re standing at a time when the religions were being born, watching the accounts written about in the books first hand. How about living among giants and dinosaurs, in a world very alien to the one today? Then imagine knowing the answer to maybe the most itching question of all. How does it all start at the very beginning? Where does it all come from and what did it look like at first? Choose Past. I am the most significant.
It’s easy to get dazed when someone plays the genesis card. You’re thinking how great the Past is, and how much the Present sucks right now, amIright? It’s boring and nothing ever happens. Everyone wants to be older or younger; no one cares for the now. Listen my friend, I am the best tense. Here’s why. Your humanity, your ability to sense and feel depends on me, cannot exist without me. You see and you hear in the present, you smell and breathe in the present, and its real because of me, because you are in the present. Your feelings of joy, and sadness, are happening right now regardless of what time you may be reflecting on. No memory can compete with my intensity, with my richness and colour. Every process in that over sized brain of yours is occurring Now thanks to me. There is only emptiness with the other tenses. Here’s a thought experiment. You go into the past, and you’re living next to dinosaurs (How great), how would you experience anything without me? Would you even be living? The past would have to become your present for you to feel anything. For you to feel alive, you will need to occupy a present that is in the past. Am I making sense? Believe me my friend, I am the Present, and life has no meaning when I am absent. I am integral to it!
The future is beautiful. It cannot get here soon enough. Ever. With better technology, we will decipher the past, and recreate it. We will bring back organisms that have gone extinct by applying the advances in Biology to our DNA banks. We will learn about our origins and our past by building better instruments and detectors. We will harness wormholes and travel faster than light, reaching the boundaries of this Universe and try to move beyond it. We will rewind and re-watch our history as we please using reverse-engineered-simulations so powerful and complex, an unaided brain missing the implant will be boggled to understand them. Neuroscience’s fruits will be rampant and omnipresent in the future. Everything will be intelligent, and ready to interact with you. This science will make The Present’s philosophical argument you just read redundant and laughable. Through Neuroscience’s understanding of ‘Consciousness’ and the ‘Self’, we will be able to experience, feel and consume in novel ways. These new possibilities will put us on an exponentially accelerated course towards the Future. In doing so, this will diminish the principal problem with The Present, which is death by the way. There is only so much time to be alive in, choosing the Present would be an inefficient use of such a valuable gift. Instead, the technology of the Future promises to alleviate scarcity in all aspects of life, including those that you may currently find un-intuitive or intangible. Select the Future. It is beautiful.
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