Think back to your earliest memory, Now project forward to the day of your death. It is impossible to know when this will come, but it will. What you have just surveyed might be called your "self-span", or the time when this entity you call your self exists. Either side of that, zilch, Which is very mysterious, and a little unsettling. Modern humans have existed for perhaps 100,000 years, and more than 100 billion have already lived and died, We assume that they all experienced a sense of self similar to yours. None of these selves has made a comeback, and as far as we know, neither will you.
展开▼
