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> So for my current body, the event never happened, although you might have written the number down and will always remember it. In other words, the past is relative.

So where this event would be for you? In the future? Again?

Yes. Past is definitely relative. Special relativity is very specific about that ;)



The event is neither in my causal past (it has no influence over the current state of my body) nor in my causal future (I have no influence on it). It's simply uncorrelated with me. If now you remind me of the number again, it becomes part of the causal past of my (new) body. Analogy: if a dwarf dies in a fortress far far away and you don't hear about it, her death is neither in your past nor in your future. You know nothing about her state: in QM, you would say that your brain and her are in an uncorrelated, product state, something like |dunno><dunno| x (|dead><dead| + |alive><alive|)/2 . The x stands for \otimes, tensor product.




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