Okay, I took that whole conversation a different way. Not that humans possess knowledge that the aliens don't have, but that human perception is totally different. Because of that difference, the interpretation of time couldn't be understood by these Aliens in the same way.
As for the idea that they are us from the future, and if that's the case why don't they have the same information? Well the easiest example I can give is popular culture. Follow me for a second, but history is littered with inconsistencies and half-truths. Usually dictated by what is popular. Our only real records of history is based on subjective interpretations of events. We can cross reference accounts of events, and muddle through truths. But the author of history is really perception.
Are you telling me that in five thousand years we will have the same version of history that we do now? That some government won't restrict or outright change that history to suit their policies and prejudices? If we somehow evolve to the point where we can see time as a physical dimension, can we even being to contemplate how our society would change? What if these beings are acting from an agenda, or perhaps they are acting based on a temporal causality issue, where these events happened and now they have to fulfill them exactly. Creating a loop of nonsense.
Just spit-balling, but those are my ideas surrounding the creatures and why they acted.
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Date: 2014-11-16 05:54 pm (UTC)Okay, I took that whole conversation a different way. Not that humans possess knowledge that the aliens don't have, but that human perception is totally different. Because of that difference, the interpretation of time couldn't be understood by these Aliens in the same way.
As for the idea that they are us from the future, and if that's the case why don't they have the same information? Well the easiest example I can give is popular culture. Follow me for a second, but history is littered with inconsistencies and half-truths. Usually dictated by what is popular. Our only real records of history is based on subjective interpretations of events. We can cross reference accounts of events, and muddle through truths. But the author of history is really perception.
Are you telling me that in five thousand years we will have the same version of history that we do now? That some government won't restrict or outright change that history to suit their policies and prejudices? If we somehow evolve to the point where we can see time as a physical dimension, can we even being to contemplate how our society would change? What if these beings are acting from an agenda, or perhaps they are acting based on a temporal causality issue, where these events happened and now they have to fulfill them exactly. Creating a loop of nonsense.
Just spit-balling, but those are my ideas surrounding the creatures and why they acted.
J.D.B.