To: Elsewhere who wrote (21644 ) 5/28/2007 2:12:08 AM From: Frank A. Coluccio Read Replies (1) | Respond to JJ, your concept of capturing inner realities and archiving full motion files of real life experiences is very interesting. I think it's something we've all thought about in an offhand way without taking it to the next step and articulating how it would be done, or in fact beginning the process, such as you have. I introduced this today in another discussion after mulling over your post for the past day. I also brought up one of Adam Sandler's movies, "Click" in an unrelated way, at first, until I saw the parallels with what you were proposing. Have you seen Click? movies.yahoo.com "The charm of the movie "Click", if you can call it charm, is its ability to put the viewer through time-lapse experiences, inspiring one to engage vicariously (or at least I found myself doing that) in mental escapades. Of course, with the topic of remote controls being as close as it is to that which we discuss here frequently, the flick affected me in some ways that others who were in the room with me couldn't, or probably wouldn't, even if they could, appreciate. The movie's plot, benign as it was, allowed the main subject (Sandler) to fast-forward himself in time, and perform similar functions like stop, reverse his state of consciousness at various points in time, as though he were a file that could be manipulated under TiVO or DVR-like controls. Some interesting rules became evident. For example, if he fast-forwarded himself in time from 1998 to 2001, say, he could return to 1998 if he chose, but he could not go back to the intervening three years (e.g., 2000) again to change anything that took place then because during that time frame he existed in an auto-pilot state only. So in 2001, and going forward, he was forced to live with the changes that took place in his surroundings during the auto pilot period when he had no direct influence over matters. I found the flick entertaining, even if only because it appealed to the part of my brain that's usually asleep ;)" "The shenanigans pulled off in the movie, "Click," incidentally, could only be deemed even remotely plausible in real life if a Gordon Bell-like archive existed to allow one a source from which to draw content, at will, and an inference engine, in order to see into the future. Its author failed to demonstrate where the memory would reside (heaven, presumably, or maybe in a silo below), but it is implied."
