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by AstralStorm 3030 days ago
A person recreated from memory is still a fake, no matter how accurate you and your memory are.

And most people do boot have the skill to do a full character model at the age of 6. It takes special talent nature to do that even when old. That is even ignoring the fact that people change and adapt over time in hard to predict ways.

So this thought exercise is actually protecting your own wishes through the light of some imagined model of a person. Might as well use Tarot cards instead.
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SiVal 3030 days ago
And most people do boot have the skill to do a full character model at the age of 6.

The poster said he was 6 in 2001. It's no longer 2001, and he's no longer 6. I told him he couldn't have done it back then but it might be worth trying now.

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bipson 3030 days ago
You are right, it is a mind game, IMO just not as far fetched as you paint it.

I think what GP is aiming at is this: If you think you are a worse person (whatever that means) than you could be, be it from your or any other persons' perspective, is it too late to change?

Or put differently: Years after someones death, the picture of what one could be, is a mind-game already. From here to picturing what you/your mind would like to change is not that much of a stretch.

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