A key concept in “The Gone World” is the generation and destruction of Inadmissible Future Trajectories (IFT). The Terra Firma is the original timeline from which these new worlds are born from. IFTs are collapsed when the time traveler exits the wormhole which gives incentive to those within an IFT to make sure this event never happens. The creation and destruction of IFTs share a striking resemblance with dreams. In dreams a separate world is created which is tailored to the observer’s psychology. Often dreams reflect reality and consider potential situations that could occur in the future. Like IFTs every construction in the dream is dissolved upon waking. However, a key philosophical debacle presented with the IFTs is whether life means anything with the knowledge that the universe could come to an end. This same phenomenon is true of dreams. On the surface dreams have no impact on physical life. The journal article, “The dream as space, time and emotion,” explores the function of dreams. Seferis concludes that dreams are intended to release emotional energy collected from the recent past. Dreams are an expenditure of energy which means they have a physical effect on the real world. The same phenomenon is true of the IFTs. The information created in IFTs is useful not just in the Terra Firma, but other IFTs as well. The initial perception of a person is living in an IFT is intense nihilism, but this is response does not fully consider the situation. Living within an IFT represents an opportunity to help every possible timeline with the knowledge gained in this timeline. The value of their contributions is not meaningless because it will end but is made infinitely meaningful across all timelines. In many ways the position of the IFT is more hopeful than our physical reality. Physicists currently predict that the universe will eventually begin to contract which will end our existence. Although this is not expected to occur until far into the future this implies that any action taken is ultimately pointless. Still, although humanity is knowledgeable of this fact, it does not stop people from striving for achievement. The human race and even the universe is incredibly fragile, and many events could destroy both. The possibilities are too great in number that it is not possible to worry about them all.
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