Rules to Follow to Evade Causality Paradoxes
1. Do not disturb the box after you exit it. You or your double is in it.
2. When re-experiencing time, stay away from your double until he/she has started his/her journey backwards.
3. Worry about yourself first. Now is the only moment that has to make sense.
4. Don’t be too curious about your surroundings.
I found this interesting on several levels: I had just re-watched Primer and went looking for insight on aspects I wasn’t getting on my own…
What intrigued me the most was devising real life protection from the hypothetical security implications of having perfectly indistinguishable body doubles of people walking around.
Imprinting people with tamper-proof and unique software taggants would be one of them, but then they would get replicated along with the body of it’s owner — to make them effective, we would have to be able to monitor them remotely and then check for duplicates. Could we get any more 1984?
