RE: What would you do if you woke up one day to find you were the last person alive?
October 13, 2017 at 10:02 pm
I also thought about saying imagine a scenario where memories of everyone you ever knew disappeared too. But then I thought fuck that that would be such a fucking bizarre scenario because you'd also have absolutely no explanation for why or how you even spoke a language or even who the fuck you even were. It would be like being born into adulthood but without a family, friends, parents or even a society.
One thing is for sure is I bet that this bizarre situation ^^ would be an awful lot happier. We wouldn't know what we were missing if we had no memory of other people ever even existing in the first place.
But because we've evolved to be social beings.... I bet we'd still eventually become rather bonkers even in this scenario.
I mean, imagine knowing how to dress yourself but having no memory of your parents who taught you to address yourself.
Actually this is much like scenario one in the OP + severe dementia.
One thing is for sure is I bet that this bizarre situation ^^ would be an awful lot happier. We wouldn't know what we were missing if we had no memory of other people ever even existing in the first place.
But because we've evolved to be social beings.... I bet we'd still eventually become rather bonkers even in this scenario.
I mean, imagine knowing how to dress yourself but having no memory of your parents who taught you to address yourself.
Actually this is much like scenario one in the OP + severe dementia.
