[Serious] Is the Past Real?

[Anomalocaris]

Past is as real as its effects on the present.    You can consider it to be unreal if you don’t care for insight into the present it offers through effects on the present you can deduce but as yet have not directly observed.

You can also consider it unreal if you don’t care to deduced what a future born of the present should look based on what the present born of the past actually looks like.