If death (assuming no afterlife) erases your conciousness, it should also erase your memory of ever having been concious. It should be as though you never existed at all, right? Not just future and present gone, but past.
So then how are we here, being concious and remembering stuff? How could that be unless the universe is inherently static, or at least endlessly self-repeating, and us being concious is just a permanent feature of our corner of it?
Has anyone else thought about this or am I just rambling?
Think of the universe as having 4 dimensions. The path we travel through time traces out a complex form in the 4d fabric of the universe. In other words, each “moment” in time is a 3 dimensional slice of that 4 dimensional whole. The same way a circle is a 2D slice of a sphere.
In other words: the universe can be considered static in 4 dimensions, and our perception of time is really our travel through that 4 dimensional space.
This is what I was trying to get at, thanks. I just had the feeling that the existence of conciousness as a phenomena implied what you're describing.