Drunken Walking Man” is a short story by Taizo Kobayashi. It is included in the short story collection “toy repairer”.

(Spoiler below)

Time perception is one of brain functions, and time does not actually flow in one dimension, but only as if the brain were one-dimensional.

Just as the semicircular canals sense the direction of gravity, the time sense organs sense the direction of time.

  • Break it, and you lose all sense of time.
  • While conscious, the time connection is determined by total mobilization of vision, etc.; when unconscious, the time sense organs determine the time connection.
  • Therefore, when the time sense organ is destroyed, time appears to flow in a linear fashion while awake, but when you lose consciousness, for example by going to sleep, you feel as if you woke up on a random day
  • Sometimes they come back on the same day.
    • The wave function re-diverges as many times as you want.

Not determined until observed.

  • Observations cause convergence of the wave function
  • Convergence is unidirectional.
  • Observation may be creating a time asymmetry.

Convergence of wave functions through observation and the “ability” to advance consciousness in one dimension “from the past to the future”.

  • The destruction of the time sense organ causes it to be lost.
  • Nothing is definite because we can go back to the pre-convergence state as many times as we want.
    • You work hard and achieve something, but it never happened.
    • Effort in objective time will increase the probability of success in objective time , but even if success in is observed in subjective time , it may appear in in the state before effort in .
    • [It’s like a river of rice paddies.

Do causes precede results?

  • To begin with, the concept of “cause precedes effect” is also a concept built on the premise that time flows in one dimension. - Causality is an empirical habit

Wife: “We too may be reincarnated at a random point in time when we die.”


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