Basic premise: An offer – you get to do whatever you want for a period of time – anything, just about anything, that you ever might want to do – but, and here’s the fine print – you absolutely won’t remember what you did.
So, will you take it up?
In essence, you get all the satisfaction that you’ve always dreamed of deriving from that one activity, at least when engaging in that activity, but it won’t be a recurring first-person memory. Since the world will not stop existing because you forget about it, people will observe and recollect, they will remember what you did, and they will often be more than happy to recant to you what they percieve you did – only that you don’t remember anything of it.
There are a couple of issues with this – One, people may not always remember the most relevant things, or worse, add their dimensions, outlooks, prejudices to what they believe happened. This alone has enough potential to wreck your second-hand memory, which you are so desperate to acquire, and yet which will be denied to you. Two, consequences do not disappear, just because you have no recollection of the incidences. In fact, because the whole support system that would normally exist if you were knowledgable doesn’t exist, you basically don’t know how to react. You don’t have the upper hand. That does wonders to your confidence.
So, if you ever find yourself in such a position – and there will be times when you’d be – pray that my lifetime dream of having a personal “life recorder” that will record every evanascent moment of life in a multitude of dimensions and senses, is available for purchase, and that you’ve purchased and enabled it.
Then again, that offer probably wouldn’t make sense anyway, would it? Also, you wouldn’t, in all possibility, engage in an activity that you’d really want to do, knowing it is being “recorded”, so what if only for your personal consumption.
Darn, life is so complicated.