Life as a Digital Album

The whole sequence of events in life can be seen as experiencing some kind of photo album, where every event is made up of certain inputs (what we see, what we hear, what we smell, etc.). If those inputs are stored in our brain in some kind of form along with the timelines, and if somehow we get access to it, then it opens up several interesting possibilities!

We would have seen photo albums of some of our past events like birthday party, wedding, wedding annviersary, etc. When we see those photos now, we might recognize the presence of certain people which we might have missed to see in the actual event! We might have even felt bad about the fact that they did not come for the event! Whereas now, when we see the photo, we get a different perspective. Similarly if we could somehow glance through the event album present in our brain, and if we can get back to past, we might be discovering certain things!

Is Every Happening in Our Life is Pre-determined?

If there is a possibility that brain simply processes given inputs (like mentioned in my earlier entry), and gives us thoughts/experience/emotions/etc, then it opens up another interesting possibility. Probably even for the future, all the inputs are already made, and our brain simply does a journey through all those inputs!

We can see it as a kind of some photo album in which, photos are arranged in chronological order. When we see the photos, we try to feel the moments in the same chronological order. Another example could be watching a movie. Sometimes we get engrossed to the movie so that we feel as if we are part of the happenings in the movie. Similarly why not even the life that we experience is also some kind of album and we simply journey through it?

In essence, everything is pre-determined; the inputs for our brain for our every thinking/feeling is already made; and we simply consume them.