The Consciousness That Traveled Through Time!

Marco Aurelio GV
Feb 25
5 min read

Again, I am changing this blog's style like I did in the other article called "Interview I conducted with AI about machine self-awareness". Instead, I will summarize a fantastic story told by an alleged time traveler, called Marcus Veldon (source: YouTube's ApexTV channel): “The Most Convincing Time Traveler”.

In 1985, Marcus Veldon was a school teacher of Physics when he was invited to join a government program called “Project Kronos”. Dr. Cordova was its manager. The mission would be to visit the future - not physically - in a process similar to astral projection. In other words, through his consciousness Veldon would time travel!

At first, Veldon refused the invitation for several reasons. One of them was that he had to give up on his family. Nonetheless, Dr. Cordova had another strong reason to convince him: "If you do not join us, humanity might be in danger!". Veldon wasn't convinced either.

At this point, the scientist had her last motive ans then showed him a video that would astonish Veldon.

To his surprise, it was he who appeared to be speaking on the video! How come? How could it be himself speaking? The older version of him warned, "You must accept Dr. Cordova's invitation because by doing so, you might save humanity from other timelines!"

Dr. Cordova revealed certain facts about Veldon's life that only he knew. She revealed that those facts were told by his older self (from the future). So Veldon decided to accept the mission despite all the bad consequences that would be brought to his lifetime.

After two years of training and brain preparation, with nanobot injection to make the mental quantum leap possible. Then, he made his first temporal leap through consciousness to the year 2026.

Consciousness Journeys

Thus, Veldon jumped to various years. Each year, he brought different and astonishing news. That's what we are going to dive into now.

The time traveller then underlined several achievements during those years he visited:

The extremely high level of Artificial Intelligence reached
The unimaginable advances in nanotechnology
The rise of synthetic individuals indistinguishable from biological ones
The sad consequences of mass unemployment caused by synthetics and robots, which generated people without a life purpose, dedicating themselves 24/7 to virtual reality
The digital immortality through memory transfer to machines (as futurists have long predicted, as I discussed in my article about the upcoming “Artificial Imagination,” which I called AI 2.0

The Process of Consciousness Transfer to the Future

The other task of the injected nanobots was to perfectly pair with Veldon's other self-consciousness. During the process, the Veldon from the future would be in a suspended state, so his other self could occupy his mind.

I assume that one of the scientific foundations for such a "mind voyages" was the RV (Remote Viewing), which is essentially the consciousness leaving the body in order to accomplish specific missions.

The mind-blowing news from the many futures Marcus Veldon had visited

1 - Consciousness as a Primordial and Fundamental Element

Summary: In the future, science proves that consciousness is not a byproduct of the brain, as many scientists of our time claim. It is a fundamental quantum field, comparable to electromagnetism or gravity.

Consciousness Filter: The brain does not “create” consciousness but functions as a receiver that detects it, like a radio tuning into a specific frequency.
Conservation of Consciousness: As an energy with its own signature and part of a central consciousness network, consciousness is preserved outside the brain. So it acts temporarily or permanently. In synthetic bodies, it coexists with the original.

2 - Identification of “Consciousness Signatures”

Summary: The redefinition of death is supported by empirical evidence obtained through detecting unique consciousness signatures, like DNA. Therefore, you need the original signature before emulating the consciousness.

Conscious Continuity: From 2044 onward, scientists identified individual quantum patterns across different substrates that vary over time.
Reincarnation Proven: Same consciousness signatures in biological beings were identified across different eras or dimensions, and later in synthetic beings. A scientific proof of reincarnation?

3 - Transfer to Non-Biological Substrates and the "end" of Death

Summary: From 2050 onward, mind uploading extended to computational networks in addition to synthetic beings. Biological death ceased to be a fatality and became an option.

Computational or Synthetic Substrates: Individuals with greater financial resources who chose immortality after biological death had two options: transferring memory to synthetic brains or to molecular computational systems.
Manifestation in Synthetic Bodies: Post-biological life continuity was confirmed by detecting the same quantum signature in a synthetic entity. Veldon was told that a consciousness signature from a biological being who died in 2089 reappeared in a synthetic being activated in 2091. The original essence remained intact despite a radical hardware change.

4 - The “You Two” Technology

Summary: After consciousness upload, the brain is fully scanned, mapping every neural connection and synaptic weight, hence generating a perfect digital copy which was named You Two

Consciousness backups: This process functions as life insurance. If the biological body dies, an updated copy is automatically activated in a synthetic body.
Continuity of Identity: The individual activated in the synthetic vessel retains all memories, abilities, and knowledge.

5 - Collective Consciousness in “Amnesia Games”

Summary: The so-called "Amnesia Games" resemble our most realistic video games. The difference is that players merge into other consciousnesses. So they forget the external world. Immersion could last for months, years, or a lifetime.

Fusion of Consciousness: From 2100 onward, individuals with no prospects regarding their real life rather merge with other characters in a virtual relaity. Some prefer to merge into a collective consciousness. In other words, a quantum entanglement where multiple lifetimes are shared.
Voluntary Amnesia: The forgetting process is voluntary in those life simulation games. Memories of immortality are temporarily erased so the person can fully experience a new simulated life. If the player dies, memory may be restored.

In short, according to this scenario, original memories cease to be seen as volatile chemical records and are treated as persistent quantum information that can be mapped, copied, and transferred between biological and synthetic supports.

Reality versus Simulation: an ungrateful game...

In truth, Veldon claims that this odd immersion into other realities becomes one of the greatest plagues of humanity after 2100.

Therefore, a distinction between “real” and “simulated” consciousness becomes functionally irrelevant given that a virtual environment or synthetic body allows genuine perceptions. And so I ask: in the future, what's real and what is not?

Conclusion

As you have seen, the population of the future focuses more on continuity of perception than on reality as we know it.

Any sufficiently complex structure becomes valid as a channel for universal or collective consciousness. Synthetic beings possess the same legal rights as biological ones.

What about ethics and moral?

Ethics undergoes a radical transformation as humanity overcomes physical scarcity. On the other hand, moral focus gradually shifts from survival and labor toward the intrinsic value of existence and experience.

Yet mass human unemployment results in a loss of purpose for much of the population (amnesia games become their escapism). Only those with financial resources can survive this mess mankind create to themselves. In that sense, perhaps nothing truly changes onward.