A Song of Ice and Fire Theories: The Truth About Time

In general, for most of us "time" feels like it's moving, it "feels" as though we are on a continual march towards the future, and that the past exists as some vague place behind us. There is a subjective element to this, do we experience time as a judgment based on how we've learned to measure it, or do we experience time as a real sensation. This is important to understand as we get into how this relates to George RR Martin's ASOIAF series.
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I just want to point out that Norse mythology is based on a view of time as cyclical, and there are a SHIT TON of parallels and direct references to Norse myth, especially the myth of Ragnarok, in ASOIAF. How could you miss that out?

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In quantum mechanics, all timeliness exist concurrently

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Bran in ACOK appears to Jon while he's dreaming during his ranging with the Half hand. This is the first chapter that Jon is Ghost, and he sees Bran as a Weirwood before he sees the Wildlings host next to the milkwater. Then later, Bran remarks that he saw ghost in a dream.

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I think Bran can interact with the past but can’t change it. His interactions were always a part of history. And if that can be true then the future also would have to be predetermined

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No think him like a train driver. Just because there are paths it doesn't mean the final outcome is not entirely the same. Take the moment he rebuilt a wheelchair. He just altered the future with the past.

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I believe the future can effect the past. For example: What if we got a chapter in AGOT with Eddard Stark cleaning Ice, and he hears something that makes him say “who goes there?” Obviously what he heard was Bran from ADWD. There’s an amazing, complex story created by Treyarch which is the Aether Storyline. (CoD Zombies game mode) An event in July 4th occurs where (past) Richtofen, one of the characters, is visited by his future self (let’s say from December 5th) which (past) Richtofen has to give (future) Richtofen blood vials. This means that (past) Richtofen, when he makes it to December 5th, needs to travel back in time to July 4th and acquire the blood vials from his past (July 4th) self. Which would complete the “loop.”

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