interesting post! i enjoyed reading it.
i am a data storage person by preference and all my years in the industry teaches me that snapshots are as natural as existing. in fact no self respecting application can be written without continuous snapshots.
so if i apply that here, then all your blank frames got missed but the ones worth remembering made it into the snapshot. our life is a intermittent set of snapshots that we care to remember.
i guess blockchain makes that possible in some way. but snapshots are not transactional. they are really summarized viewpoints of an infinite timeline. a window perhaps that is aggregated and crunched up into what we perceive as reality.
this quote by lewis carrol is perfect for the occasion:
It is a poor sort of memory that only works backwards!
Exactly my premise, @adarshh. We pay little or no conscious attention to most of the moments of our lives, leaving blank frames in the timeline. We may make a mental note that "I went shopping" and that is enough to fill a frame, but the details leading to that summary are lost, leaving blank frames. We end up with sporadic recorded memories interspersed among blank frames.
If we could visually inspect our timeline record it would look like mostly blank film with occasional images that clustered around more important events that actually captured our attention.
We may well perceive reality in summary notations but that still means that we are slow to synthesize and translate our inputs into coherent thoughts that are then recorded. We get much better when our adrenaline kicks in and we have contiguous moments of clarity that are recorded in living color. Imagine being able to remember everything with such clarity!