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Hi WhosInABunker,

My best, and longest, deja vu were during my teens to my late twenties. The longest one was during a complete college semester, and they sure help getting near perfect exam scores on memory tests and tests you can specifically prepare for. Even in instances without particular deja vu, an extra sense of memory helped with other memory tricks, and gives an added weight to reading Proust, while living one's own "In Search of Lost Time."

It also gives added weight to doctrines of predestination, infinite repetition, and with infinities of infinities, different frequencies of infinite repetitions of all possible permutations of events in Cantor Sets. But it does major damage to doctrines of free will, and gives hints of the inherent denial of the reality of the concepts of zero and infinity in major cosmological theories beyond the rote of induction. It even gives the clue of taking temperature, or other variables, as the independent variable, instead of always time ("The Thermodynamic Universe" often gets people expelled from astronomy clubs LOL).

Many Histories exemplify the volatility of opinion with such elements given to various philosophies, for example, as ascribed to Siger of Brabant, from Gilson, Etienne, ed. 1947, p. 564 "La philosophie au moyen age," Paris. 1947, in "The Age of Faith" by Will Durant (1950), page 957:

"Siger played with the dismal doctrine of eternal recurrence: since (he argued) all earthly events are ultimately determined by stellar combinations, and the number of these possible combinations is finite, each combination must be exactly repeated again and again in an infinity of time, and must bring in its train the same effects as before; 'the same species' will return, 'the same opinions, laws, religions.'"

Nietzsche placed undue limits on Siger's doctrine as an "expansion". (As listed in Karl Lowith's "Nietzsche's Philosophy of the Eternal Recurrence of the Same" (1997).

Maybe in the Modern Day, the gifts of Epilepsy and Asperger's won't result in the incarceration for heresy.

Tadzio

P.S.: books-dot-google, with a search there for "Siger of Brabant eternal recurrence", lists many books, including with "Tle Last Pagan" by James Westfall Thompson (1917) often free.