I'm a fan of a sociohistorical view of reality; we have to study the past to understand our present day assumptions and where they come from, but that will always be tainted because we're _using_ present day assumptions to read the past... and all of this ends up creating the future. But still... as much as I hold the present to be supreme... and I believe it is - choice is everything - I think it's possible for multiple potential future selves to communicate with their past selves and give them "clues" on possible directions to go in, within a single lifetime. [I don't mean past selves like reincarnation - I mean like "older self/ younger self]