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what donut said

hm

You'd be 3. If you physically 'devolve'.
But... a time-machine is supposed to protect your physicality from the effects of time-travel, so you'd be 10 and retain your memory too.
That's what a time-machine does, and I just realized that.

that would duplicate you tho, right?

You'd meet yourself, yes. But there would be no you in the future from where you came from, it'd be difficult to grow up to see yourself time-travel after 7 years.
But that means that you've already done it, and the 10 year old you existed even when you were actually just 3.

if you met yourself, past you would be creating memories that you didnt have, so you wouldnt be you anymore, would you? So then what makes you you? Just your DNA? If so, then you WOULD be you, but would you have those memories that past you is creating?

It's an idea from Terminator: Genisys.
It's the best time-travel shit I've seen.

lol

If you go back to the past, you're 10 mentally and spiritually still, but physically you go back to 3, them you continue aging, your mind and soul 7 years ahead

hm...

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Depends. I've seen different kinds of time travel portrayed. I don't know if there's an actual name, I'd call it meta-conscious and endo-conscious.

Meta-conscious is the most common portrayal, and that's when you go back separately and you can exist anywhere in time, even existing in addition to your past self.
Endo-conscious would be when you go back in time to any point in your life, but only your consciousness goes back. You would take control of your body at whatever point.

So, if you were using meta-conscious time travel, you would be 10 and your younger self would be 3, and 7 years later, you would be 17 but your younger self (before time-travelling) would be 10.
If you were using endo-conscious time travel, you would physically be 3, but usually it is portrayed as keeping your memory and all, so you would be mentally 10.

Have fun :)

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you would be 10
past you would be 3

no im saying if you went back so that there was only one you

10 mentally but 3 physically

hm, ok