Terrifying time loop: The man trapped in constant deja vu

Society still has a long way to go when it comes to blaming people for psychology but not physiology. In truth there is no difference; everything the brain does is physical at its roots. Even if you suppose a particular psychological phenomenon is purely emergent from self-reinforcing electrical patterns (a "feedback loop") in an otherwise unmodified brain, those patterns still exist in a physical form. Whether a psychological problem is caused by bad signals or bad substrate should be irrelevant to the notions of blame or stigma.

I once received a minor concussion in an automobile accident. I was hospitalized overnight for observation and then released. A couple days or so later, I opened my mailbox and there was a pamphlet from the hospital telling me what to expect as a victim of a minor brain injury. One of the things it said was that I might experience feelings of déjà vu.

For some reason, the hospital actually mailed me two copies of that pamphlet, a day apart, and so when I opened the mailbox the next day, I did indeed get a feeling of déjà vu!