Okay this may seem off topic at first but bare with me...

There's a really cool series of comic books called Watchmen by Allan Moore. I highly recomend the graphic novel if you haven't read it yet. It's even studied by some university writing corses, a true comic book classic.

At any rate there is a character in this comic called Doctor Manhatan. He's a scientist who basically becomes a walking a-bomb, or at least that's the short description the comic gives.

The most interesting aspect of this character, for me at least is that he knows every moment of his life past present and future. This is beacuse after his "accident" he is in control of all the atoms in his body. Since all of those atoms have always existed in one form or another at every point in time, he has been at evey moment in history in which those atoms, have existed. do exsist, or will exsist. He can only see the events in his life, because his conciousness is controling the atoms, and before he was born that conciousness didn't exsist. Or at least that's the way I saw it, it was quite a revelation the first time I read it, reading this post reminded me of it.

~Atticis05