>When you go back to this moment. Would you then expect to have the experience of remembering “the future”?
Yes.
>If the moment is different in this way, can it still count as the past?
Well, several answers here.
a) If it's the same in every other way, then it's good enough as "the past" to me.
b) We understand things as substantially the same all the time even though they've changed in small or big ways (e.g. we consider ourselves the same person as the child we once were, we consider a city to still be the same city even though new buildings have come up/gone down as time passes, etc.). So why not consider the past + that difference as "the past"?
c) What else could it be? It's surely not the future, and it looks a hella lot like the past. At worst, we could say it's a new divergent version of our original past.
(But how would we even know it's a divergent version? Nothing might have changed, our trip might be a closed loop, where we always were to visit the past -- that is, there was never a past at time X without us visiting it from the future).
Yes.
>If the moment is different in this way, can it still count as the past?
Well, several answers here.
a) If it's the same in every other way, then it's good enough as "the past" to me.
b) We understand things as substantially the same all the time even though they've changed in small or big ways (e.g. we consider ourselves the same person as the child we once were, we consider a city to still be the same city even though new buildings have come up/gone down as time passes, etc.). So why not consider the past + that difference as "the past"?
c) What else could it be? It's surely not the future, and it looks a hella lot like the past. At worst, we could say it's a new divergent version of our original past.
(But how would we even know it's a divergent version? Nothing might have changed, our trip might be a closed loop, where we always were to visit the past -- that is, there was never a past at time X without us visiting it from the future).