Help I am afraid of quantum immortality

[samoyedlover]

I had an a car accident in 2018 that no one would survive. I broke all my 4 limbs and many bones . i had 15 surgeries and I lived with some disabilities.
Now I am afraid that even if I CTB correctly, my conciousness will jump to another version that survived and I will be even more disabled.

 

[Disabledfromjump7]

This has also terrified me. It have thought about it since I jumped and didn't die. This may be hell. :(

 

[RawRX3]

If it helps, there's not a lot science backing this approach, not that science knows all but more to say that outside of what we know there aren't many reasons to assume this is the correct interpretation, even reincarnation doesn't quite work on that level of specifics but should there be parallel universes those too should have you just as you are (more or less) here and so you couldn't just jump into them because where would they go and why would each instance be synchronized like that?

Again, not trying to force any interpretation, it just seems there's a lot of ways this could go and plenty of more empirically suggested or strongly coherent ideas rather than this one.

In the end what you believe is yours to decide <3

 

[yotaka]

This terrified me when I found out about it years ago. I don't think I really believe it, but sometimes I wonder. I guess the one upside would be that, once it became clear that you couldn't die, you could pretty much do whatever you wanted. Of course the novelty of that would wear off after a few hundred thousand years...

 

[yui.]

I'm a strong believer that even with quantum immortality, the human body will have its limits. A good example would be old age. Your body gets so worn out that even with an infinite number of alternate realities, you give out. You pass away in every single version of yourself and that's when you truly get to leave this world behind.

It's certainly frightening to think about and impossible to even test out what the true limits of our bodies really are. I hope you find peace soon.

 

[UserFromNowhere]

If it helps, there's not a lot science backing this approach, not that science knows all but more to say that outside of what we know there aren't many reasons to assume this is the correct interpretation, even reincarnation doesn't quite work on that level of specifics but should there be parallel universes those too should have you just as you are (more or less) here and so you couldn't just jump into them because where would they go and why would each instance be synchronized like that?

Again, not trying to force any interpretation, it just seems there's a lot of ways this could go and plenty of more empirically suggested or strongly coherent ideas rather than this one.

In the end what you believe is yours to decide <3

Yeah, quantum immortality isn't something we really have to worry about in my opinion. People may die from various causes—from suicide, from a heart attack, from falling down the stairs accidentally, and so on—but everyone will eventually die, whether that is by natural, accidental, or intentional death. It seems hard to believe that Socrates or Plato or King George or any other person in history, even those who we don't hear about in a history book, are still just living in their own quantum continuum.

I say that even as someone who likes to believe in the multiverse interpretation of quantum physics, the one where, no matter how improbable, every possible outcome is happening at every possible moment simultaneously. I think though that because some events are so improbable, the universes that branch out from the wave-function will often collapse due to insufficient energy dependent upon how far they deviate from the probable, with more and more improbable deviations not carrying enough energy to sustain themselves. Whether that implies multiple universes still exist or if only one universe exists, I do not know, I am also not a scientist so all of my thinking is null, especially as I would not even have the slightest inclination of an experiment that could be conducted to prove or disprove this idea.

 

[N@te]

I had an a car accident in 2018 that no one would survive. I broke all my 4 limbs and many bones . i had 15 surgeries and I lived with some disabilities.
Now I am afraid that even if I CTB correctly, my conciousness will jump to another version that survived and I will be even more disabled.

Why don't you test it? If you're ready to CTB, flip a coin or use a random number generator to decide whether to go through with it.

Suppose you have a good method with a 99% chance of success and a 1% chance of failure. You use a random number generator to generate a random number between 1 and 10, and decide if you get any number between 1-9 you will go through with the suicide. If you get the number 10, you give up and don't CTB, for the time being at least.

In theory, if you actually are immortal you should have a far higher chance of generating the number 10 and giving up, than trying to CTB and failing and crippling yourself. (Obv this wouldn't be foolproof, and whether it could work would depend on the technicalities of how quantum immortality works, if it exists)

I'm doing something kinda sorta similar to this, so I'll probably CTB within the next year but I'm not sure. Although a fear of somehow being immortal is not my only reason for doing that.

Yeah, quantum immortality isn't something we really have to worry about in my opinion. People may die from various causes—from suicide, from a heart attack, from falling down the stairs accidentally, and so on—but everyone will eventually die, whether that is by natural, accidental, or intentional death. It seems hard to believe that Socrates or Plato or King George or any other person in history, even those who we don't hear about in a history book, are still just living in their own quantum continuum.

I say that even as someone who likes to believe in the multiverse interpretation of quantum physics, the one where, no matter how improbable, every possible outcome is happening at every possible moment simultaneously. I think though that because some events are so improbable, the universes that branch out from the wave-function will often collapse due to insufficient energy dependent upon how far they deviate from the probable, with more and more improbable deviations not carrying enough energy to sustain themselves. Whether that implies multiple universes still exist or if only one universe exists, I do not know, I am also not a scientist so all of my thinking is null, especially as I would not even have the slightest inclination of an experiment that could be conducted to prove or disprove this idea.

Who's to say other people are? You only know your own experience, so it's theoretically possible your existence is special.
I do agree with you in that doubt this is the case, though I don't have much reason for doing so besides "uhh I feel like it isn't the case". I really hope we are right.

 

[Lamentice]

No one will take care of me as a vegetable, I would just end up dying from neglect.

 

[N@te]

This terrified me when I found out about it years ago. I don't think I really believe it, but sometimes I wonder. I guess the one upside would be that, once it became clear that you couldn't die, you could pretty much do whatever you wanted. Of course the novelty of that would wear off after a few hundred thousand years...

Not really "whatever you wanted" cause even if you don't die, you could still get disabled or get imprisoned and tortured or something

I'm a strong believer that even with quantum immortality, the human body will have its limits. A good example would be old age. Your body gets so worn out that even with an infinite number of alternate realities, you give out. You pass away in every single version of yourself and that's when you truly get to leave this world behind.

It's certainly frightening to think about and impossible to even test out what the true limits of our bodies really are. I hope you find peace soon.

If there is an infinite number of alternate realities it seems likely that in one of those realities a "cure" for aging will be developed