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0utsider.

0utsider.

I'll just make my own world
May 16, 2024
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Just curious on what people think on quantum immortality. Personaly i think it could be a thing but i really hope its not. Tbh it sorta scares me. If you dont know what quantum immortality is, heres what google ai says: "Quantum immortality is a thought experiment rooted in the Many-Worlds Interpretation (MWI) of quantum mechanics, suggesting that if someone attempts "quantum suicide" (a situation with a high probability of death), they will always survive in at least one possible timeline."
 
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WhatCouldHaveBeen32

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Oct 12, 2024
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It probably doesn't exist, the same reason why reincarnation doesn't exist. Bioshock infinite tackles the idea pretty well I think , at least a form of it.
 
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LivingDeadTGirl

LivingDeadTGirl

crawl on me, sink into me...
Feb 10, 2025
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How is it immortality? You would still die of natural causes eventually in all timelines.
 
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Forever Sleep

Earned it we have...
May 4, 2022
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I don't believe in it personally but then, I was always rubbish at physics. I just feel like the colossal amount of things that had to happen for this earth to have evolved the way it has. For life to establish itself here, right up to our individual lives. What are the chances of those exact things happening some place else or, multiple other places?

Maybe there is other sentient life in the universe but, another genetically identical version of me? I doubt it. Besides, if there is and, she's alive now, surely we have different consciousnesses so- already, we're different. Wouldn't we be aware of it if our consciousness was being shared?
 
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Rymrgand

Rymrgand

From now on, there will be no more darkness
Jan 5, 2025
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Does it even matters? If one of the mes from another timeline survives, then that sucks for them, but I'm going to be dead anyway.

Besides, I think that to do it properly, you would need to do some kind of weird Schrodinger's suicide. It's not clear if it would apply to shooting yourself with a shotgun, for example.

It's just a thought experiment. Interesting to think about, but there's no need to worry about it. It won't affect our lives (or our deaths).
 
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NeverHis

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Jan 14, 2024
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Honestly? My worst nightmare.
I hope it's not real, but if it is, it just proves that the universe is cruel and one shouldn't put souls in to this.
 
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Nov 5, 2023
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I have wrestled with the idea of eternal recurrence that basically forwards the idea that even if we successfully die, we will be "reborn" eventually as mass-energy recoalesces into a singularity again, and repeats the big bang, thus starting a new universe with new possibilities. The assumption here is that because matter can not be created nor destroyed, it can't really go anywhere except gravitate back into itself (Big Crunch Scenario) and start the cycle anew. If we then factor the concept of a googolplex, then we can assume that given an infinite amount of time, all possible scenarios of existence have played out, are playing out now, and will play out again indefinitely.

This all requires thinking outside of the standard model of physics though, so unless you challenge some of the fundamental assumptions of it, this line of thinking doesn't mean much. It's still something I hate having to face because I don't like the idea that my suffering's end will not be final and there may be another version of me that I will never be aware of who will suffer the same, or possible worse than I am currently. Perhaps, it may play out more favorable to that version of me and they will be happy and successful in life, but of course non of that matters to me in the here and now.

Related is the Nietzschean concept of "Amor Fati" or "Love of one's fate", but this concept only makes sense for those who want to live the lives they're currently in. Otherwise the idea must accept that some will suffer eternally, over and over again, and catching the bus will just bring them back to the original station eventually. This is not a fate I could ever love, and thus I choose to reject it to avoid having to think of suffering this all again.
 
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