Admiral Patrick to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish • 6 months agoI'm a little sad that quantum immortality only works sideways and not also backwardsmessage-square5fedilinkarrow-up116arrow-down19file-text
arrow-up17arrow-down1message-squareI'm a little sad that quantum immortality only works sideways and not also backwardsAdmiral Patrick to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish • 6 months agomessage-square5fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareAdmiral PatrickOPlinkfedilinkEnglish8•edit-26 months agoQuantum immortality postulates that when you “die” in one universe, your consciousness continues in another. (in a nutshell) What it doesn’t specify is that your consciousness can ever go back to an earlier point in time (that you remember, anyway) Alcohol is great for nostalgia (e.g. “Hey, daytime whiskey, wanna meet my record collection?”).
minus-squareKairoslinkfedilink5•6 months agoNo reason why not. Doesnt it assert that everything is just random?
minus-squareBjörnlinkfedilink2•6 months agoYeah, your consciousness would actually really live on in the universe where you didn’t make that decision in the past. The trouble is that it’s not your your consciousness but another you.
Quantum immortality postulates that when you “die” in one universe, your consciousness continues in another. (in a nutshell)
What it doesn’t specify is that your consciousness can ever go back to an earlier point in time (that you remember, anyway)
Alcohol is great for nostalgia (e.g. “Hey, daytime whiskey, wanna meet my record collection?”).
No reason why not. Doesnt it assert that everything is just random?
Yeah, your consciousness would actually really live on in the universe where you didn’t make that decision in the past. The trouble is that it’s not your your consciousness but another you.