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This is strangely approaching Nietzsche's notion of Eternal Return of the Same with the caveat that he additionally speculated that if particles and their confi
by barberousse 7y ago
This is strangely approaching Nietzsche's notion of Eternal Return of the Same with the caveat that he additionally speculated that if particles and their configurations are finite, then moments in lived experience necessarily repeat themselves "at some point". This to him was the most gargantuan challenge to the Christian moral tradition since this eliminates any notion of Providence as well as the more general moral notion of "You could've done otherwise" since there's no value to considering timelines, not even from a "Best Possible World of All Worlds" sense.
- lurquer 7y ago>that if particles and their configurations are finite, then moments in lived experience necessarily repeat themselves I don't know much about Nietzsche, but this statement does not seem correct. One can have infinite configurations of a finite number of particles. The only way a finite number of particles would imply finite configurations would be (a) space is finite, and (b) space is not continuous. That is, if you imagine the universe as composed of discrete slots in which particles must exist, and the number of slots is finite, then his idea makes sense. But, is there a reason to think this?