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If you like existential dread, you might also like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28866558 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28866558. (I am become th
by sillysaurusx 5y ago
If you like existential dread, you might also like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28866558 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28866558.
(I am become the Amazon of philosophy.)
I don’t think any of us can accept finiteness. At least not without descending into a spiral of “But then what’s the point?” from which there is no escape without fooling yourself or abandoning the question.
- foobarian 5y agoI have come to believe in reincarnation just through argument by existence and limits; namely clearly we exist in this incarnation after however long, finite time that took, and therefore after death given enough time this will happen again and it doesn't matter how long that is since we're not conscious through it anyway. The bummer is that the state is not preserved.
- pstuart 5y agoA short read you might enjoy: http://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html http://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html
- jodrellblank 5y agoOnly saw recently someone pointed out The Egg is written by Andy Weir (The Martian, Project Hail Mary). Similar idea of being dead for a long time then reincarnated appears in the short story Divided By Infinity: https://www.tor.com/2010/08/05/divided-by-infinity/ https://www.tor.com/2010/08/05/divided-by-infinity/
- pstuart 5y agoI fell in love with the story when I first encountered it. I didn't realize who the author was for a long time (but it stands on its own).
- generalizations 5y agoThe idea also shows up as a side note in one of the Culture series novels.
- TedDoesntTalk 5y agoSomeone made a really good 8 minute animated video of The Egg: https://youtu.be/h6fcK_fRYaI https://youtu.be/h6fcK_fRYaI
- Koshkin 5y agoI will also need my OLED TV set when I am reincarnated.
- awb 5y ago> clearly we exist in this incarnation after however long, finite time that took, and therefore after death given enough time this will happen again Am I understanding you that you believe that because you went from non-existence to existence once you think it will happen again? Why? I understand reincarnation as a faith based belief (that can’t be proven or disproven) but I don’t understand it as a rational argument. Nothing in life I know of is destined to repeat.
- foobarian 5y ago> you think it will happen again? Why? Because we have infinite time available to wait. Of course it's not a 100% logical argument, this sort of thing usually can't be, but to me it's more convincing than just decreeing things like religious texts do.
- awb 5y ago> Because we have infinite time available to wait. Do we though? With a Big Crunch, the universe is destroyed. With a Big Freeze space-time is ripped apart. I haven’t heard of a modern physics theory that allows for infinite time.
- darkerside 5y agoAnd what's beyond the universe? "You" are only a ship of Theseus in its form for the day. I think what parent poster is saying is, something will come next. It always does.
- throwawayboise 5y ago> With a Big Crunch, the universe is destroyed. With a Big Freeze space-time is ripped apart. And then what happens?
- generalizations 5y agoIt's also thought that the universe exists in cycles of bangs and crunches. Not that we can really test that hypothesis though.