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> There are endless curiosities in the universe. I suspect that people who like to say that they would like to live "forever" or think that they would be inter

> There are endless curiosities in the universe. I suspect that people who like to say that they would like to live "forever" or think that they would be interested "endlessly" in new things have not really thought through what infinity means. You might want to check Grahams number. And then spend a while thinking that even that number is not even a microscopic fraction of infinity. And if you still think you want to live forever. How on earth are you going to use your puny 100 billion neurons to experience, store and decide the order of experiencing and studying the endless Graham numbers of curiosities without at some point getting into a loop after you have had your brain in every single possible state? And when your brain has been in every possible state for say a billion times, you think it is not going to get boring?

Dylan16807 4y ago
...okay, but I can ignore all those very extreme numbers if I stick with the existing context of living on earth immortally, because that's "only" a few billion years. > And when your brain has been in every possible state for say a billion times, you think it is not going to get boring? I do think that, because if I'm back in a previous state then I'm not growing more bored.
rowanG077 4y ago
Living forever is not possible. And it makes little sense to think about it. You have to substitute infinite with extremely long in these kind of conversations. And even if it were infinite. A human brain most likely doesn't have a finite state space.