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The greatest gift is that this life eventually ends.
I'd like to be sooner than later, but it's enough already. When I was younger, I thought the eternal life would be nice, but after contemplating it through my years, it would be worst curse for me.
I thought that once, and then I came to the conclusion that if the universe is infinite and time is as well, our atom arrangement will almost certainly happen again in the future. Essentially creating a new self, that is not aware of its previous self, but has the same kind of consciousness.. As far as we can tell in an endless cycle.
Can you explain how that is responsive to the relief that this subjectivity gets to exit the stage?
I'll try. For example, our nightly state that forms a sort of split in our stream of consciousness is similar.
It's a bit like saying you are happy life is over when you go to bed, but in reality there's a pretty good chance you'll start a dream state which you might not remember afterwards.
Still, even if you might not remember a nightmare, you don't want a form of yourself to experience it. As you know in that 'now' it will be suffering for that version of yourself.
I think I might be self-specific psychopath, as I canβt gin up much beyond mild sympathy for some other instance of the self whose outcomes I canβt influence.
Could be, or maybe I'm the over-anxious one being too emphatic. But I can just imagine there will be a moment that I'm going to be that instance of self, which will experience the world similar to me.
Like it's as much me as the me in one hour is going to be me. As long as our chemical setup is the same, with (roughly) the same organization of atoms and thus having the same brain, I can relate as I know exactly how it feels.
Boltzmann brain is a trippy concept
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_brain
Thanks for the link, interesting!
Welcome back, Mr Nietzsche. How long are you going to stay?