ExitStageLeft
Experienced
- Mar 7, 2020
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The argument is basically an extreme derivative of the Many-Worlds Hypothesis, and it goes something as follows:
You cannot die from your own perspective, and you will eventually go on to become the oldest living person in the world. Others will perceive you to die any time such an outcome is statistically probable, but each time you do your subjectivity survives your cause of death through some random sequence of events, however improbable they might otherwise seem. 'You' are always functionally immortal from the point-of-view of the universe 'you' inhabit (though your body is certainly still subject to the vicissitudes of aging and decay), and you will eventually perceive yourself to become the oldest living person in the world, and, most likely, eventually the only living person in the world, straight through to the heat death of the universe.
This is... absolutely terrifying to me. I was in a serious car accident October before last, before I was truly and finally suicidal, and I walked away from it unscathed.
You cannot die from your own perspective, and you will eventually go on to become the oldest living person in the world. Others will perceive you to die any time such an outcome is statistically probable, but each time you do your subjectivity survives your cause of death through some random sequence of events, however improbable they might otherwise seem. 'You' are always functionally immortal from the point-of-view of the universe 'you' inhabit (though your body is certainly still subject to the vicissitudes of aging and decay), and you will eventually perceive yourself to become the oldest living person in the world, and, most likely, eventually the only living person in the world, straight through to the heat death of the universe.
This is... absolutely terrifying to me. I was in a serious car accident October before last, before I was truly and finally suicidal, and I walked away from it unscathed.
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