Thoughts on quantum immortality

[0utsider.]

Just curious on what people think on quantum immortality. Personaly i think it could be a thing but i really hope its not. Tbh it sorta scares me. If you dont know what quantum immortality is, heres what google ai says: "Quantum immortality is a thought experiment rooted in the Many-Worlds Interpretation (MWI) of quantum mechanics, suggesting that if someone attempts "quantum suicide" (a situation with a high probability of death), they will always survive in at least one possible timeline."

 

[WhatCouldHaveBeen32]

It probably doesn't exist, the same reason why reincarnation doesn't exist. Bioshock infinite tackles the idea pretty well I think , at least a form of it.

 

[LivingDeadTGirl]

How is it immortality? You would still die of natural causes eventually in all timelines.

 

[Forever Sleep]

I don't believe in it personally but then, I was always rubbish at physics. I just feel like the colossal amount of things that had to happen for this earth to have evolved the way it has. For life to establish itself here, right up to our individual lives. What are the chances of those exact things happening some place else or, multiple other places?

Maybe there is other sentient life in the universe but, another genetically identical version of me? I doubt it. Besides, if there is and, she's alive now, surely we have different consciousnesses so- already, we're different. Wouldn't we be aware of it if our consciousness was being shared?

 

[Rymrgand]

Does it even matters? If one of the mes from another timeline survives, then that sucks for them, but I'm going to be dead anyway.

Besides, I think that to do it properly, you would need to do some kind of weird Schrodinger's suicide. It's not clear if it would apply to shooting yourself with a shotgun, for example.

It's just a thought experiment. Interesting to think about, but there's no need to worry about it. It won't affect our lives (or our deaths).