How do we stop the end of the universe, or escape it if nothing can be done to save it?
I am terrified at the thought of a conscious being experiencing the slow decay at end of all things, and I would do anything to keep that from happening.
It's time to begin the think tank, Veeky Forums, to lay the foundation for our salvation.
We could start a new universe. Some believe that has already happened.
Turtles all the way down user
Bump
The salvation is the heat death of the universe.
>I am terrified at the thought of a conscious being experiencing the slow decay at end of all things, and I would do anything to keep that from happening.
Then it sounds like it's on future generations to stop having kids when it gets close to the end of the universe.
travel back in time, to the beginning of the universe
Go watch PMMM, there is a solution proposed therein.
If the universe is a simulation, there must be a way for information to "get to the other side". Either we are the output of a program or we are the computation itself. If it is the former then there is a way to trascend the simulation.
If it's not a simulation it's still hopeless - however it may be in a physical form it implies many words - incomprehensible amount of branching for every single particle, and then u realize that the instance of the big bang itself is branched where the quantum fluctuations were sightly different resulting in future different positioning of galaxies less or more matter and so on - there's so much reality getting generated at every point that there's no hope for anything - it's just an eternal garbage / mess.
You only know a story. That story isn't a simulation because that assumes a reality you can know. It is just that the story is all you can know.
The narrative universe you build is a representation, made through recursion. There is nothing outside of the representation that you can know. But just because it is a story, doesn't mean it is not useful to be believed.
You recursed to this story your whole life, rejecting what wasn't useful to be believed.
The brain is a sense organ that senses itself, then sense itself sensing itself.
The story isn't real; it doesn't exist. The reality doesn't need a story of itself; it simply is.
It is the story, it is consciousness that doesn't exist.
Like spinning a weight on the end of a string, centrifugal force does not exist. It is simply the misinterpretation of the force holding the string together, and the tendency for the weight to travel in a strait line. But centripetal force doesn't need centrifugal force to exist.
You are just the centrifugal force that doesn't exist...