>information is never lost, there is LITERALLY no way to destroy the entirety of your physical self in a way where you completely cease to exist
>~10^93 years from now when the last black holes in the universe evaporate, the quantum field fluctuations of what were once the electrochemical processes which resulted in your consciousness will still be around somewhere floating in an empty universe for-LITERALLY-ever, without end, as in counting nanoseconds in ticks of 10^93 years and ALWAYS having more time ahead of you than behind you
Your "self" isn't information. I can have all the information in the world and it still won't make "you" present if you're under an oversized dose of anesthesia.
Jeremiah Bell
Get back on the ride, fuckmother.
Christopher Miller
Deep time is a helluva thing. On timescales that make even black hole lifespans look like attoseconds, it's thought that quantum fluctuations could produce a new Big bang. The interesting point here is that our concept of "nothing" might simply be impossible in the same way a four sided triangle is-the closest thing you can get to nothing still seems to have a kind of intrinsic potential for change. It could also be that the net energy of the universe is zero and everything we see is just a transitory instability that will nullify itself on unimaginable timescales to a state of formlessness again.
But always back to the whys.....There's no escaping whys except inthe arms of philosophy,and all those answers feel like cop-outs to me.
Blake Bell
I get that a perfect clone, down to each subatomic particle, isn't the "me" that exists right now, not without continuity of consciousness.
But the perturbations in the fields of the fundamental forces that the particles responsible for my consciousness are emitting at the speed of causality every moment, in their current configuration which results in said consciousness, will float forever.
I mean am I being retarded or is that essentially a ghost being imprinted in the fundamental fields for all time?
Jackson Evans
The truth is "you" don't exist in the first place. Self is a convenient narrative device for behaving around. It's just like Gautama Buddha told everyone, there is no genuine self to be found anywhere on closer inspection of the bodily aggregates.
Asher Morris
You might be correct. I've considered the concept a lot.
I'm Christian, but I think the Buddha saw truths about reality.
Fasting seems to bring wisdom.
I wrote a conceptualization of our physical universe. I think the concepts describe everything.
>I get that a perfect clone, down to each subatomic particle, isn't the "me" that exists right now That's where you're wrong bucko. All those neural associations and connections will be intact. If it was possible to birth an exact you as you are now, all your memories and learned knowledge would be there.
Jackson Sanchez
The philosophical questions like why or whatever are pointless and masturbatory. Like trying to find a "reason" for quantum mechanics.
It's like "Gravity is just like this massive pull of a god-like being showing us how we need to connect together"
You are over-complicating and wanting to relate to such patterns through an emotional or romantic context. Similar to how people humanize animals or birds.
