From where I’m sitting, it looks like death should not be the end in that case.
You can’t perceive the passage of time when you are dead, so you’re just going to experience dying and then immediate rebirth after the countless eons pass for that rare moment where entropy spontaneously reverses to form your mind again.
I didn’t say it couldn’t happen, I said a universe in existence for an infinite amount of time does not imply that it would.
But again, like I said earlier even if molecules spontaneously arranged themselves such that a replica of your body is created it still isn’t you. It would best be described as a clone of you.
I was thinking that maybe if it’s similar enough to my brain, it should just pick up my consciousness from whereever the fundamental of consciousness is stored. Like what happened the first time, right?
That’s assuming consciousness is fundamental to the universe and not some emergent thing, I guess.
I know there’s an acceptable margin of error here because I can place drugs, foreign objects, inside my head to radically alter the functioning of my brain without losing consciousness or irreparably damaging it.
IDK comrade tbh you kind of stopped making sense to me here. If you think consciousness is some mystical thing that transcends time, space and matter then you don’t need probability and thermodynamics to believe you’ll live again just embrace the mysticism if it gives you peace.
I don’t know what consciousness is, but I can be sure mine exists, and yours too probably.
But it seems pretty inherently mystical to me considering we can’t even scratch the surface of researching the how and why we have qualia and subjective experience seemingly disconnected from material reality.
Idk, I took an edible and wanted to poke Hexbear with the idea, it’s a fun time!
I’m saying that’s fine, if you want to explain the unknown with mysticism who am I to say otherwise.
I’m just saying if you’re using mysticism to explain the unknown you don’t need science just by mystical. Either embracing a mystical tradition that believes in this sort of recurrence or creating one for yourself are both cooler than pseudoscience
I’m not really sure where I’ve done pseudoscience, I never put this forward as explanation for the way the universe works, I was just considering possibilities.