Food for thought.

  • DasFaultier@sh.itjust.works
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    13 days ago

    Maybe I am and it’s what religions call rebirth or life after death and in that case I couldn’t care less, but I do have memories of yesterday and the days before that, so I’m kinda pretty sure there’s nothing loopy going on here.

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    13 days ago

    You literally just asked me this yesterday. And the day before. And the day before. And you never seem to remember it. And the day before… Oh no!

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    13 days ago

    Philosophers have reasoned that if the universe is infinite, as it appears to some that it might be, then every permutation of all possible configurations of matter and energy will occur infinitely many times. Therefore, everything that happens now will have happened before, and will happen again.

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      13 days ago

      I don’t see how any utopia could make up for the universes where people are literally tortured their entire lives. Such a multiverse must not be allowed to exist.

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        13 days ago

        In the good old days of Usenet you could’ve found like-minded people on alt.destroy.the.multiverse.

  • HubertManne@piefed.social
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    12 days ago

    I mean in scifi someone in a time loop remembers the period and thus knows they are in one. If you don’t know you are not in one or at least not in one of your own.

    • AA5B@lemmy.world
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      12 days ago

      This logical disconnect is even worse than the time loop concept. There’s no logic for someone remembering from a previous loop and even less logic for some people remembering and some not

  • I mean how do you know if your memories are even real and you didn’t just get Men-In-Black flashed with the Neurolyzer thingy and that’s why you are a paycheck-to-paycheck wage slave instead of being a multibillionaire CEO like you used to be until you got couped?

    Or how do you know your parents are your real parents and you didn’t just get lost/kidnapped as a child? (especially before dna tests)

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      13 days ago

      If this is what I think it is, that episode still makes me think about the nature of reality whenever I think about it, which is a lot more often than it should for a show that old.

    • Crackhappy@lemmy.worldOP
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      13 days ago

      I was thinking of posting a picture of a hidden heart but the only ones I have are of my family being cute. So instead I offer you a small clue that you should please wake up. ;)