RE: eternal recurence
August 22, 2011 at 4:56 pm
(This post was last modified: August 22, 2011 at 4:58 pm by Welsh cake.)
(August 21, 2011 at 11:36 pm)darkblight Wrote: am i doomed to live this life over and over forever?Right, you're talking about reincarnation here, not physical cosmology.
The same existential problem may be addressed by clones, whether in this or another parallel universe, might have an identical make-up to you - yet still fundamentally they would be a different person with their own collective thoughts and memories. It doesn't matter if the universe rebounds on itself indefinitely, all the available evidence points to our consciousnesses ceasing to function when we die, they do not survive brain death. Its irrelevant to you and me as individuals to ponder whether the universe and the exact organic matter we're made of reforms in it or not; we're dead.
