RE: New Evidence for Multiverse from Planck Scientist
January 9, 2018 at 2:59 am
(This post was last modified: January 9, 2018 at 3:02 am by vulcanlogician.)
(January 8, 2018 at 7:21 am)Agnosty Wrote: I hope you don't mind my asking, but I'm curious... Do you see yourself as a flash of consciousness between two eternal darknesses? If so, then how do you see yourself really existing at all?
Similar pondering must have prompted Nietzsche's "eternal return" argument https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_...nal_return
If something happens by chance in an infinite chain of causality, it must happen infinite times. Anything that happens by chance, cannot happen only once.
I tend not to view the eternal recurrence as a metaphysical proposition. Rather as a thought experiment designed to show where the locus of meaning lies in life. Whether one's life is a one shot deal or perpetually repeats, the meaning of that life is found within that life.
Ought we not lead a life that we affirm? So much that we would live it again and again? What kind of life would that be? Don't look elsewhere for answers. Why not ask oneself?
You're the one who would have to live that life again and again were it to eternally recur.
The question isn't whether life repeats to eternity or not.
The question is: Why not live life as if it did?
