New Evidence for Multiverse from Planck Scientist

[Agnosty]

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?

In your reasoning, you may not be considering that ALL possibilities will repeat infinitely.  That means it doesn't matter what you choose to do because you will do all of them (if it's possible and if you're causally determined - ie no freewill).

If you have freewill, then it's all moot because freewill isn't causally determined.  But then you have to explain where the freewill came from (ie something from nothing because freewill cannot be caused).

We can escape all those problems by simply dismissing causality.  There are no things, events and there is just the 1 thing and the 1 now, both of which last eternally because we've dismissed causality as ridiculous.

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When I responded to the part about a flash of light bookended by endless darkness, the me's I had in mind which would replace my 'light' weren't narrowly this me.  I was thinking just me's appropriate to their starting conditions.  So essentially me's in potential, but that's enough.  What difference does it make?  I wouldn't want a lot of memories and biases from a bunch of dead people in the past clogging up my experience, no one to come would want that from me.

It seems you're describing the player of all the parts as being you. And I agree. All the "you's" that arise, "you" will play their parts.