Alzheimers in heaven.

[John 6IX Breezy]

Schopenhauer regarded this as the fundamental problem of the human condition -- that we are in a constant contention between suffering and boredom.

I don't think he meant boredom in the sense that a lot of young people mean it ... that "there's nothing to do" that I'm interested in, when in fact there is, if you get off your ass and have a better attitude. I think it is based more in the notion that while there can inherently be no such thing as a totally non-novel experience, nevertheless experiences have much in common with other experiences and after a few hundred years of that, it will have insufficient novelty to be of real value. When there is little or no value in your moment to moment experience, then your moment to moment experience feels subjectively meaningless, and you grow weary of it.

So even in an infinite universe with infinite time -- maybe one can say, especially in that scenario -- the commonalities between current and countless prior experiences become far greater than their unique qualities.

I wonder how much of this is perspective driven. The alphabet contains only a handful of letters, but with those letters we can compose and express an infinite array of sentences. The universe contains a handful of different atoms, but those atoms can be arranged in perhaps infinite amount of ways to create all the variety and diversity of things we see in the universe. The ability of things to aggregate and recombine ensures that there will always be something "new" to experience throughout eternity, and I don't know how much the commonalities affect that. Sometimes the change in one variable is enough to give the whole thing new life, such as when you paint the interior of an old home, and the whole house feels like its new. Or how some people get a haircut after a breakup, and feel like they've started a new life.