RE: Thoughts on a multiverse/consciousness
February 13, 2015 at 12:40 pm
(This post was last modified: February 13, 2015 at 12:41 pm by Faith No More.)
(February 13, 2015 at 11:45 am)whateverist Wrote: I've certainly heard that before but I've never found it very likely. The counting numbers are also infinite but, go as far as you like, you'll never find the number 3 again no matter how far past 4 you go.
True, and I don't think in an infinite amount of realities any of them would actually be you.
But think of it this way, there are many, many parameters that led to you becoming you - DNA, experience, the experiences of your ancestors, and so on - that each have a probability of coming into existence. With an infinite amount of universe springing up(which would bring up an infinite set of parameters), it would be inevitable that eventually a universe with parameters that played out in a nearly identical manner to this one would pop up. It wouldn't be "you," but someone nearly identical to you would exist.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
