RE: Thoughts on a multiverse/consciousness
February 14, 2015 at 9:15 am
(This post was last modified: February 14, 2015 at 9:16 am by Heywood.)
(February 13, 2015 at 9:09 pm)Surgenator Wrote:(February 13, 2015 at 8:41 pm)Heywood Wrote: Imagine the original poster of this thread dancing. If all of time exists, the original poster will be dancing for as long as all of time exists. He doesn't need a multiverse to do this dance forever. He only needs a single universe that operates consistent with B theory of time.
"Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion." - Albert Einstein in a letter of condolence to the Besso family.
Even though Michele Besso was dead, Albert Einstein was telling his widow that Michele wasn't really gone.....that physics leads us to believe that Michele's existence is eternal.
I'm not arguing about the physics involved. The physics your describing in not related to what the OP meant. Your playing semantics with his choice of words. He was asking if it is possible to live forever in his own frame. So far, science doesn't says no.
Of B theory of time is correct, we are all living forever in our own frame, provided you make the assumption that past and future you is still you and not some other separate and distinct consciousness.
