Ask Lemmy
A Fediverse community for open-ended, thought provoking questions
Rules: (interactive)
1) Be nice and; have fun
Doxxing, trolling, sealioning, racism, and toxicity are not welcomed in AskLemmy. Remember what your mother said: if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all. In addition, the site-wide Lemmy.world terms of service also apply here. Please familiarize yourself with them
2) All posts must end with a '?'
This is sort of like Jeopardy. Please phrase all post titles in the form of a proper question ending with ?
3) No spam
Please do not flood the community with nonsense. Actual suspected spammers will be banned on site. No astroturfing.
4) NSFW is okay, within reason
Just remember to tag posts with either a content warning or a [NSFW] tag. Overtly sexual posts are not allowed, please direct them to either !asklemmyafterdark@lemmy.world or !asklemmynsfw@lemmynsfw.com.
NSFW comments should be restricted to posts tagged [NSFW].
5) This is not a support community.
It is not a place for 'how do I?', type questions.
If you have any questions regarding the site itself or would like to report a community, please direct them to Lemmy.world Support or email info@lemmy.world. For other questions check our partnered communities list, or use the search function.
6) No US Politics.
Please don't post about current US Politics. If you need to do this, try !politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world or !askusa@discuss.online
Reminder: The terms of service apply here too.
Partnered Communities:
Logo design credit goes to: tubbadu
view the rest of the comments
I see it (or at least some form of it) as a realistic possibility. Let's say that consciousness is a completely physical thing, a certain set of chemicals, cells and molecules in my brain that define what is "me". That would mean that given infinite time, something that possesses "my" consciousness would eventually appear again.
There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1, but none of them are 2. Infinite time does not mean that everything (including your scenario) is going to happen.
That is by definition though. 2 is impossible to appear between 0 and 1. I know already that it's possible for my consciousness to exist and I don't see a reason to assume it's impossible to exist in the future. So, it becomes more like the Infinite Monkey Theorem. Technically, it's possible for my consciousness to not appear again, but almost surely it will.
With that in mind, you have a good point. Hard to imagine.
Math is such a wonderful example of how limited our brain is ;-)
Why not?
Yeah and it should theoretically be instant from your perspective. The whole memories thing would be weird like you don't have your memories or you have a different set. My scenario is I'm reincarnated as a space squid and life w normal space squid existence
But that wouldn't be you, though, just a copy of you enjoying life while you're inert. Right? This is the basis of the game SOMA, btw. 👍
Why wouldn't it be her?
If I cloned you right now, would that clone be you? If I cut her, would you bleed? If I fed her, would you be full? The same principles apply, just within a different timeframe.
Well no, but you didn't recreate my conciousness in this example, you made a new one using my DNA.
How could it be 'recreated', though? I cannot conceive it. Even if I copied your 'software' (memories, personality, all that seems to be located in your brain) and transferred it to a different body, that still wouldn't be you but two different entities. I think we kinda just have to make peace with the fact that death is final and that, if you want an extension, you have to dip into religion and the unknowable.
You recreate it by recreating it. There's no way death is permanent, because nothing is
That would make sense if entropy didn't exist.