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Except research conducted by men like Sam Parnia rules that out and shows that conciousness persists after death.

That's not what he showed though. What he was saying is that brain death isn't the hard on/off line that we think it is, and that in some cases, it's possible to restore some brain function in a brain that had been declared to have died.

Only problem is that even if the person is barely clinging onto life there's still the issue of conciousness being strong and present where none can exist.

Sam Parnia quite explicitly talks about "restoration" of brain function. He is not suggesting that consciousness exists independent of the brain, he's stating that he believes we can return consciousness to some brains that we believe are beyond that point, and the boundary at which the brain/consciousness "dies" isn't quite as clear cut as it seems.

He also claims that the experience of consciousness might not be centered in the brain, despite interacting with it, but at this point, he is no longer backed by research or medical experience, and is just theorising.

Which is to say, the research and experiences he talks about do suggest that our "time of death" and treatment of brain death as a binary yes/no situation may be incorrect.

However, it doesn't say anything new in regards to life after death, souls, or anything along those lines, and Sam Parnia's talk in these areas is supposition rather than evidence based.

Same as the rest of the fediverse

This is me too. Though I can generate an inner steam of words, those words have no audio qualities and are purely conceptual. They also come "after the fact". I'm thinking of words, rather than words being the medium of my thoughts.

"acting" your age says everything. If you're acting, you're not living authentically. And sometimes that's just how it is. But if you're aspiring to a life that involves confining yourself so that you can live on other people's terms, maybe you should dream bigger.

I think you have the wrong community...

Think of it this way.

"I went back in time to save my family" in an infinite timelines story means that going back in time spawns in infinite number of worlds that didn't exist before, in which the family doesn't make it, and an infinite number in which they do. And not a single one of those families is the "real" family of the person who went back in time.

The fact that the author choose to focus on one perspective in which it seems like the time travel has made a difference, doesn't change the fact that it didn't make a difference, and the family they were trying to save is gone. The infinite copies weren't "saved" from anything, because there are infinite versions that weren't.

The only way to tell a meaningful story in that situation is to create situation where the actions of jumping back in time alter the future of the person jumping back in time. And that means you either suck up the paradoxes, or you write a clever story in which the paradoxes are neatly accounted for before they ever occur (or you write a closed loop story)

Edit - Or you could tell a non infinite loop story, where a single universe is spawned by the act of jumping back in time. That still won't save the "real" versions of the family you jumped back to save, they're still gone, but at least it creates only a single version of them that the character can save.

A trans person is even more aware of how shitty a situation that is, which means, when they tell you their name, they're aware of the consequences and are telling you what feels appropriate for them. The best thing you can do is trust them, and follow their lead.

Invincible can't move between the infinite timelines though, and no storyline is hanging off of the important changes he makes those timelines by travelling through time/dimensions. He's not "saving" anyone by jumping through to another universe

Feel free to remain sus :)

Yep. And you'd be right to be sus if I used a new account with little history to make implications about another user

That's exactly my point! In an infinite timelines story, there is nothing that has special meaning over the others, making it boring, because it's all irrelevant!

We don't require email verification. There is no email. This seems to be a stubborn bug to iron out though, because I would swear the PieFed dev fixed it...