If the universe exists for an infinite amount of time, is death still truly oblivion and eternal? (hexbear.net)

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From where I'm sitting, it looks like death should not be the end in that case.

You can't perceive the passage of time when you are dead, so you're just going to experience dying and then immediate rebirth after the countless eons pass for that rare moment where entropy spontaneously reverses to form your mind again.

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[-] starkillerfish@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago

i feel like whats missing in this discussion is the effect of quantum mechanics on consciousness. there is some research that shows that randomness introduced by quantum particles can affect synapses, and theoretically consciousness. and I think that even on infinite scales you can't really get the same exact quantum patterns, they will never repeat, or else it wouldn't really be random.

[-] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago

Random things repeat all the time, though.

[-] starkillerfish@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago

for single random events that is true, but you cant consistently get patterns of random events. you cant infinitely flip a coin and get a tail every time.

[-] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago

There's only a finite number of events that would be necessary to make OP's premise happen (well, except for the consciousness transfer part, I don't think there's any rigorous basis for that). If you flip a coin an infinite number of times, you will get any finite sequence of heads and tails an infinite number of times.