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[-] threeduck@aussie.zone 9 points 3 months ago

You know how when you get put under for anaesthesia, and you don't notice the time you were gone? It's like a cut in the tape of life.

What if death is like that, and BAM your consciousness re-emerges billions of years in the future the moment you die.

But your consciousness is alone. And in pitch black nothingness. Forever.

[-] Famko@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

Entropy would end up taking your consciousness as well, so I doubt you'd be there, 14.3 billions years later, forever.

[-] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

We don't really know what consciousness is, so we can't really be sure that it is subject to entropy.

[-] frayedpickles@lemmy.cafe 2 points 3 months ago

We have nothing to indicate anything to the contrary (other than denial)

[-] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago
[-] Earflap@reddthat.com 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

This is what I think happens. You don't experience death, you just reemerge on the other side, no matter how long it takes.

The chances of your brain being created were infinitely small before you were born, but it still only took 14 billion years for it to happen.

this post was submitted on 08 Jan 2025
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