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[-] doctordevice@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago
[-] Chadus_Maximus@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Really? Do something to prove it.

Can you disprove the existence of God? That's the same argument.

[-] derpgon@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

I mean, you can try to kill yourself, and if you survive each attempt then you are quantum immortal.

But, this is my universe, so you probably won't survive in mine. But in yours, you'll be immortal!

[-] Etterra@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Of course statistically the odds of surviving through any given second decreases until eventually reaching a number so infinitesimally small that it is effectively zero.

[-] oatscoop@midwest.social 8 points 1 year ago

"Quantum immortality" is magical thinking for people that aren't comfortable with their own mortality. It's functionally no different than belief in an afterlife.

[-] Opisek@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

That is not true. Quantum immortality does not mean you will live forever. It means that whenever there's a non-zero chance of surviving something, you will do so. At one point you will die in all conceivable universes, at which point your consciousness is finally gone.

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