• can@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
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      1 day ago

      it always was for me, even before I learned about the thought experiment.

      So much is probability and chaos. I often would think “there’s a version of me that that went a lot worse for” and feel thankful.

  • Xyre@lemmus.orgEnglish
    11·
    1 day ago

    Wasn’t that Anathem? Collapsing realities until you run out of ones where you’re still alive?

  • maria ~@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    8·
    1 day ago

    is this… related to the stokes equasion thing? like the water is gonna explode? umm… no i don’t think so. oh well

    • Bongles@lemmy.zipEnglish
      14·
      1 day ago

      I think there’s this idea that when you die in your reality you just continue consciousness in a reality where you didn’t until your very last… Life I guess.

      • Bytemeister@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        9 hours ago

        Sort of. You have to exist to observe, therefore you can only observe a reality that you exist in.

        I kinda like the idea that what we experience as reality, choice, and consciousness is an “average” all possible realities. Free will exists because your sense of self exists across multiple realities, there is a different reality for each decision (or probability based event) than you make. When you make that choice, it prunes your reality from all the other possibly realities, and the infinite tree of possible future outcomes gets smaller yet again.

        I’m like this without any drugs at all. Don’t let your kids read pulp books by theoretical physicists. It fucks with their head.