• AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    One thing I don’t understand about quantum immortality is what happens when you die of old age? We don’t have 3000 year old people on the planet. Eventually you’re going to permanently die. Right?

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      6 hours ago

      Assuming quantum immortality is anything other than a joke, presumably a cure for aging is discovered sometime in your life.

      You should also consider a solipsistic outlook, i.e., you are in fact the only thinking entity that exists, and the rest of the world that you perceive is purely a hallucination. Also, it’s possible that you only came into existence at this very moment and have hallucinated all of your memories before this point.

      All that you can know are that you are conscious in this moment, the future does not exist, and the past is indistinguishable from a dream. You perceive the world through your senses, which can be easily tricked or fabricated even by your own mind.