Daryl TechnoSavage Seldon Of course we don't know, no one does, but someone guessing could be right.
Here's my latest guess and my guesses change with mood: eternal recurrence.
Since our consciousness is this precise configuration not just of our highly complex brains, but also all of the quantumly entangled matter in the universe, it will recur whenever a successive universe becomes exactly like the one we are in now. In between, during gazillions of universes that do not contain us, we will be unconscious. IOW, we will only experience the universes in which we are us, but we will not experience the time interval between our rebirths so to the conscious being, it's just an infinite loop of birth, life, death, and rebirth, life, and death. We could be on our gazillionth 87th life right now and it is exactly the same as our first life.
The take home, try to enjoy each moment as often as possible because you will essentially have to live the exact same life over and over again. So stop right now and create a single moment of pure peace. Say for the second, I will be in pure peace, and for all eternity I will experience this and be free, eternally.
Another message, kinda intuitive. Avoid suicide. Not because you can ever avoid your deaths, but because people tend to commit suicide after bad things happen and life becomes terrible, but if eternal recurrence is a good way to see things, that would be the worse time to end your life and start over, because you will continually relive an awful ending. Better it would be to wait till things get better and end on a good note.
Anyway, I'm not stating this as an ontological reality since I presently have no way to determine the likelihood of such a thing. Rather I'm presenting it as a way of thinking which may positively affect behavior and present affect.
Here's my latest guess and my guesses change with mood: eternal recurrence.
Since our consciousness is this precise configuration not just of our highly complex brains, but also all of the quantumly entangled matter in the universe, it will recur whenever a successive universe becomes exactly like the one we are in now. In between, during gazillions of universes that do not contain us, we will be unconscious. IOW, we will only experience the universes in which we are us, but we will not experience the time interval between our rebirths so to the conscious being, it's just an infinite loop of birth, life, death, and rebirth, life, and death. We could be on our gazillionth 87th life right now and it is exactly the same as our first life.
The take home, try to enjoy each moment as often as possible because you will essentially have to live the exact same life over and over again. So stop right now and create a single moment of pure peace. Say for the second, I will be in pure peace, and for all eternity I will experience this and be free, eternally.
Another message, kinda intuitive. Avoid suicide. Not because you can ever avoid your deaths, but because people tend to commit suicide after bad things happen and life becomes terrible, but if eternal recurrence is a good way to see things, that would be the worse time to end your life and start over, because you will continually relive an awful ending. Better it would be to wait till things get better and end on a good note.
Anyway, I'm not stating this as an ontological reality since I presently have no way to determine the likelihood of such a thing. Rather I'm presenting it as a way of thinking which may positively affect behavior and present affect.
Daryl TechnoSavage Seldon Also, if eternal recurrence were a worthy algorithm to put in place of death, it would not matter when one chooses eternal peace, if there is such a choice, as long as you do it before you die, it might as well be forever, because you will return to it infinitely. This is one of Nietzsche's suggestions. There may be more to it than I recognized. It doesn't have to be ontological reality, just a good way of seeing things.
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