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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago

Also true!