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[–] [email protected] 45 points 3 months ago (17 children)

Luckily, this is the epitome of that Epicurus quote:

Why should I fear death? If I am, then death is not. If Death is, then I am not. Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months 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] 8 points 3 months 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] 6 points 3 months 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 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Also true!

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