On 1/15/2014 4:05 PM, Alberto G. Corona wrote:
So my advice to myself is: Play with this crap, but don't take it seriously. Since you CAN NOT know and will not know first causes never ever. Therefore all is a matter and belief.. So damn you, believe in something that offer a good teleology, at least compatible with the human psychology, or else, if you and your people take these suicide ad depressing theories you will have a bad life and your people will be driven to irrelevance (and, believe me, we are in this personal and social path to oblivion as individuals and as a civilization).
Good advice. I've assumed I was on a personal path to oblivion since I was about 18. But if you want to believe in a good teleology, one suggested I believe by Stathis seems nicest. If your consciousness is just a sequence of most probable computational continuations then dying leads to a kind of common state of oblivion and from there you may continue as a fetus or a snail or anything else which has very little consciousness and hence is near oblivious. So everythingism is a little support for the Hindu mythology of reincarnation. Of course one may object that without my memories it isn't really *me* who is reincarnated. But if there is a certain character or set of properties making up *you* it's pretty certain to be realized somewhere in the multiverse.
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