I used to want to be immortal. Now I understand those who don't want to.
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It isn't always binary (dead vs alive) you are more likely to slip, fall and become disabled. How does that fit the quantum immortality?
As JcbAzPx said, you'll continue in all timelines where you're alive. No matter of how injured you are. Eventually, you'll be just a brain kept alive through thermal fluctuation. (Theoretically, entropy can spontaneously go down, the chances of this happening going down exponentially the more entropy we're talking about. Think about shuffling a deck of cards, and getting a completely sorted deck of cards. Certain at 1 card, 25% chance at 2 cards, and basically zero at a full deck, but still theoretically possible.) Eventually, you'll be a disembodied brain suffering for all eternity from phantom pain.
Quantum Hell.
Thanks, I hate it.
You continue in any time lines you're still alive in. Even if you don't want to be.
Relatable.
Ran from a wildfire recently when the wind turned suddenly. In a few universes I am now BBQ.
Yet in all universes, you taste delicious to me. ❤️
Ok, but hear me out. What if the universe is the insides of a quantum computation doing a Levin search based on reversible computation? Aka every time you truly hesitate before making a decision you’re doing a quick-save?
Edit: oh, and it’d be lazily evaluated in this case
Crawling around a claustrophobic attic in a heatwave recently and I had a panicked moment where I decided I had better get out before hyperthermia made it so I physically couldn't.
Pretty sure there is a parallel universe where firefighters are cutting holes in the ceiling to extract my rotting corpse from behind an aging air handler.
Damn I didn't realise other people thought like this
Bold of you to assume other people exist
As far as I know, there's no evidence of the many-worlds interpretation, which quantum immortality relies on.
Also, quantum immortality doesn't mean you can't die, it means you'll go to hell when you do. Eventually you'll be reduced to a state where you can only think, with no way to interact with, or senses the world at all, making you dead for any observer who is not you. And you'll stay in this state forever.
Did you respond to the wrong comment
Quantum foam makes me roam...
I mustve died many many times cause the universe im in now sucks
Too real ...
I sometimes think about this playing video games, especially Tomb Raider. The protagonist never ever failed. From their perspective they must feel invincible. Kind of explains Lara's cocky attitude.
Game idea: narrative focused crpg, with a relatively straightforward plot, but the protagonist remembers every time you reload and his every death, progressively tries to figure out what's happening, all while trying to actually succeed the original plot because that also seems important.
Not a game, but I remember a choose your own adventure style video series on YouTube where if you choose some early bad ends, the main character will start acting more and more reluctant to follow your choices.
Some options I know of:
- The Forgotten City
- Deathloop
- Stuck in Time
Returnal
All good, but not enough fourth wall fuckery in those time loops
Maybe the closest that I know of so far: Rue Valley?
Just looked it up, there happens to be a 50% sale for it on steam right now.
Slay the Princess kind of goes in that direction.
I hear good things about it, but am not particularly one for horror, still considering picking it up at some point though
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