cm0002@lemmy.world to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 10 months agoYou'll never see it cominglemmy.worldimagemessage-square69fedilinkarrow-up1365arrow-down115cross-posted to: memes@lemmy.ml
arrow-up1350arrow-down1imageYou'll never see it cominglemmy.worldcm0002@lemmy.world to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 10 months agomessage-square69fedilinkcross-posted to: memes@lemmy.ml
minus-squareFeathercrown@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up45·10 months agoLuckily, 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?
minus-squarelightnsfw@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·10 months agoIt’s not the death I’m worried about. I just don’t want to suffer leading up to it or put my family through some long drawn out ordeal watching me die.
minus-squareFridgeratr@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·edit-210 months agoWell good news, false vacuum decay would kill everyone on Earth instantly with no warning
minus-squarelightnsfw@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·10 months agoThen I’m not worried about it.
minus-squareFridgeratr@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·10 months agoSame here. Like, that would obviously suck, but 🤷
minus-squareSturgist@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·10 months agoI mean sure, it’d suck, but no one would be around to think it sucks, so it’d be fine 😎👆👉👆👉
minus-squareKlear@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·10 months agoHow to remove all suffering. Utilitarians hate this simple trick!
minus-squarethreeduck@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·10 months agoYou 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.
minus-squareFamko@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·10 months agoEntropy would end up taking your consciousness as well, so I doubt you’d be there, 14.3 billions years later, forever.
minus-squareilinamorato@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·10 months agoWe don’t really know what consciousness is, so we can’t really be sure that it is subject to entropy.
minus-squarefrayedpickles@lemmy.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·10 months agoWe have nothing to indicate anything to the contrary (other than denial)
minus-squareDyskolos@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·10 months agoWell, maybe it’s because we mostly fear the WAY towards death, not the end of being a thing that is. Unless we get hit by a moving train…
Luckily, this is the epitome of that Epicurus quote:
It’s not the death I’m worried about. I just don’t want to suffer leading up to it or put my family through some long drawn out ordeal watching me die.
Well good news, false vacuum decay would kill everyone on Earth instantly with no warning
Then I’m not worried about it.
Same here. Like, that would obviously suck, but 🤷
I mean sure, it’d suck, but no one would be around to think it sucks, so it’d be fine 😎👆👉👆👉
How to remove all suffering. Utilitarians hate this simple trick!
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.
Entropy would end up taking your consciousness as well, so I doubt you’d be there, 14.3 billions years later, forever.
We don’t really know what consciousness is, so we can’t really be sure that it is subject to entropy.
We have nothing to indicate anything to the contrary (other than denial)
Also true!
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Well, maybe it’s because we mostly fear the WAY towards death, not the end of being a thing that is. Unless we get hit by a moving train…