cm0002@lemmy.world to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 2 days agoYou'll never see it cominglemmy.worldimagemessage-square65fedilinkarrow-up1350arrow-down118cross-posted to: memes@lemmy.ml
arrow-up1332arrow-down1imageYou'll never see it cominglemmy.worldcm0002@lemmy.world to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square65fedilinkcross-posted to: memes@lemmy.ml
minus-squareFeathercrown@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up40·1 day 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-squareDyskolos@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·6 hours 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…
minus-squarethreeduck@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·20 hours 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-squareRadioactive Butthole@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-210 hours agoThis 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.
minus-squareFamko@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down1·20 hours 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-down1·19 hours agoWe don’t really know what consciousness is, so we can’t really be sure that it is subject to entropy.
minus-squarelightnsfw@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·1 day 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-up16·edit-21 day agoWell good news, false vacuum decay would kill everyone on Earth instantly with no warning
minus-squarelightnsfw@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·1 day agoThen I’m not worried about it.
minus-squareFridgeratr@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·1 day agoSame here. Like, that would obviously suck, but 🤷
minus-squareSturgist@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 day 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-up3arrow-down1·11 hours agoHow to remove all suffering. Utilitarians hate this simple trick!
Luckily, this is the epitome of that Epicurus quote:
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…
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.
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.
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.
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!