Submitted 2 weeks ago by geekyfitnessfanatic@lemmy.today to [deleted]
Somewhere, somewhen, there is a version of me who made all the right decisions and is living a truly great life.
And everyday I give big props to them, while just doing the best I can each day and continue making questionable decisions sometimes.
There are also versions of you who made all the right decisions and are still living garbage lives because no decision in their control actually had an influence on the overall outcome. These versions are far more numerous.
Quit the nonsense. It is plot armor
The universe seems to be as far as we know now physically infinite and homogeneous. That means all possible arrangements of matter exits. In any direction you can point there would be an atom for atom copy of the earth and it’s entire history including a copy ofe writing this comment as well as all others permutations. There’s no need for jumping to new universes at all depending on the nature of consciousness.
The universe seems to be as far as we know now physically infinite and homogeneous. That means all possible arrangements of matter exits.
There’s a couple assumptions being made here that allow for this hypothesis to be possible. We do not know if the universe is actually infinite, it’s just a possibility based on what we can currently observe (around 93 billion light years). Even if something is incalculably large, it’s still miniscule compared to the infinite that this hypothesis requires.
Secondly the universe is only homogeneous at a very large scale. The universe at a local scale is very diverse in its make-up, it’s only homogeneous at a scale of hundreds of millions of light years.
If we disregard these assumptions is it possible that there are near copies of our perceived realities in other places in the universe, maybe…but is it likely?
CMBR isn’t homogenous though within our bubble, how can we assume the universe beyond our horizon is the same
That depends on whether or not there was an infinite amount of energy in the Big Bang. Lacking that, you can’t have infinite matter (i.e. infinite copies and possible configurations) even if you have infinite space to put it in.
I don’t understand what you’re saying but I believe you
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.
Some options I know of:
Slay the Princess kind of goes in that direction.
Undertale is this but it’s not focused on too heavily unless you play multiple routes.
Deltarune I think has this kind of plot with the protagonist having an antagonist relationship to the player controlling them, but it’s more focused on player-made choices instead of save mechanics.
I would also like to nominate In Stars and Time, which is about timeloops and is very meta but not in the fourth wall breaking way.
Re:Zero kinda has this plot
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.
This is too real, I absolutely ate it once in a hotel shower all alone. I was stunned and had the wind knocked out of me while getting waterboarded by the shower. I don’t think I ever felt so helpless and actually started thinking this is how it ends.
I had a good friend slip in the shower, hit his head, and die. He was 27. Life can change abruptly in ways you would never expect. Be careful out there please.
I’ve been more careful in the shower lately, especially since ours is all stone tile. It’s got good traction, but I keep wondering what happens when people fall in showers–whether it’s usually a traction thing, or whether it’s significantly an orientation thing (due to temperature change, scalp massaging , head angle, etc. affecting blood pressure and equilibrium…).
Every time I saw a roadway accident in bad weather, I thought of it like something that wasn’t going to happen to me, until I had my own moment and realized my traction on fresh rainfall wasn’t what I thought it was.
Showers seem like the next “oh, that can happen to me” thing.
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.
I used to want to be immortal. Now I understand those who don’t want to.
Don’t have this in the shower.
The stairs, however, have probably done me in dozens of times. I frequently say “how have I not died on these stairs yet??” As I nearly slip once more.
The cat at the top of the stairs
ftfy
I think when a cat almost trips you they get to see your multiverse selves go tumbling and crumbling down the stairs.
Explains why cats are so smug too.
If you constantly are pondering how your stairs have yet to kill you, perhaps it’s time to do something different with the stairs? Like I know way easier said than done but even something like changing the railing or what they’re covered in might be useful.
Wouldn’t want your last moments to be you wondering why you didn’t listen to yourself.
Thanks, but theres really nothing to be done about it short of rebuilding both flights entirely, and I’m not even sure that would fix them. The problem is the way they are built; the stairs to the second floor turn a corner, and the triangular stairs in said corner narrow to the point on the inside corner that it drops immediately 3 stairs down if you miss-step, and the miss-step is like a third of the stair. Incredibly dangerous, and I hold the rails for dear life every time.
The back stairs from the addition just aren’t even. They all have different rise because they needed to meet into three already-existing floors - main floor, back door at ground level, and basement floor, and they had to turn 3 corners to do that. I’ve tried to math out a way to make them even and I can’t. I’ll still have substantial differences between sections.
It’s a very old house full of very bad choices that can’t really be fixed without major overhaul. I’ll probably hire someone at some point to see if they can fix it, if I can ever afford that, but I’ll probably bite it on the stairs well before that happens :) I’m planning to paint the quarter rounds with glow pigment to help delineate the stairs in the dark, and add some glowing non-slip tape to the bullnose, but thats about the best I’ve got, and it won’t really help that much.
I don’t walk up/down stairs with my hands in my pockets anymore. Seems unnecessarily risky, like running out into traffic without looking or stepping into the ring with a hungry lion.
The thing about quantum immortality is that as you age and you start running out of timelines, the circumstances for you to still be alive get weirder and weirder.
Imagine you are 90 and are about to die in all other timelines and the only way you survive is for aliens to show up with a cure for death.
I mean, shit’s pretty weird, though.
Yeah I went on a bender in Mexico like 10 years ago and ended a bunch of timelines. My bad.
I’ve been leaving behind a few more dead timelines than usual lately. deja-vu-like flashes of mistakes I’m concurrently avoiding AND making at once. tripping down stairs that i actually made it safely to the bottom of. catastrophic car accidents that everyone actually ends up driving away from unscathed. I see it flash before my eyes and divert my course… I try to tell myself it’s just experiential pattern recognition providing examples of what could go wrong, why to be cautious and take care. But… Yeah, this hits freaky
Read Anathem by Neal Stephenson. Fantastic book that actually hits that topic, especially near the end.
I’ve also had these.
Not always mistakes.
The one I had at the farmers market when I saw a flash and the entire thing obliterated by a nuke ala T2 was the worst.
So bad my wife noticed my expression change.
Had fun with that in therapy.
Having literally just now finished re-reading If This Book Exists You’re In The Wrong Universe, I’m compelled to ask if you’ve come into contact with any thick black goo that seemingly moved on its own?
Nah, I just have this nasty soy sauce that constantly leads to weird out of body experiences.
I also got some Mickey 17 vibes. Nothing over the feeling of your bones getting crushed between some heavy machinery while nothing actually happened. But yeah, it’s just “dreams”, alright? 😅
I mustve died many many times cause the universe im in now sucks
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?
Then who ever is playing this character is fucking dumb for even playing the game. Plz uninstall.
I’m an Orc from Warcraft II who keeps getting clicked on until I become self aware and yell “Stop poking me!”
How do I reload an old save. I think I messed up my build.
Unfortunately the devs didn’t have the budget to add multiple save slots. Your old save is long gone.
Sorry, that’s not an option but if you install the buddhism dlc then you can respawn with new specs. But don’t kill yourself to re-spec because I’m pretty sure you get significant de-buffs for doing so. Your best bet would be to just wander into a pvp zone and hope for the best.
So we’re all just save scumming bastards?
If my life is the result of my successful re-loads, that’s a really bad sign.
This is me, but for every slight inconvenience that happened to me. I feel as if I am responsible for my personal holocaust 😔
My dumbass was a bitch at cycling and nearly tried eating a headlong collision to make a crowded left turn. I had dreams about what my dead body would look like. This is seriously no joke
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. ❤️
Calm down, Jeffery.
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.
There’s no evidence for the Copenhagen interpretation either, it’s just the most conservative.
Did you respond to the wrong comment
Ah yes… The spiritualism of the intelligent. It’s different than religious beliefs, right?
Ah yes, the hubris of man. Cause we can totally prove logic works without using logic, right?
Which is more logical: some supernatural, indefinable thing or cold finality?
You can’t prove either, but one is foundational to shared delusions that drives commerce, hatred and war while the other is just peace.
No
Ever thought about the possibility that we are all moving through neighbouring quantum realities constantly but there was a point where the Mandela affect kicked in and a few full branch of reality was lost.
Like layers of collapsing realities as the consciousnesses filter out to ones they’re still alive in. Simulation is running out of wholly unique universes so it starts to let close enough do. Now we have to deal with Berenstain/Berenstein and people who have broken logic for this reality.
Like when I before e except after c was correct except it never was and entire generations grew up spelling words incorrectly
Don’t follow that to its logical conclusion, you are fated to experience the heat death of the universe.
It is more like an interstate with many off ramps: the road ends eventually but not everyone makes it to the last exit.
Who decides where the highway ends? There’s always an infitesimal chance that a branch continues just beyond.
There’s a short story based on this concept that I found awhile back: Divided by Infinity
It’s a pretty fun read.
Your eventual death of old age is inevitable in every multi-reality.
Except one multi-reality cured old age
it’s more like “one of me probably just died out there” for me
It isn’t always binary (dead vs alive) you could skip, 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.
My dude, you are just a cloud of random particles interacting in space whose unpredictable fluctuations have resulted in a structure exactly mimicking a human brain, complete with memories and knowledge of “the universe”
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.
Solipsism is real amongst the fediverse shit posters
Yeah, we gotta stick together.
Quantum foam makes me roam…
Quantum puns make me cum
I’ve parallel-universe-died like 4 times the past two weeks already.
Each breathe is a whole different universe. Each version there’s someone that just died last breath ago.
I had a few years where every time I was about to fall asleep I had that very immediate feeling of falling that wakes you up but it was 100 times stronger than I’d ever felt before. It went from “oh, I’m nice and comfortable and just drifting off” to “HOLY FUCK I JUST ALMOST FUCKING DIED” in less than a second, it was absolutely horrifying and took a deep mental toll during and for a good while after it stopped. I still think about it in the context of this post, just the idea of “what if all those times were some sort of universe switching?” (To be clear, not in a serious way, it’s just a fun philosophical thing).
Too real …
Anyone else read dark matter? This feels like that and haunted me for days after finishing the book
That’s not quantum means.
In a sea of infinite realities and infinite timeline jumps which is the original?
Varesti@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
I actually think about this a lot.
snoons@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Everything that can happen, does happen. Everything, everywhere, all at once!
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
I made a bagel. And put everything on it.
DmMacniel@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
And everything that had happened will happen again.
TootSweet@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I just happen to currently be reading On The Plurality Of Worlds by David Lewis.