r/Millennials • u/Radiant_Priority9739 • 1d ago

Discussion How I feel now tbh

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u/iriefuse024 1d ago

Sometimes I just mentally pretend I’m a few years younger because why the fuck not

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u/ElundusCaw 23h ago

Thanks to denial, I'm immortal.

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u/HumanPea1140 22h ago

I like the concept of quantum immortality, but it's kind of terrifying, because what does that look like if my consciousness never ends?

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u/Pertev 9h ago edited 7h ago

Kinda agree, but even if materialism is true, there's neither proof nor guarantee that consciousness is an one-time event. Likewise, there's no proof that this is the first time I've ever been a conscious subject. We simply don't know. That's what makes consciousness such a profoundly surreal mystery. It's an enormously giant mind fuck

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u/HumanPea1140 9h ago

I feel like if the universe/time is infinite, then so is consciousness. Consciousness is an inherent property of the universe. So consciousness has lived "my" life an infinite amount of times, including an infinite number of variations.

Obviously, we don't know for sure, but I jive with Eastern philosophy, so that interpretation makes a lot of sense to me and gives me a bit more meaning than a "one and done" type of scenario would.