Major-premise: There is a 50% chance that your consciousness is immortal. Minor-premise A: There is a 50% chance that time is infinite. There are two possibilities: that time ends or that it continues infinitely. If you accept that we cannot prove either and must therefore assign a 50% probability for each then you accept this premise. Minor-premise B: Your consciousness is substrate, space and time independent. Sub-premise i: Substrate independence. If you accept that your consciousness can be copied onto a different substrate without losing integrity then you accept this premise. Sub-premise ii: Space independence. If you accept that you are constantly moving through space without your consciousness losing integrity then you accept this premise. Sub-premise iii: Time independence. Thought experiment: Imagine that your brain is frozen with every proton and electron held perfectly in place for a million years and then unfrozen again. You would resume thinking and not f...
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Did you write that?
It's an interesting thing nonetheless. I'm interested in, uh, 'comparing notes' for lack of a better term? I'm curious to find out who would write that, what kind of person and how/why, since it's definitely closer to 'seeing things the right way' than I've seen elsewhere. My concern, though, is that you've gone bonkers in the interim (post being dated 17 years ago), which tends to happen to people who see any bit of the void.
So yeah.