On the meaning of life and the long-term merits of technologic improvement

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If the quantum fields that created the Bing Bang and our Universe are eternal and Bing Bangs will keep bursting forever (see https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1432165.msg17423455#msg17423455), then, soon or later (very later), there will be a Universe exactly like ours, with an Earth exactly like this, with exactly the same history, up to everyone of us.

And, following the rule that says that everything possible will necessarily happen, we'll just need to wait enough time, this will keep happening forever.

We'll be mortals, but will keep borning again on other Universes and Earths exactly like ours.

But, probably, we'll have to wait for trillions of years between each "reincarnation".

And we won't ever remember that we lived before.

The another "We" will be us, since it will have to be an exact copy to be us. And we are just exact copies of ourselves, since our bodies (all its atoms) are changed more or less on one or two years (see https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1432165.0).

It seems Modern Cosmology is saying "reincarnation" on an identical body can happen.

Of course, these are just theories. We have no evidence of a multiverse or that there are and will be forever new Big Bangs.

But the mere possibility that we are mortal, but eternal, has philosophical consequences.

If we are eternal, looking for meaning by trying to obtain symbolical immortality (by our deeds or kids/genes: see the OP) is less important.

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On the issue of symbolic immortality, let me quote this words of Miguel de Unamuno - Tragic Sense of Life:


“When doubts invade us and cloud our faith in the immortality of the
soul, a vigorous and painful impulse is given to the anxiety to
perpetuate our name and fame, to grasp at least a shadow of immortality.
And hence this tremendous struggle to singularize ourselves, to survive
in some way in the memory of others and of posterity.”

“We are more grateful to him who
congratulates us on the skill with which we defend a cause than we are
to him who recognizes the truth or the goodness of the cause itself.”

If a man despises the applause of the
crowd of to-day, it is because he seeks to survive in renewed minorities
for generations. (…) He wishes to prolong himself in time rather than in space. (…) those who win the
hearts of the elect will long be the objects of a fervent worship in
some shrine, small and secluded no doubt, but capable of preserving them
from the flood of oblivion. (…) he sacrifices infinitude to eternity.

Neither is this wish to leave a name pride, but terror of
extinction. We aim at being all because in that we see the only means of
escaping from being nothing. We wish to save our memory--at any rate,
our memory. How long will it last? At most as long as the human race
lasts.”

[Trading]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/worlds-first-human-head-transplant-successfully-carried-132553590.html

Take this news with some caution, this hasn't yet been confirmed by any scientific article.

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The irony is that meaning is an antropomorphism, it doesn't really exist out of our human models. This is even more depressing, actually.

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I wrote about meaning, but a lack of meaning isn't necessarily bad.

A life without meaning is a life without any goal constraints, where one can do anything one pleases with no wasting of time perception.

Time you loved to waste wasn't wasted.

A life without meaning is a life where we aren't slaves of any goal that we have to reach at any cost: is a life of freedom.

[JesusCryptos]

On the meaning on life, I have to remind everyone that the answer to the question about life, the universe and everything is 42.
As stated by Douglas Adams in the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.

[Trading]

We are a part of the Universe who gained consciousness. So, the Universe gained consciousness of it self thanks to us.

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One of the most ridiculous points some men try to make about death is that, if a man shouldn't show that he fears death, he should also pretend that he doesn't care for death, are willing to accept it naturally and with a sincere smile on his face or at least indifference.

One pathetic example is this interview of Neil DeGrasse Tyson by Larry King: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiI-34PNsXY

Larry King is the courageous and honest one about the subject. Tyson the ridiculous liar.

Even David Sinclair, who spent years researching antiaging agents and takes them, lies about the subject and says he doesn't mind to die: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOTS0HS7aq4

It's like saying he doesn't mind losing all the people he loves and even himself. He fears that a storm can bring down his house or that a stock-market crash takes his money, but if something takes everything from him, that is alright. Doesn't bother him at all. It's as natural as a storm. Carry on. No problem.

[Trading]

If you like the terror of death management theory, check any lecture from Sheldon Solomon. He explains all details like if everyone on the audience was a complete moron and so his interventions are understandable even if you sleep on the middle.

Actually, he will make you laugh a lot.

[luellahodge]

I think that sometimes even the most convenient and advance technologic improvements can be added to the enduring issues list, though. humanity should be more reasonable towards technologies anyway

[Adriane14]

I can safely say that a psychopass like embedded chip technology will solve this mistaken identity crime committed bias. Imagine saving the lives of the innocents and the man without guilt by just reading one's part memory and neural hue outside its privacy ofcourse. I mean the part when people do crime will be detected while the other part is safe and not scanned for privacy.