Yeah, and I'm not a fan of Buddhism's views there. It's not part of my cultural context the way Christianity is, but if I was part of a Buddhist culture I could well imagine a show that criticizes the cultural exaltation of this the way TGP does heaven/hell in our culture
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Yeah - the sparks are extremely important here, I think, metaphorical or not. The end of the self in this way isn't necessarily the equivalent of being the end of the existence, just the end of the particular arrangement.
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I can't tell you whether or not that's happy or optimistic, that's a personal question, of course. But it is a reassuring way to think about death itself, if you don't believe in an afterlife.
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Described like that it seems like a much "nicer" gloss on when fundamentalist Christians want to do something to get us closer to the apocalypse. What if I don't want the world to end, but to keep generating new things?
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A system of finite size can only generate a finite number of total results, even if that number is very large
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