> depends upon their experience being the same as a particle traveling at the fastest speed possible through its medium, no >
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
You're on track. It's grappling with the painful philosophical implications of hard physics stuff that makes me love Ted Chiang's writing
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
A lot of stuff, he's on Wikipedia. One of his most famous stories is Hell is the Absence of God
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Ooh, is that about the same concept? Because that's the worst part of the film's/story's premise, for me.
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect
As in, the film comes off as all inspiring and shit because from the aliens' point of view, the daughter is alive as well as dead >
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect
> since the time she was alive exists at the same reality as the time before and after. BUT this leads to a deeper, worse conclusion
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect
Which is that for every individual, every moment of pain and discomfort will exist forever.
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But if you were an alien you'd be enlightened, you wouldn't care
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
The difference between pain and pleasure wouldn't matter precisely because you would experience them at once and see their intrinsic link
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
Just like concepts like guilt and regret would lose their meaning
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