1/ Living forever implies you get to keep all your knowledge. It's one long sample over experiences that you integrates into "who your are."https://twitter.com/generativist/status/1040262187137290240 …
2/ Are you who you were when you were 16? In an obvious way, sure. But, really, no -- "No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man."
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3/ The experiences you have and how you relate to them conspire to construct many yous over the course of your life. If your lifespan is infinite, are their infinite yous?
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4/ Not really, no. How the world relates to you is path-dependent. So is how you relate to the world. Your unlikely to jump to new territories in the space of possibilities (ignoring ergodicity). You won't put pins over the entire map. You'll mostly stick to where you started.
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5/ One way to explore more of what reality has to offer is by living new lives -- it changes how the world relates to you. But -- as people in the poll kept asking -- "do I get to keep my memories?" We want some continuity of self over discontinuous lives.
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6/ That continuity is another probabilistic constraint on experiences. If you desire to understand and know more about this world, then what you really want is discontinuous infinite lives that you can inspect in the in-between lives time.
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7/ Each reincarnation (for lack of a better word) is a new sample path -- a moment of your soul's attention. You explore more of the space in a way that you couldn't if you had a continuous self. But, outside of "life", the transcendent you can inspect all the lives -- the paths.
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8/ This is all a bit of fun. (I've been toying with writing scifi lately.) But, I like this as a mythos because it treats life as an uncertain adventure while it respects the idea that the world stochastically partitions experiences.
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9/ And, once that thought is admitted, it's a short hop to: do we have to reinforce those partitions when they do harm?
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