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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Replying to @generativist
Fwiw, this is (one) completely authentic way of articulating the premises behind Buddhist notions of karma and rebirth, and (Hindu) Advaita Vedanta philosophy too (which is heavily influenced by the former)? Lots of Indian philosophy devoted to this.
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Is this your PhD field? I don't actually know.
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Replying to @generativist
Pretty much. I'm also looking at the way these ideas were received in ancient China, and their implications for theories of agency, action, and ethics.
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Replying to @simon_wiles
Oh wow. Yea, I'd definitely want to learn more about this!
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Replying to @generativist
It's fascinating and incredibly deep stuff (of course, I'm rather biased...)
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Yes. It's not my field but I can't get enough of aspects of it. Long shot, but now that I know what you do have you seen a copy of: Baxter, S., 2001. The Planetarium Hypothesis-A Resolution of the Fermi Paradox. Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, 54, pp.210-216.
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Nope, not seen it, but will read, thanks :) Makes me think of the Cosmic-Anthropic Principle (which I was convinced I'd invented at the age of 16 until I discovered JA Wheeler...)
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