Imagine you were to live forever in a library that had books with the experiences of everyone who ever lived and ever would live. Is that,
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And, the part that inspired this insomnia-fueled naval-gazing: would you still be you as you kept reading? Like, imagine your brain stayed the same, you just lived forever. New layers slowly encroaching upon old ones as you mentally-simulated other lives while reading.
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Maybe that's why it would be a heaven. “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.” The stories may recur, but by the time you get to them, what you see and experience in their experiences changes.
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Anyways, I guess what I'm trying to say is human society is a massive, parallel search of this particular process rather than a serial one; life is a soul-forge; and, also, I like
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(self-inb4 something something ergodicity something something multiple chains)
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You ever read the Lazarus Long series?
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