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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I love to read and I think people are endlessly fascinating. So my impulse is, "heaven, of course -- imagine what you'll find!" But, 'endless' as hyperbole and as theoretical fantasy are different.
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Relative to our brief time on this pale blue dot, there is infinite human variety, experiences, and biographies. Given forever though, how many stories blur into one if you could actually read them all?
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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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Doesn‘t eveything becoming dull given eternity?
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