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Assumptions:
1. Time has no beginning -- Big Bangs and Big Crunches follow each other infinitely
2. Each time it occurs, there is a different initial configuration of the universe in terms of its matter placement
If this is true, then is reincarnation, by definition, inevitable? The atoms of my body have existed for at least 13.7 billion years, and yet I felt nothing because I hadn't been born yet. But that's an awfully long time to wait just for the chance to assemble into a sentient lifeform.
At any rate, those long periods of nonexistence feel like nothing to the nonexistent (just ask patients who wake up from year-long comas). Would it then be true that if we die, there is a chance we may not be dead forever? If the Big Crunch occurs, followed by yet another Big Bang, eventually -- after some arbitrary number of Bangs/Crunches, we will assemble again as some other sentient lifeform. It may not be the same lifeform, but a lifeform nevertheless.
But, taking it even further, if this is indeed an infinite process, then it implies that eventually we will live out our lives at some point again in the future (even if it's slightly different/arbitrarily close to this current life).
What do you guys think of this?
1. Time has no beginning -- Big Bangs and Big Crunches follow each other infinitely
2. Each time it occurs, there is a different initial configuration of the universe in terms of its matter placement
If this is true, then is reincarnation, by definition, inevitable? The atoms of my body have existed for at least 13.7 billion years, and yet I felt nothing because I hadn't been born yet. But that's an awfully long time to wait just for the chance to assemble into a sentient lifeform.
At any rate, those long periods of nonexistence feel like nothing to the nonexistent (just ask patients who wake up from year-long comas). Would it then be true that if we die, there is a chance we may not be dead forever? If the Big Crunch occurs, followed by yet another Big Bang, eventually -- after some arbitrary number of Bangs/Crunches, we will assemble again as some other sentient lifeform. It may not be the same lifeform, but a lifeform nevertheless.
But, taking it even further, if this is indeed an infinite process, then it implies that eventually we will live out our lives at some point again in the future (even if it's slightly different/arbitrarily close to this current life).
What do you guys think of this?