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I see what you mean. That makes sense with the whole clone scenario. I guess it is hard to imagine ever being dead, since I haven't been dead yet. I was watching a video last night on TED, who rejects the idea of a cyclic universe...

Ok yes, they are in different universes in a different timezone, there is no connection. But imagine yourself in the previous universe saying that comment, then he(you) went and died somehow, but here you are, typing it again. You don't remember anything from that universe obviously, but...

That's not what I meant. I know there would be no link from this universe to the next, and you cannot perceive being born again. But I'm saying if there is an identical universe in the future, then death is never going to be the end of our life. We will always be perceiving something, not...

Yea but you have no perception of those bajillion years, so essentially the next thing you would perceive after dying is being born again as a baby into the same person to repeat the same life, over and over. :|

I really hope the universe does not repeat itself. The thought of living for eternity with no escape is terrifying! I can't imagine what it's like to be dead, only alive. So maybe our perception is always going to be alive, in this same body. But then if the universe repeated itself, how did...