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Originally Posted by Kesh
I'll do one, for now. Sorry, but I have a headache. #-o
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Conclusion # 1: If the Universe we live in is part of an everlasting cycle, the exact same universe will one time have to manifest again. Granted that consciousness is nothing more than the sum of the organism's body, your consciousness/life will sooner or later have to be repeated in the exact same world history.
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If there is an everlasting cycle, you're assuming that the cycle is exactly the same each time. In a Big Bang / Big Crunch scenario, that's not the case. While the physical properties will likely be the same (C, for instance), the sheer nature of quantum dynamics indicates that the various events which led to our creation will not happen again. It's far too improbable. Thus, my consciousness would not be made again. There would be enough differences that it wouldn't be the same. More to the point, there likely wouldn't be an Earth for my consciousness to form on!
So, it's a bit of a leap to go from a repeating cycle to an exactly repeating cycle. |
I think the point is this.
Since it is an infinite cycling, sooner or later the same conditions arise and the same Universe is produced, as improbable as it might be.
The keypoint is the "
everlasting cycle", which leaves enough time to try all possible conditions and configurations possible.