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Here I present my evidence for the eternal recurrence of the same, that effectively is a hypothesis capable of explaining why everything and anything exists. First I will present two premises that has to be accepted as true for the conclusions to be valid:
Premise # 1: That the Universe and the Earth has exactly perfect, and seemingly "fine-tuned", properties for us to exist therefore is nothing but reasonable and downright necessary.
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I agree. The Anthropic Principle, as this premise is called, is to my mind overly obvious and essentially unneeded. It's like saying A=A. It's tautological.
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Premise # 2: Consciousness is a consequence of physical existence. The Universe consists of a large amount of energy/matter that to any given moment is in a certain condition. The flow between different conditions is labelled with the term 'time'. Consciousness arises as a consequence of energy/matter arranging itself in a certain condition/pattern in a limited amount of time. Consciousness isn't more mystical than the sum of an individual's senses and cognitive abilities/information processing. Hence, consciousness is a natural result of an advanced sensory apparatus and an advanced brain.
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Again, pretty simple.
We are conscious, therefore consciousness has occurred. OK.
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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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Well, you're starting off your conclusion with another premise. If, as you say, the universe "cycles" infinitely, then fine, anything can happen, so anything can happen
again. But I doubt the universe "cycles" in this fashion (or any fashion, for that matter), and even if it did, the odds of such a recurrence are so small, they might as well equal zero. Murray Gell-Mann mentioned in
The Quark and the Jaguar that as an undergrad he was given the assignment to calculate the probability that his entire body would suddenly appear on the moon due to quantum tunneling. He actually came up with a certain probability, but soon realized that such a small probability was essentially the same as zero.
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Conclusion # 2: If, on the other hand, our Universe isn't part of an everlasting cycle, but quite the contrary is a phenomenon that has spontaneously arisen from nothing, it would have to mean that something/everything can spontaneously arise from nothing.
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You're placing an unnecessary constraint ("must arise from nothing") on this sub-premise ("no everlasting cycle"). From the looks of
Maurizio Gasperini's research into a Pre-Big Bang Scenario, there may be other possibilities.
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Therefore other universes can also arise whenever "they like", and the probability for another universe that has the exact same properties/physical laws as ours, to never arise, given that it has an infinite amount of time to arise again, must therefore equal zero.
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Well, I think this is the crux of your argument, and it's pretty good. BUT your conclusion that other universes
can arise is not necessarily true. We only know of one universe that has arisen. Based on this evidence, we could (probably) claim that other universes
might arise, but then again, they might not. We can't know for sure either way.
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Final conclusion: It seems very unlikely that none of the preceding conclusions are correct. Therefore, one must assume that the hypothesis of the eternal recurrence really is true.
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I think your logic is faulty here, but if you want to spell it out in boolean algebra, I might reconsider.
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...every single conscious creature for ever will have to experience its existence as an endless, uninterrupted stream of being.
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Uninterrupted? Even if another "you" arises in another universe after a humongous amount of time, I'd say there's a big interruption there. And even if "you A" is identical to "you B", the two are not really exactly the same because, living in another universe, you must be composed of different atoms. The
pattern could possibly be the same (probability = practically zero), but the protons, neutrons, and electrons would necessarily be different.
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The time it takes from the death of an individual being to the next time it incarnates, whether it is billions, quadrillions or a googolplex number of years, can neither way be experienced by that individual, since its consciousness doesn't exist in the timespan between two incarnations.
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So what's the significance of this conclusion, even if it was right? Very little, I'm afraid.
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English isn't my first language, so I can only hope that the text is readable.
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Your English is quite good. Welcome to the Board.