I once bit of a piece of sausage, quickly noticed it was too hot to chew, and decided in my infinite wisdom that the best way to handle this situation was to swallow the unchewed piece. It was too big to go down on its own, but whatever self preservation reflex kicked in also took forever to make it go back up, so I had enough time to decide I didn’t want to make a scene at the dinner table, so I had to force it down by swallowing more and more spit to make my esophagus move the right way again. Pretty sure alternative reality me chocked on that.
Almost impossible to make a series of worse decisions in my lifetime.
The thing about quantum immortality is that as you age and you start running out of timelines, the circumstances for you to still be alive get weirder and weirder.
Imagine you are 90 and are about to die in all other timelines and the only way you survive is for aliens to show up with a cure for death.
I mean, shit’s pretty weird, though.
My dumbass was a bitch at cycling and nearly tried eating a headlong collision to make a crowded left turn. I had dreams about what my dead body would look like. This is seriously no joke
This is too real, I absolutely ate it once in a hotel shower all alone. I was stunned and had the wind knocked out of me while getting waterboarded by the shower. I don’t think I ever felt so helpless and actually started thinking this is how it ends.
I had a good friend slip in the shower, hit his head, and die. He was 27. Life can change abruptly in ways you would never expect. Be careful out there please.
I’ve been more careful in the shower lately, especially since ours is all stone tile. It’s got good traction, but I keep wondering what happens when people fall in showers–whether it’s usually a traction thing, or whether it’s significantly an orientation thing (due to temperature change, scalp massaging , head angle, etc. affecting blood pressure and equilibrium…).
Every time I saw a roadway accident in bad weather, I thought of it like something that wasn’t going to happen to me, until I had my own moment and realized my traction on fresh rainfall wasn’t what I thought it was.
Showers seem like the next “oh, that can happen to me” thing.
The Problem with slipping is: it first feels somewhat grippy. But when you start to slip it’s suddenly like ice.
Have eaten absolute shit in the shower. I was young, in shape, just had a moment of complacency and slipped. Other than some bruising and scaring the shit out of me, I was fine thankfully.
My dad felt horrible and immediately bought sticky grip pads for the tub lol.
It can definitely happen to anyone, anytime. Be careful out there, eh
I’ve been leaving behind a few more dead timelines than usual lately. deja-vu-like flashes of mistakes I’m concurrently avoiding AND making at once. tripping down stairs that i actually made it safely to the bottom of. catastrophic car accidents that everyone actually ends up driving away from unscathed. I see it flash before my eyes and divert my course… I try to tell myself it’s just experiential pattern recognition providing examples of what could go wrong, why to be cautious and take care. But… Yeah, this hits freaky
Having literally just now finished re-reading If This Book Exists You’re In The Wrong Universe, I’m compelled to ask if you’ve come into contact with any thick black goo that seemingly moved on its own?
Nah, I just have this nasty soy sauce that constantly leads to weird out of body experiences.
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I’ve also had these.
Not always mistakes.
The one I had at the farmers market when I saw a flash and the entire thing obliterated by a nuke ala T2 was the worst.
So bad my wife noticed my expression change.
Had fun with that in therapy.
Read Anathem by Neal Stephenson. Fantastic book that actually hits that topic, especially near the end.
I also got some Mickey 17 vibes. Nothing over the feeling of your bones getting crushed between some heavy machinery while nothing actually happened. But yeah, it’s just “dreams”, alright? 😅
I used to want to be immortal. Now I understand those who don’t want to.
Crawling around a claustrophobic attic in a heatwave recently and I had a panicked moment where I decided I had better get out before hyperthermia made it so I physically couldn’t.
Pretty sure there is a parallel universe where firefighters are cutting holes in the ceiling to extract my rotting corpse from behind an aging air handler.
I actually think about this a lot.
Everything that can happen, does happen. Everything, everywhere, all at once!
I just happen to currently be reading On The Plurality Of Worlds by David Lewis.
Anything that happens, happens.
Anything that, in happening, causes something else to happen, causes something else to happen.
Anything that, in happening, causes itself to happen again, happens again.
It doesn’t necessarily do it in chronological order, though.
Douglas Adams
Impossible since “Nothing ever happens”
Nothing happens at all
Heat Death should be a cocktail at the bar at The End Of The Universe
I guess I’ll happen myself up a cup of tea
I made a bagel. And put everything on it.
oh no
And everything that had happened will happen again.
Quit the nonsense. It is plot armor
The universe seems to be as far as we know now physically infinite and homogeneous. That means all possible arrangements of matter exits. In any direction you can point there would be an atom for atom copy of the earth and it’s entire history including a copy ofe writing this comment as well as all others permutations. There’s no need for jumping to new universes at all depending on the nature of consciousness.
The universe seems to be as far as we know now physically infinite and homogeneous. That means all possible arrangements of matter exits.
There’s a couple assumptions being made here that allow for this hypothesis to be possible. We do not know if the universe is actually infinite, it’s just a possibility based on what we can currently observe (around 93 billion light years). Even if something is incalculably large, it’s still miniscule compared to the infinite that this hypothesis requires.
Secondly the universe is only homogeneous at a very large scale. The universe at a local scale is very diverse in its make-up, it’s only homogeneous at a scale of hundreds of millions of light years.
If we disregard these assumptions is it possible that there are near copies of our perceived realities in other places in the universe, maybe…but is it likely?
Most definitely. It’s assuming our current understanding is accurate, spacetime is flat and the universe is at a large scale homogeneous. As of now those are the main assumptions given what we know and what we can measure. Any stories we make about reality including science are at most our current best bet and nothing more. We can always learn something new that will rewrite anything we know currently. Like imagine we prove last Thursdayism is true.
CMBR isn’t homogenous though within our bubble, how can we assume the universe beyond our horizon is the same. We are but fish in a pond
It’s more so about scale. If you zoomed out far enough the CMBR is homogeneous. You can zoom in to about anything and it’ll not be homogeneous.
This map is covers the entire observable universe, it’s as zoomed out as it can go and it looks pretty rough in patches.
Edit: Oh, unless by zoomed out you mean beyond the observable
Yup, the observable universe shouldn’t be anything special necessarily. That is the universe should to on beyond it.
But the only assumptions we can make about the unobserved universe comes from particle/quantum physics, which we explore in an idealised form
There’s some gravitational drag that’s been observed that would really only make sense if the matter was being dragged by something massive beyond the observable universe.
That depends on whether or not there was an infinite amount of energy in the Big Bang. Lacking that, you can’t have infinite matter (i.e. infinite copies and possible configurations) even if you have infinite space to put it in.
When current theories say the universe is infinite they also mean an even distribution of matter in that infinite space.
And for something like the big bang, when theories say that the universe originated from a singularity they actually mean the infinite sized universe had infinite density at one instance, not that it literally came from one single point.
So there is technically infinite energy in the universe, but all that infinite energy is still experiencing entropy at on average the same rate.
I don’t understand what you’re saying but I believe you
Imagine you have three coins, there’s only so many ways you can arrange them in a line. It’s essentially that idea but for matter
I sometimes think about this playing video games, especially Tomb Raider. The protagonist never ever failed. From their perspective they must feel invincible. Kind of explains Lara’s cocky attitude.
Game idea: narrative focused crpg, with a relatively straightforward plot, but the protagonist remembers every time you reload and his every death, progressively tries to figure out what’s happening, all while trying to actually succeed the original plot because that also seems important.
Some options I know of:
- The Forgotten City
- Deathloop
- Stuck in Time
All good, but not enough fourth wall fuckery in those time loops
Maybe the closest that I know of so far: Rue Valley?
Just looked it up, there happens to be a 50% sale for it on steam right now.
Edit: I was dumb and that sale appears to have been because of cached pages in the search. Either that or the sale ended between then and now.
Returnal
Slay the Princess kind of goes in that direction.
I hear good things about it, but am not particularly one for horror, still considering picking it up at some point though
It is horror, but it’s also not horror. StP brings so much more than just horror, it has comedic moments, romantic moments, thoughtful moments, and plenty of WTF moments. And, how it all plays out depends on what you choose.
Steam has a two hour return policy, so I would recommend getting the game, and trying out the opening to see what you think. It’s not for everyone, but if you’re the type who likes to think deep thoughts about the universe like OP posted, then you’ll probably enjoy this game.
So more the kind of horror that Gothic is (thinky horror) than the more visceral type? Because I actually love the more Gothic horror that’s more about making you sad than scared (like Frankenstein), I just hate the feeling of jumping at shadows after a scary movie/game
It will definitely make you think, and feel. Yes, there are some gory moments, and some jump scare moments, but not many. It’s more about unsettling your view of reality type horror.
Undertale is this but it’s not focused on too heavily unless you play multiple routes.
Deltarune I think (I haven’t played it myself) has this kind of plot with the protagonist having an antagonist relationship to the player controlling them, but it’s more focused on player-made choices instead of save mechanics.
I would also like to nominate In Stars and Time, which is about timeloops and is very meta but not in the fourth wall breaking way.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5607616/
Re:Zero kinda has this plot
Not a game, but I remember a choose your own adventure style video series on YouTube where if you choose some early bad ends, the main character will start acting more and more reluctant to follow your choices.
Somewhere, somewhen, there is a version of me who made all the right decisions and is living a truly great life.
And everyday I give big props to them, while just doing the best I can each day and continue making questionable decisions sometimes.
There are also versions of you who made all the right decisions and are still living garbage lives because no decision in their control actually had an influence on the overall outcome. These versions are far more numerous.
Ok, but hear me out. What if the universe is the insides of a quantum computation doing a Levin search based on reversible computation? Aka every time you truly hesitate before making a decision you’re doing a quick-save?
Edit: oh, and it’d be lazily evaluated in this case
So we’re all just save scumming bastards?
Then who ever is playing this character is fucking dumb for even playing the game. Plz uninstall.
I’m an Orc from Warcraft II who keeps getting clicked on until I become self aware and yell “Stop poking me!”
How do I reload an old save. I think I messed up my build.
Sorry, that’s not an option but if you install the buddhism dlc then you can respawn with new specs. But don’t kill yourself to re-spec because I’m pretty sure you get significant de-buffs for doing so. Your best bet would be to just wander into a pvp zone and hope for the best.
Unfortunately the devs didn’t have the budget to add multiple save slots. Your old save is long gone.
If my life is the result of my successful re-loads, that’s a really bad sign.
I mustve died many many times cause the universe im in now sucks
Damn I didn’t realise other people thought like this
Bold of you to assume other people exist
As far as I know, there’s no evidence of the many-worlds interpretation, which quantum immortality relies on.
Also, quantum immortality doesn’t mean you can’t die, it means you’ll go to hell when you do. Eventually you’ll be reduced to a state where you can only think, with no way to interact with, or senses the world at all, making you dead for any observer who is not you. And you’ll stay in this state forever.
There’s no evidence for the Copenhagen interpretation either, it’s just the most conservative.
Did you respond to the wrong comment
I was sort of still thinking of this quantum hell thought experiment, and wanted to write about it. I should probably have started my comment with “I believe the interpretation presented in OP’s post to be false because …”
Fair. I mean, quantum immortality is dumb and wrong anyway so it doesn’t really matter either way.
Ran from a wildfire recently when the wind turned suddenly. In a few universes I am now BBQ.
Yet in all universes, you taste delicious to me. ❤️
Calm down, Jeffery.
