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Re:Monday was my 46th birthday and likely my last (2013) by dash2 on Thursday August 12, 2021 @12:22AM (#28151884)
But presumably you've also then been living very different variations of the same script, since there have been infinite combinations of matter that were close enough to give rise to you, but different enough to have very different outcomes.

Also, doesn't physics and the Big Bang rule out this eternal recurrence idea? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uD4izuDMUQA

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Re:Monday was my 46th birthday and likely my last (2013) by morpheos137 on Thursday August 12, 2021 @04:32PM (#28161053)
For your first point I disagree. Once a life in a different aeon becomes sufficiently different from yours it is no longer fair to consider it you.

For your second point, I don't think physics rules out the big bang "recurring" because it does not deal with time before time. The big bang theory is not at all in conflict with cyclic conformal cosmology or eternal expansion.

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