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Re:Psychedelics researcher approached his death with calm an... by nwiswell on Sunday November 05, 2023 @02:59PM (#38155003)
Can't we say, with nearly as much accuracy, that this life is an epilogue to eternity?
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Re:Psychedelics researcher approached his death with calm an... by dartos on Sunday November 05, 2023 @04:50PM (#38156007)
I don’t think so. Eternity, by definition, never ends, so this life couldn’t come after the end.
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Re:Psychedelics researcher approached his death with calm an... by nwiswell on Sunday November 05, 2023 @05:29PM (#38156323)
Mmm. That presupposes infinite linear time. By most accounts, "this life" bookends about 13.7 billion years of linear time, but how do we understand the state of things before that?

How could we understand the state of things once the heat death of the universe is a distant cosmic memory, and entropy no longer provides an "arrow of time"?

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Re:Psychedelics researcher approached his death with calm an... by ganzuul on Sunday November 05, 2023 @08:18PM (#38157680)
Everything we know about time is total order, but partial order is also possible.
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Re:Psychedelics researcher approached his death with calm an... by jareklupinski on Sunday November 05, 2023 @05:28PM (#38156315)
it's a stop along the way from infinity to forever

stretch your legs :)

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Re:Psychedelics researcher approached his death with calm an... by pdntspa on Sunday November 05, 2023 @06:07PM (#38156680)
Either case sounds like some fancy mental gymnastics to feel good about uncertainty. Much better to embrace it and admit, "I don't know."
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