Quantum Immortality Test

[FrumiousBandersnatch]

The function of myth is to speak the truth

Star Trek isn't myth, it's Hollywood fantasy.

I recommend this tutorial video on Open-mindedness.

 

[Bungle_Bear]

There is, of course, also the question of what happens to the person whose position you take. If JohnEmmett has jumped to this reality, where has the JohnEmmett from this reality gone?

 

[FrumiousBandersnatch]

There is, of course, also the question of what happens to the person whose position you take. If JohnEmmett has jumped to this reality, where has the JohnEmmett from this reality gone?

It's a straight swap, of course... This nonsense is just a kind of 'Last Thursdayism' in a wrapper of pseudoscience. It's a perversion of the multiverse - you could, with equal justification, extend it to every tiny memory lapse and/or error you make, so that everything that isn't perfect in your life is not your fault but the result of an unfortunate timeline switch. Ultimately it leads to a self-centered view of life as a victim; fatalistic, meaningless, and random.

 

[JohnEmmett]

where has the JohnEmmett from this reality gone?

Star Trek answers these questions

 

[Bungle_Bear]

Star Trek answers these questions

Really? Then you'll have no problem putting the answer in your own words.

 

[Bungle_Bear]

It's a straight swap, of course... This nonsense is just a kind of 'Last Thursdayism' in a wrapper of pseudoscience. It's a perversion of the multiverse - you could, with equal justification, extend it to every tiny memory lapse and/or error you make, so that everything that isn't perfect in your life is not your fault but the result of an unfortunate timeline switch. Ultimately it leads to a self-centered view of life as a victim; fatalistic, meaningless, and random.

Indeed. It's either a straight swap or a game of musical chairs. That's obviously a far more satisfactory answer than fallible memory.

 

[Kylie]

Star Trek answers these questions

No it doesn't. Star Trek is a story. Do not get your science education from 1990s sci fi television. There's a lot in Star Trek that is just wrong.

 

[Bungle_Bear]

No it doesn't. Star Trek is a story. Do not get your science education from 1990s sci fi television. There's a lot in Star Trek that is just wrong.

Say it ain't so!

 

[JohnEmmett]

No it doesn't. Star Trek is a story. Do not get your science education from 1990s sci fi television. There's a lot in Star Trek that is just wrong.

Definition of miss the forest for the trees

to not understand or appreciate a larger situation, problem, etc., because one is considering only a few parts of it.

 

[Kylie]

Definition of miss the forest for the trees

to not understand or appreciate a larger situation, problem, etc., because one is considering only a few parts of it.

A few parts of it? Your entire argument was, "It must be true because I saw it in an episode of Star Trek once." It wasn't just a few parts, it was the WHOLE part.

 

[JohnEmmett]

A few parts of it? Your entire argument was, "It must be true because I saw it in an episode of Star Trek once."

Read this article if you want to know my entire argument
Quantum Immortality

 

[FrumiousBandersnatch]

Read this article if you want to know my entire argument
Quantum Immortality

Instead of reading error-strewn clickbait pop-sci articles by non-scientists, try reading or listening to scientists that know what they're talking about. If you're going to take an interest in an idea like quantum immortality, at least make the effort to find out what it's really about.

 

[JohnEmmett]

at least make the effort to find out what it's really about.

Truth is easier to find than you seem to think

 

[JohnEmmett]

Instead of reading error-strewn clickbait pop-sci articles by non-scientists, try reading or listening to scientists that know what they're talking about.

Science is a history of ideas once ridiculed

 

[Kylie]

Science is a history of ideas once ridiculed

Ah, yes, the old, "They laughed at Galileo, and he was proven to be right, therefore, since they are laughing at me, I'll be proven right too!"

Remember, they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

 

[JohnEmmett]

Really? Then you'll have no problem putting the answer in your own words.

Sometimes I feel not myself


Perhaps because I shifted

 

[FrumiousBandersnatch]

Science is a history of ideas once ridiculed

Probably in large part because it's a history of ideas misrepresented by the media and misunderstood by the general population.

 

[FrumiousBandersnatch]

Sometimes I feel not myself

Perhaps because I shifted

Almost certainly not. There are a large number of known physiological and psychological ways by which you can feel 'not yourself' without throwing out known physics and invoking science-fantasy.

 

[JohnEmmett]

without throwing out known physics and invoking science-fantasy.

you are just skeptical

 

[FrumiousBandersnatch]

you are just skeptical

Yes, with good reason, as explained. Well spotted.

I refer you to the video on open-mindedness: