Quantum Immortality Test

[Vap841]

I speak for my memory

You can’t speak for my memory

It depends. In certain contexts I agree with that, but in other contexts I don’t. I couldn’t get the link to work.

 

[The Liturgist]

You may say you are delusional


You can’t speak for others

I am not accusing you or any specific person of being delusional. I am saying that as a Christian theological principle, we can say that as a result of our fallen nature, the divine image in us becomes tarnished, and consequently we are mortal, and vulnerable to illnesses, which can include neurological and psychogenic hallucinations and delusional thinking of a psychological origin, as well as spiritual and demonic delusions.

 

[The Liturgist]

I like this! People don't realize the depth of the influence any sin has on themselves and on others. Thank you!

I don't expect that you mean to say that there are not other causes also, for those effects, however.

Well I suppose that would depend on the proposed cause and the specific effect. I have to confess I am not personally convinced in the existence of the Mandela Effect in large measure because I have not experienced any of the strange senses of displacement therein and on those occasions when my memory has proven faulty, the cause has been self-evident.

Quantum immortality itself is unverifiable and highly controversial in the world of quantum mechanics. There is a hypothesis however that if you performed the Schrodinger’s Cat experiment on yourself you would invariably not die, but thus far no one has volunteered to test that hypothesis. I myself think that, since it seems to lead to the most productive results, we should concern ourselves mainly with the Copenhagen Interpretation for the time being, since at present we lack any means of validating an interpretation.

 

[Mark Quayle]

Well I suppose that would depend on the proposed cause and the specific effect. I have to confess I am not personally convinced in the existence of the Mandela Effect in large measure because I have not experienced any of the strange senses of displacement therein and on those occasions when my memory has proven faulty, the cause has been self-evident.

Quantum immortality itself is unverifiable and highly controversial in the world of quantum mechanics. There is a hypothesis however that if you performed the Schrodinger’s Cat experiment on yourself you would invariably not die, but thus far no one has volunteered to test that hypothesis. I myself think that, since it seems to lead to the most productive results, we should concern ourselves mainly with the Copenhagen Interpretation for the time being, since at present we lack any means of validating an interpretation.

I suppose I should say the whole business is beyond me. The blending of physical science and philosophical speculations to me smacks of self-deception, double-think, excuse and the attempted normalization of the notion that science alone explains (or should/could explain) everything we don't currently quite understand. But I don't even know enough to say that, so... oh well. I just don't get it.

There are many instances in my life where the Deja Vu experience, or related-feeling things happen, usually the idea of, "I dreamed (or remember, or such) about this!" as I watch a situation unfold, though unable to predict the next item in a sequence, as it unfolds I recognize it as if I had actually seen it before. But why I actually experience this is so out of my control that the speculations, to me, should honestly only be assessed with a "who knows", and none of this mixed bag of chance (with the more mathematically rigorous sound of "probability") with "all possibles are fact" as if there truly is more than one thing that always happens, with clean scientific logic.

At present, to me, this sounds like just another attempt to make the unfalsifiable sound scientifically defined, with no regard for and no responsibility toward Deity. I hope I am wrong.

 

[JohnEmmett]

I am not accusing you or any specific person of being delusional.

Good because we’re not delusional


South America has moved east

 

[Bungle_Bear]

Good because we’re not delusional


South America has moved east

Lol. The South American plate is moving west, away from the mid-Atlantic Ridge but reality must be wrong because you "remember" it moving east.

With such a sensible argument I'm convinced.

 

[JohnEmmett]

The South American plate is moving west

I think the Earth is transitioning back in time


It may be a problem

 

[Bungle_Bear]

I think the Earth is transitioning back in time


This may be a problem

You may think what you like, it won't change reality.

 

[JohnEmmett]

You may think what you like, it won't change reality.

I’m not asking you about reality

 

[Bungle_Bear]

I’m not asking you about reality

That's true. You're making silly assertions about reality, then handwaving away awkward questions and obvious problems with your assertions.

 

[JohnEmmett]

You're making silly assertions about reality

Silly comes from Old English meaning “happy, blessed.”

 

[Bungle_Bear]

Silly comes from Old English meaning “happy, blessed.”

Indeed. It then took on meanings of "pitiable", "weak" and "feeble in mind, lacking in reason, foolish".

 

[JohnEmmett]

Indeed. It then took on meanings of…

Things are not as they seem


So you should be less confident

 

[Bungle_Bear]

Things are not as they seem


So you should be less confident

Yawn. Deepities and sound bites are all you have.

 

[JohnEmmett]

Yawn.

You need to master your philosophy of agnosticism


Then you will no longer have confidence

 

[Bungle_Bear]

You need to master your philosophy of agnosticism


Then you will no longer have confidence

You need to master English. Then you will stop making such foolish posts.

 

[JohnEmmett]

Then you will stop making such foolish posts.

I’m saying I remember a different reality

It is stumping you…

 

[Bungle_Bear]

I’m saying I remember a different reality

It is stumping you…

I understand that you have a faulty memory. Everyone has faulty memories. The arrogance of your denial is quite something to behold.

 

[JohnEmmett]

I understand … faulty memory.

…

 

[The Liturgist]

Good because we’re not delusional


South America has moved east

Not during my lifetime it hasn’t. And I remember the celebrations surrounding the end of Apartheid when Nelson Mandela and F.W. de Klerk shared the Nobel Peace Prize.