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What is death like?

Probs like sitting in the car with grandma for 4 hours.

Kidding. Apparently a friend of a friend of mine was in the shower contemplating death so intensely that he passed out. Probably not true, but I like this story.

Also, as Dessi suggested, the movie Enter The Void tries to emulate the experience of smoking DMT (Dimethyltryptamine) which is apparently comparable to an near death experience.
 
Brian-M said:
Why? Just because something is infinite doesn't mean that it will contain every possibility. For example, you could easily have an infinite non-repeating series of decimal digits that never contains the digit 7.

Unless you mean if it can be produced by random chance, it may occur infinite times?

But your existing mind/memories at your point of death can't just randomly be reproduced in a new healthy body.
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We have been through his misconceptions about infinity in another thread.
 
punshhh said:
How do you know what it is that just is? or are you assuming that physical matter as described by science is all there is? Where's your proof?
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You have to provide the proof of any esoteric claim. Prove that there is something beside matter and energy.
 
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punshhh said:
Yes this is because I am talking to a human from a human point of view.This can only be an assumption, or can you offer some proof of this?
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Once again, you have to justify anthropomorphizing existence.
 
punshhh said:
"It just is", it just is what?
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It just is existence, it's not an entity that can care about the fate of humans.

I can't prove this any more than I can prove that there isn't an invisible pink unicorn living in my garage, but that doesn't make mystical explanations more likely.
 
punshhh said:
In that case 7 is not a possibility. Look at it the other way around, there will be an infinite quantity of combinations of any and all units, except those which are in some way impossible given the circumstances. I have proof that the combination of atoms which form myself at birth, can form in this existence. Hence it may occur infinite times.
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Present this proof please.
 
punshhh said:
I am the proof, given an infinite universe, I will reoccur an infinite number of times.

Whether the me writing this will be aware of it is another matter.
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You are proof of something, but not that. You are proof that your mother and father were very friendly. You have no proof that you will re-occur an infinite number of times, that is just a fantasy of yours. Unless you can prove it? How many times have you been here already? I bet you can't remember.
 
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punshhh said:
In that case 7 is not a possibility. Look at it the other way around, there will be an infinite quantity of combinations of any and all units, except those which are in some way impossible given the circumstances. I have proof that the combination of atoms which form myself at birth, can form in this existence. Hence it may occur infinite times.
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It's also possible to have an infinite sequence of numbers in which 7 occurs only once.

But let's say another "you" springs into existence in the future, one or more times. You wouldn't know it, because if you did, it wouldn't be exactly like "you" are now. You may already have sprung into existence dozens of times in the past, and you aren't aware of it.

I'm not sure of the point of imagining such a thing. If it's supposed to be comforting because it removes the finality of death, well, death will still seem just as final. If it's just speculation, then it's no more or less interesting than any of the other thousands of possible speculations.
 
punshhh said:
No need to worry about anything then?
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Sure there is.
Stepping in front of the 18-wheeler barreling down the road is still not a good idea.
Crossing against the light.
Contraindicated.
Tugging on Superman's cape, spitting into the wind..
Take care of yourself, and you -will die- when you can no longer live, not before.
But die you will.
 
Pup said:
I'm not sure of the point of imagining such a thing. If it's supposed to be comforting because it removes the finality of death, well, death will still seem just as final. If it's just speculation, then it's no more or less interesting than any of the other thousands of possible speculations.
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Ditto. Games of ''let's pretend'' get boring after a while.
 
punshhh said:
I am the proof, given an infinite universe, I will reoccur an infinite number of times.

Whether the me writing this will be aware of it is another matter.
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This cannot be true because of the hierarchy of infinites required. For you to exist as you do now, the entire universe (at least in our light cone) would have to be duplicated, and so on, and on. The same logic can be used to say, "If I exist twice, then I must exist four times and an infinite number of times." And the same argument, if it were valid, could be made for all of time and space and all the rearrangements of the same. Will you also ask that the whole charade be played out, in the same sequence, an infinite number of times?

You could set it up al la Godel with a dash of Cantor to see why this doesn't work.

"Infinity" is being misused here as a kind of hand waving, mystical, "don't take me seriously."
 
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marplots said:
This cannot be true because of the hierarchy of infinites required. For you to exist as you do now, the entire universe (at least in our light cone) would have to be duplicated, and so on, and on. The same logic can be used to say, "If I exist twice, then I must exist four times and an infinite number of times." And the same argument, if it were valid, could be made for all of time and space and all the rearrangements of the same. Will you also ask that the whole charade be played out, in the same sequence, an infinite number of times?

You could set it up al la Godel with a dash of Cantor to see why this doesn't work.

"Infinity" is being misused here as a kind of hand waving, mystical, "don't take me seriously."
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As it was used in another thread.
 
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