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Noam Chomsky's wife denies reports of death

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Life is such a bizarre thing. Billions of years pass in a universe beyond human comprehension. Then a baby is born and the spark of a person slowly takes shape. A few short decades later and that spark fades as the body becomes unable to sustain it. Afterwards, trillions of years may pass in this universe.

I wish our sparks could endure.

I wanted to merely thank you for your comment, as for ...

... reasons, I've been thinking much about this very issue.-

So, seconded.-

Great. The famous "desiderata downvote" ... :)

I consider myself an agnostic, but a fantasy I allow myself is that simulation theory is true, and that souls are real, which is possible under simulation theory, because it would allow for information about the physical world (like the physical structure of someone’s brain including memories) could be stored outside of the universe in some type of database. I’m not saying I believe this but just considering it as a possibility is something I like to think about.

If we're just a particular configuration, that configuration will have to exist again with infinite time and infinite universes.

If that holds, then it would be well to align ourselves such that we have a better chance to awake in a good place rather than a bad place.

Yeah I’ve thought along those lines as well. Almost like the multiverse is on a trajectory shaped by an infinite accumulation of decisions over trillions of years. And that would also provide a basis for a form of reincarnation ( if there is no actual data transfer then any past life memories would just be coincidental)

“A lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boots on.” - Terry Pratchett

Quoting Thomas Jefferson of course.

I was joking but apparently someone beat me to that joke https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/07/13/truth/

A missed opportunity to use the "The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated" quote.

If only he could speak. At least he's still taking nourishment.

Oh I didn't know that, I hope he gets better.

This doesn't need to be a post

Discussion/non-story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40721271, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40720876

Again with the denial https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodian_genocide_denial#:~:t...

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