[chrbarrol]

I felt that one addition could be "Many problems have trivial solutions, but they are of little practical value"

0 is often a trivial solution to many PDEs, but it is of little analytical value, so it is often discarded. In the same sense death is a trivial of many life problems: Dying would solve most (all?) problems in life, but it is not a solution you would typically consider :)

[stabbles]

It all depends on the boundary conditions.

[goldenkey]

My boundary condition is fulfilling the categorical imperative of pure energy. For some people its the imperative of themselves or immediate families, or mammals or life itself. I still haven't figured out what the universe would like but I am at its service.

My best guess at the current moment is to extend the universe's life but the inevitable heat death if correct throws a wrench in that.

However if there is a way to create continuity from discreteness, and we can simulate our universe, we may be able to run a child universe to completion before our own universe dies. And if the same thing happens in that child, we will have had an infinite number of universes live and die in the finite life of our own universe. If that isn't a full life for a universe, I don't know what is...

This already may be happening if black holes birth and contain universes.

[smaddox]

> I still haven't figured out what the universe would like but I am at its service.

If you're trying to figure out "what the universe would like", you're going to be searching until the heat death of the universe.

> However if there is a way to create continuity from discreteness, and we can simulate our universe, we may be able to run a child universe to completion before our own universe dies.

This is ontologically unworkable. The sooner you accept that nothing will last forever, the sooner you can get to living your life and enjoying the things that are here right now.