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by LeifCarrotson 2074 days ago
A goal of remembering absolutely everything using infinite matter and infinite energy, surviving big bang/big crunch events, feels like a bit of scope creep. Also, I don't particularly care about the primordial ouroboric plemora, or whether some theoretical larger self is immortal, I'm not and the people I love are not. Like the kid in this fable, I say "Death is bad! It took my granny away."

Let's first aim to give humans the option to not die after a mere 3 billion seconds. Let's aim to first increase that by a factor of 100 or more. If the heat death of the universe or which centuries to keep in memory look like they're going to be a problem, then I'll be happy devote a few millenia to the effort.

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i get you, i am “human” too. The experiencer is one of the persistent thoughts we are having these days, and since we are one, i have an understanding and a certain sympathy towards your struggle.

im just arguing against the immortality of the experiencer.

I say give us longer lives, that may be possible.

An immortal experiencer for /everyone/ opens up the very troublesome issue of the quality of that experience. Actually the first consciousness who was close to what your describing, got really angry because creation allowed for more than one of it - the myth of the fall of the morning star - during that part of genesis consciousness was near immortal and it was happy. It does imply the nullification/sacrifice of all others to maintain that one experience - but thats an argument for murderous madness, essentially