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by cakealert 554 days ago
A snapshot of an instance of you is just a really large number. A unique transition between two instances of you (@ t and t+1) is also a large number. A slideshow of your entire life's instances is just a really really large number.

All these numbers are somewhere on the number line. In fact, the slideshow of every creature is on the number line.

Is anything real? Because being instantiated in matter is just another way of animating the slideshow where physics takes care of the transition function.

There are unfortunately no insights to be had in this endeavor.