• ghost_of_faso2@lemmygrad.ml
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    Materialist philosphy is so cool honestly, I read a great materialist theory on reincarnation recently that argued since our conciousnesses are material things that we can be sure exists, as we pilot one, our conicousnesses themselves where made by material conditions and those conditions will repeat given an infinite amount of time.

    Which means we’re all trapped in this infinite conciousness loop called reality weeeee.

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      Isn’t that just the “if you have infinite monkeys banging on typewriters you’ll eventually get Shakespeare” thing, though? Not that consciousness can’t be revived, but it’s pretty unlikely for the same one to form again.

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        but it’s pretty unlikely for the same one to form again.

        But it already formed once, why is it unlikely it would happen again?

        Its more if you consider infinitie, you get the heat death of the universe then persumably a ‘reset’ of conditions with another big bang, repeat on an infinite timeline and eventually the same conditions that make you repeat. A materialist look on this would consider this ‘copy’ of you the same if everything that happened prior to you becoming you happened again.

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        there are similarities and it deffo takes some inspo from it; but it also is an interpetation of re-incarnation/meta-physics that tries to incoperate modern understandings of physics into its analysis which makes it a little different; I suppose the difference and what makes it materialist vs Nietzch is that this theory is open and will adapt to new devolopments in physics + our understanding of the edge of the universe, and also that some of its assumptions like ‘material circumstances created your concisousness’ rather than it being something else.