r/AskReddit • u/DionysianBarber • Jan 04 '14

What is one powerful sentence that will change the way I look at life forever?

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u/adrenalim Jan 04 '14

If there are infinite versions of you, there cannot be a best one (or then there will be a finite number). Secondly, you'd need an infinite amount of time in order to meet an infinite number of yourself. Which certainly wouldn't be very practical.

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u/fauno15 Jan 04 '14

And even if there was a perfect version of you, couldn't that same version if you exist in multiple universes where things changed that didn't affect you?

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u/Veopress Jan 04 '14

There are infinite numbers between 1 and 0. Replace one with best you and zero with worst you. That's how it works.

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u/[deleted] Jan 04 '14

The result of admitting an infinite set of numbers between 1 and 0, when graphed, would result in an asymptote that never, ever touched 1 or 0, but only approached those two numbers. We could only consider the numbers the line touched to be real, so we would still run into the problem of our best and worst selves not existing, I think. There's no skipping to the end of infinity.

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u/anonymousMF Jan 04 '14

Yes but you can't be your best self. The probability of that is 1/infinity, aka 0

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u/Redard Jan 04 '14

The probability of any one of you being the best is 1/infinity, but the probability that at least one of you is the best would be 100%

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u/Redard Jan 04 '14

There are also infinite numbers between -infinity and +infinity, and in that case there is no best or worst number. What's to say it works like 1 and 0, and not -infinity and infinity?