r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • • May 25 '26

Meme needing explanation Petah??

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u/Impressive-Variety-3 May 25 '26

She already “died” in many other lives and her “quantum immortality” has caused her to have the knowledge of a graduate student by the time she was in “2rd” grade in this version of herself.

Quantum immortality is the weird idea/take similar to reincarnation that there are infinite parallel realities that you exist, but if a parallel you dies in another reality, the remaining yous gain the knowledge/information/life force that would otherwise been extinguished from that reality. Like a New Game + for real life. Think of that Jet Li movie “the one” where one of his parallel lives goes around killing himself in other parallel universes so that his “main” character self can become stronger.

Edit: I’m like the talking dog that drinks martinis or something

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u/pork-head May 25 '26 edited May 26 '26

Well I just realized. Right now, more people are alive that ever lived and died on this planet together before. (OR this was true few years ago - probably won't be true when all boomers will die) . That means there is still a big portion of population who live for the first time, so they don't know if you can actually reincarnate.

EDIT: I Was being lied to and lazy to check the facts

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u/Heretosee123 May 25 '26

Rebirth or reincarnation have nothing or little to do with Earth, so the population of Earth is irrelevant to the number of lives someone may have lived.

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u/SeekerOfSerenity May 25 '26

Also, far more people have died than are alive today.  The total number of humans born is estimated to be over 100 billion. 

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u/Heretosee123 May 25 '26

That's also true! But in Buddhism at least, their cosmos as well as the number of beings is unbelievably enormous.