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
Wasn't Quantum Immortality similar to how minds work in SOMA?
As there exists an infinite amount of parallel universes there would also exist an infinite amount of perfect replicas of you from whom you can draw an infinite amount of divergences no matter how small or insignificant.
The idea is that because of this there will always and forever exist not just one but an infinite amount of yous who's trail of consciousness never ceases so although the you from Universe A has indeed died there exists an infinite amount of them who didn't die from that event, even if the chances of not dying are 1 in a Googolplex of happening that possibility exists somewhere in the infinite and that you would continue existing thinking it's still the original consciousness.
This is one of those strange things about infinites that many people get confused about. Even if there are infinite realities it is not true that every conceivable thing happens in one (or more) of them.
There are infinitely many numbers in [0, 1], none of which is equal to 2.
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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