The Basic Idea…
- As far as I can tell, I’ve been the same “person/self” since I was conceived
- Given the current “rational” model of human mortality – its core being that each of us selves have only one, finite, life to live (at most) — my current existence is so improbable as to be virtually impossible.
- So, the fact that I (and you, I suppose) DO currently exist has mathematical implications CONTRARY to that current model.
- In fact, MY CURRENT existence is SO unlikely — GIVEN THIS CURRENT MODEL – that this current model MUST be WRONG.
- And if it’s wrong, i must be either eternal or multiple…
- Just a taste of why your current existence is so unlikely given the current rational model (take your time): apparently,
- You (your personal consciousness) would not be here if your parents had never met.
- The same is true if either set of your grandparents had never met.
- Etc., etc., etc.
- And then, not only does it seem that your current, personal, existence depend upon each of these specific meetings — back to the beginning of sexual reproduction on this planet — but each meeting had to ultimately involve fornication, as well as the meeting of the appropriate sperm cell and appropriate ovum, and also, everything that led up to sexual reproduction in life forms in the first place, not to mention everything that led up to life itself on this planet.
- Like, for instance, the big bang.
- And what’s more, your dad probably created a septillion sperm cells in his lifetime – and, you are the combination of one, specific sperm cell from your dad, and one specific ovum from your mom.
- Between just the two of them, your Mom and Dad had hundreds of septillions of different potential children (selves) that were never born!
- (And, your dad’s dad – and, your mom’s dad — probably had just as many sperm cells as did your dad…)
- Anyway, any other combination from your mom and dad would be your brother or sister.
- And then, what about all those potential kids your dad and Cleopatra could have had, had they met?
- And, what about all the potential kids and grandkids (etc.) of the potential kids of your Dad and Cleopatra???
- And scientifically speaking, this is just the tip — of the tip — of the iceberg in regard to the number of specific events that had to occur in order for you to currently exist.
- And, if we can count the potential kids of potential kids, of potential grandkids, etc., our icebergs reach down to infinity…
- In other words, either, you are UNIMAGINABLY lucky, or the current rational model of human mortality is all wrong.
- In still other words, the current rational model of human mortality must be wrong, and you must be either eternal or multiple.
- Or … time just isn’t what we’ve been assuming that it is — and you never had anything to worry about anyway
- But don’t worry whatever — your existence probably is NOT dependent upon the meeting of a particular sperm and ovum anyway
- More to come…
- https://what-it-s-all-about.life/controversy/