>>18427617>>18427617If the universe truly travels a linear path through the fourth dimension until infinity, then according to the laws of probability applied to a timeline that has an endpoint of infinity, anything that could ever be possible will end up happening, no matter how small the probability.
Once the universe cools to total heat death and time goes on infinitely, there’s a 100% chance that you’ll eventually be in a situation where you’re re-reading this post with this same time stamp while the clock nearest to you reads the exact same time that you see it at after you finish reading this post, and the atoms in and around you will be in the same exact configuration in that snapshot of time.
Maybe you’ll be a Boltzmann Brain floating in the void experiencing your life as a dream. Maybe quantum fluctuations will create another Big Bang that is a complete replica of the one that kickstarted our universe and you’ll just repeat your entire life. Or maybe you’re a Boltzmann Brain now.
So yes, the concept of an “afterlife” or “rebirth of consciousness” is true according to currently understood laws of probability, and whether or not you think that the collection of primordial cosmic dusts that you are composed of is “you” and any other replica of that configuration is a “copy” with its own consciousness.
Regardless, you existing as a singular consciousness in whatever form has a 100% chance of repeating itself. It just takes a really fucking long time since we’re dealing with a timeline that spans infinity.
It won’t really matter to you because while you’re dead, the starting point of your death and the arrival at a point on the infinite timeline where your consciousness is recreated some 10^100^100^100 years in the future seems like an instant, just as how the ~14 billion years (or ~26 billion years according to James Webb telescope observation) that happened before you were born felt like an instant.
