/lit/ - Literature

>>7900271
Eternal recurrence does not make you immortal as your body will still die, but your conscious experience emanating from said body between the moment of your birth and death is infinite. However, if the many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics is true, and there are an infinite number of universes in which every conceivable possibility is realized, then you are indeed immortal, as your consciousness will continue seamlessly in the infinite number of parallel universes where events come together so that you don't die whenever you do die in one particular universe. So say you are dying of cancer, your consciousness will continue in the universes where they discover the cure for cancer the day before you die or it just goes away. If you blow your brains out with a shotgun, your consciousness will continue in the universes where the gun jams up and you change your mind, or your dad kicks in your door and takes the gun away right before you pull the trigger.