Existential Oppo 

Kinja'd!!! by "DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time" (dc3ls-)
Published 04/21/2017 at 02:52

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4 reelz dis tyme!

If you died right now and had two choices.

1) Completely cease to exist

or

2) Re-live your life exactly the same, but have no memory of your previous exact same life. So you would literally re-live your life, experiencing everything for the first time again, exactly the same as the life before.

PS: For all you know, you’ve relived this life 1,000 times already and don’t remember.

Which would you chose?

Kinja'd!!!

Ford GT for you existential crisis inducing time.


Replies (2)

Kinja'd!!! "Audistein" (Audistein)
04/21/2017 at 03:46, STARS: 4

I fail to see a difference between the two options from my perspective, or from any perspective for that matter. If I am unable to maintain any memory or thought upon ‘reincarnation’ then my consciousness as it currently exists is completely erased from existence regardless of which I chose. Whether this process happens once or repeatedly is ultimately irrelevant if nothing is preserved between cycles.

I do suppose option “1” does seem slightly less appealing on the face of it but only because the phrase “completely cease to exist” incites more of a sense of existential dread, but ultimately in terms of conscious beings they are in fact the same.

Kinja'd!!! "pip bip - choose Corrour" (hhgttg69)
04/21/2017 at 05:49, STARS: 0

option 1