Who here believes in it?

I choose believe, due my optimism and my ego cant think on a final for my existence.

SuperSonic Posted:

I mean reincarnation. So there is a show on TV over here, it shows a person being hypnotised and narrating memories of their past life. The theory is called Past Life Regression Therapy and I totally disbelieve.

The human mind is a master at Making **** Up™

It’s useful to us sometimes, but does mean it’s more or less impossible to rely completely on what we think we’ve seen.

Nah. Death is scary and nobody wants to die. I get that. That doesn’t mean we continue existing after we die, though.

Certain interpretations of Quantum Mechanics suggest that all possible ‘choices’ of events occur in a near-infinite array of parallel worlds. Given that, at each point in time, in some possible worlds you die for whatever reason, in others you don’t.

Whatever event occurs, there’s some slim chance of your survival (even if that slim chance relies on some freaky quantum miracle, like all the atoms in your body simultaneously leaping a metre to the left, out of the path of a bullet) so there will always be some possible world in which you survive whatever it is that’s trying to kill you.

You can only experience a world in which you are alive, therefore any time you do something potentially lethal your experience must, necessarily, be of a world where you survive. Therefore everyone is immortal (they just aren’t all immortal in the same universe at once… except in that one, distantly improbably universe where everyone cheats death every time).

[The above is probably bull****]