The reason why this depressed me is because most of people believe that there are infinite parallel universes with a lot of versions of "you", with variations, some of then could had won the lottery, but some could have a hard life... I had never paid so much attention to this because, well, they are just not "you", even if they are identical, they are other persons with different lifes, you experience different things... But with this idea of BU, are they more different than the versions of your past/future? Are there reasons for care about to your future "you" and not to the others? — Philosophuser
The Block Universe itself could be a bit disturbing, but it's awful when think in the multiverse... If there are infinite universes, in some of then versions of you could have a lot of suffering... I had never think this "versions" were you, they are like other people, but with the implications of the BU, why are they more different than your future you? — Philosophuser
You will get to experience your future “you”, so if you want your future “you” to be a pleasant experience try your best to make that happen. — leo
You can also think of the idea that maybe the other people in this universe are also alternate versions of “you” that you will get to experience at some point. — leo
The idea that you will not experience the future because you will be another person seems a bit nonsensical because we can say that we are the same person as in the past despite changes. Memory links past and present. I can remember my first day at school. In a sense it is just as true to say that I am that same person as to say that I am a different person. — Jack Cummins
Does this imply that the atoms of an object "now" are not the same that those of the one second ago? — Philosophuser
As to depression about this, I don't really follow why it's depressing. — Pfhorrest
But at the same time I find it depressing, so bad things will happen anyway... — Philosophuser
You probably got depressed because you were trying to view the space-time universe from a hypothetical eternal-infinite God's perspective, outside of physical reality. There is no "here" there. So you may have burned-out a few looping brain circuits, like a computer dividing by zero.Hello. I was reading about the ideas of Multiverse and Block Universe and I got depressed. — Philosophuser
But at the same time I find it depressing, so bad things will happen anyway... — Philosophuser
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