
copercel123
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Those who don’t know what QI mean it’s simply Every time a life-or-death event happens (like a gun misfiring or a car crash), all possible outcomes occur in different branches of the universe.
In one universe, you die.
In another, you survive.
You only remain conscious in the branches where you survive, because you’re not conscious in the ones where you’re dead.
Why it’s scary?
Quantum Immortality is scary because it suggests you never truly die. According to this theory, every time you face death, your consciousness continues in a universe where you survive. While this sounds good at at first, it quickly becomes disturbing.
Imagine surviving a deadly accident, barely. In this theory, you don’t die; you wake up in a version of reality where you just made it. Over time, that could mean surviving again and again, even when the survival comes with extreme suffering: coma, paralysis, brain damage, or endless aging. You’re not “healthy immortal”, you just keep existing in any version of reality where you’re still technically alive.
The horror comes from the idea that there’s no escape. Death, for many people, is a release or a natural conclusion to life. Quantum Immortality removes that. You become trapped in an unkillable conscious experience, possibly degrading over time, surviving what should be unsurvivable, possibly even long after your body breaks down.
It’s scary not because it means you live, but because it means you might never be allowed to stop living, even when life is pure pain.
So, your subjective experience would never include your own death. To you, you always “wake up” in the version of the universe where you lived. Forever.
Yeah that’s fucking terrifying.
Watch this YT video where someone on Reddit got insane because of it.
0:50-13:00 min.
Edit: I don’t believe it it’s just interesting to discuss about.
In one universe, you die.
In another, you survive.
You only remain conscious in the branches where you survive, because you’re not conscious in the ones where you’re dead.
Why it’s scary?
Quantum Immortality is scary because it suggests you never truly die. According to this theory, every time you face death, your consciousness continues in a universe where you survive. While this sounds good at at first, it quickly becomes disturbing.
Imagine surviving a deadly accident, barely. In this theory, you don’t die; you wake up in a version of reality where you just made it. Over time, that could mean surviving again and again, even when the survival comes with extreme suffering: coma, paralysis, brain damage, or endless aging. You’re not “healthy immortal”, you just keep existing in any version of reality where you’re still technically alive.
The horror comes from the idea that there’s no escape. Death, for many people, is a release or a natural conclusion to life. Quantum Immortality removes that. You become trapped in an unkillable conscious experience, possibly degrading over time, surviving what should be unsurvivable, possibly even long after your body breaks down.
It’s scary not because it means you live, but because it means you might never be allowed to stop living, even when life is pure pain.
So, your subjective experience would never include your own death. To you, you always “wake up” in the version of the universe where you lived. Forever.
Yeah that’s fucking terrifying.
Watch this YT video where someone on Reddit got insane because of it.
0:50-13:00 min.
Edit: I don’t believe it it’s just interesting to discuss about.
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