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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Yeah, that last one is my preferred one. Who knows if it's true or not, but if I could pick which one was true, I'd pick that one. I think it would have the best combination of getting all questions answered while also being able to keep existence interesting. It's a way to be immortal without regretting it, if mortality even applies to whatever we really are that is experiencing all of this.

I wonder if there were eons of boredom before the possibly even occurred and if there will be eons more of boredom after the one ends. Or if there's simultaneously a multitude of planets with life that we can experience. Maybe even a multitude of universes to experience life on.

Going really far with the idea, there's a possibility that all fiction and creative storytelling is actually a part of us just recounting something that happened to other parts of us in places with similar rules or very different ones.

Like infinite monkeys in infinite universes with infinite laws of physics and infinite definitions of "monkey" playing out every possible permutation of every possible existence.