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AMA | May 2023

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

CHAPTER

The Paradox of Reincarnation

We don't have a definitive way or an algorithm for constructing all of these things and saying what they are. So there's no list to search through for a quantum computer. Maybe the quantum computer can help us solve the equations that will produce such a list, but then it would have to do a lot of work to predict what a particular configuration of extra dimensions implied for low energy laws of physics. It seems impractical to me even for a pretty big quantum computer, but I've been surprised before. Dutch Cheese says, do you understand what is meant by reincarnation? There seems to be no self. Everything is interdependent. There is just experience. ...There seems nothing personal left to reincarn

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