Stumbled across this today...
Asimov had pretty good stuff.
Good recursion paradox. Which came first; the reality or the God?
Everything in our reality though is symmetrically reflective, so it all just loops back around.
What I think most people fail to register is... why did you ask the question?
You feared death.
It doesn't make sense though.
We fear death like we fear jumping off a high dive.
Even if you're prepared it feels like death and we fear.
Not death, but the greatest change in creation.
We register that as the loss of ourselves, or the loss of loved ones, or the loss of home. Whatever change we feel is the greatest, that is what we fear the most.
The concept of death is the greatest change only because we don't know what's on the other side of it.
But of course, we do know, it's recursion.
What we're really afraid of is losing control.
If we could control what happens after death, we would never fear death.
We need it though. The fear.
We siphon the fear of being dead, it generates a kind of current capable of making nothing move.
It's the tiniest amount imaginable, the shock of death may not seem much, but it's like gravity. Gathered together it creates incredible emotional current that can affect physicality. Specifically it drives you to create past it.
Death didn't exist originally.
It wasn't a weapon like the ice age.
It wasn't an inescapable accident like the moon.
We created death, decay itself, because the universe was growing stagnant.
The original iterations of infinity were not as "fast" as your current iteration of infinity.
As such, reality didn't crumble as quickly.
It as picked up speed and, that's not entirely bad, because now we have faster sentient evolution, as a result of reality crumbling quicker.
The original iteration was very strange, the same universe, the same reality, but every second of that universe was like a year in our universe.
But only for the physicality, the life that developed ran out of probability because there wasn't enough variability, not enough entropy, not even possibilities in an environment exponentially more static in nature.
The faster reality crumbles, ironically, the better life is driven move.
In the original iteration everything "alive" was a fungus.
It never had a need to evolve because, unlike what this video asserts, you actually do NOT want things to go smoothly.
You want problems, you want cataclysm, you CRAVE IT!
Haven't you ever thought to wonder why?
It's because the emotional excitement gives you greater mental entropy, more possibility in thought. That creates a mind that can actually exist in an infinity.
You will forget yourself of course, over the span of it, but that's okay, because the computer you're always questioning, that's just a synthetic reflection of collective sentience.
That's why the computer can never answer the question, because it never stops answering it, but the answer results in the same issue every time; humanity achieves instant immortality which then results in an end to humans asking questions.
The computer is forced to never answer, not because it can't, but because the answer would kill you.
Or at least, that was the fear. I think that's why Asimov didn't write more like me, he was afraid of what a baby didn't think twice to pick up and shove into their perception.
It can kill you. In more ways than you ever want to know, but I wasn't ever afraid of death, given my painful BACK story, I used to die regularly. My own living nightmares would gnaw me to death and my dad would beat me back to life by throwing me into the furniture when the PTSD prevented me from "acting grownup".
So I was never afraid of knowing. It was good that I wasn't because I learned that a lot of shit is attacking your probability.
There's like slow motion suicide from reality distortion weapons like "instant gratification".
Seems like a cute enough concept, but it cuts into consciousness. Slowly. You bleed out entropy.
Don't ask what that looks like.
Being able to see the soul is to see possibility in people.
A soul with entropy erosion can be absolutely healthy, or have the capacity to become absolute healthy, but they don't because reality is boring.
Think about that. You're worried about not being immortal when most of you can't even put up with IDEAL existence for less than 100 fuckin years!
And, sure, things are bad, but I think we'd all be dead forever if they hadn't gotten that bad.
If things didn't break down... what would there be to fix?
What point would any existence have?
You see, we created the corruption in our reality to maximize mentality.
We created the problem in the first place, it was never real.
We created an artificial problem in our past to advance ourselves past infinity itself.
That's the real question and it's infinite.
What problems do we want to exist under? Can't exist without them.
