To be fair, living as one person for 10,000 years wouldn’t necessarily let you experience everything that any one of many people did during the same amount of time.
If my goal was to maximize the diversity of my lived experience, I suspect I would not sign up for a several-thousand-year linear lifetime (that is, a lifetime where I remembered all of my past experiences as one sequence of events) at all.
I would far prefer, in that case, to “reset” periodically and live new lives, as well as to experience the recorded lives of others in the first person, depending on what was technologically feasible.
To be fair, living as one person for 10,000 years wouldn’t necessarily let you experience everything that any one of many people did during the same amount of time.
If my goal was to maximize the diversity of my lived experience, I suspect I would not sign up for a several-thousand-year linear lifetime (that is, a lifetime where I remembered all of my past experiences as one sequence of events) at all.
I would far prefer, in that case, to “reset” periodically and live new lives, as well as to experience the recorded lives of others in the first person, depending on what was technologically feasible.
I hate to admit it but sometimes I hope that is what I’m doing.
A total enough “reset” seems to differ from what demonstrably happens entirely in terms of what the label “I” attaches to.