On one hand, quantum immortality—probably yes. On the other hand, look at your observer-moments from a timeless perspective:
Instead of seeing time as something that is a part of you and stubbornly keeps crawling forward from every moment of your existence, imagine time as something that is already out there, just some scaffolding of the space-time, a way to cut existence into many small 4D cubes, some of which contain you, and most of them do not. From this perspective, death at time T simply means that most of your observer-moments happen before the time T, and only a few of them (because of quantum immortality) after the time T.
That is, the “feeling” of death in e.g. 2040 is simply that whenever you look at the calendar, you will almost certainly notice that it is not 2040 yet.
Seems to me that the correct conclusion, even after accepting quantum immortality, is not to imagine yourself in some weird unlikely future, but simply to… be in the present.
(The opposite is that you will exist for billions of years, experience tons of extremely unlikely things, like aliens, technological miracles, other kinds of magical resurrections, etc. Which would make the fact that you are right now in a normal situation astronomically unlikely. And yet, here you are.)
...of course this may all be bullshit and confused thinking; it’s just currently the best I can do...
On one hand, quantum immortality—probably yes. On the other hand, look at your observer-moments from a timeless perspective:
Instead of seeing time as something that is a part of you and stubbornly keeps crawling forward from every moment of your existence, imagine time as something that is already out there, just some scaffolding of the space-time, a way to cut existence into many small 4D cubes, some of which contain you, and most of them do not. From this perspective, death at time T simply means that most of your observer-moments happen before the time T, and only a few of them (because of quantum immortality) after the time T.
That is, the “feeling” of death in e.g. 2040 is simply that whenever you look at the calendar, you will almost certainly notice that it is not 2040 yet.
Seems to me that the correct conclusion, even after accepting quantum immortality, is not to imagine yourself in some weird unlikely future, but simply to… be in the present.
(The opposite is that you will exist for billions of years, experience tons of extremely unlikely things, like aliens, technological miracles, other kinds of magical resurrections, etc. Which would make the fact that you are right now in a normal situation astronomically unlikely. And yet, here you are.)
...of course this may all be bullshit and confused thinking; it’s just currently the best I can do...