As I’ve pointed out before, we don’t need to say whether patternism is true, or whether the universe is big or not, to notice that we are subjectively non-mortal—no matter what is the case, we will never experience dying (in the sense of going out of existence.)
I guess we’ve had this discussion before, but: the difference between patternism and your version of subjective mortality is that in your version we nevertheless should not expect to exist indefinitely.
Sure. Nonetheless, you should not expect anything noticeably different from that to happen either. The same kinds of things will happen: you will find yourself wondering why you were the lucky one who survived the car crash, not wondering why you were the unlucky one who did not.
As I’ve pointed out before, we don’t need to say whether patternism is true, or whether the universe is big or not, to notice that we are subjectively non-mortal—no matter what is the case, we will never experience dying (in the sense of going out of existence.)
I guess we’ve had this discussion before, but: the difference between patternism and your version of subjective mortality is that in your version we nevertheless should not expect to exist indefinitely.
Sure. Nonetheless, you should not expect anything noticeably different from that to happen either. The same kinds of things will happen: you will find yourself wondering why you were the lucky one who survived the car crash, not wondering why you were the unlucky one who did not.