Life, as seen from the eyes of a hopeless narcissist. A true story of one man's journey through life's little pleasures and pointless struggles; a man whose last friends died 65 million years ago; a man who believes evolution has taken a step back after Velociraptors...
This is the inspirational story of his life, his experiences, joys, sorrows, women and dinosaurs; his sometimes hilarious, sometimes tragic escapades and his one true love: himself.
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
The range of possible human experiences is limitless.
Bob, playing along with you, it's 2 ^ 10,000,000,000 per person, making if 6*10^9 for the entire population, and assuming a growth rate of 1.14, and assuming that the average age of a species befor extinction is 3 million years.... you get the picture, right?
Quite the opposite, because the more people there are, the more likely it will be that different people will have identical brain states i.e. same experiences.
The longer humanity exists, more and more people will have identical experiences. In other words, the uniqueness of a person's life will vanish.
There are only 2 ^ 10,000,000,000 possible brain states, which is large but finite, and therefore not limitless.
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ReplyDeleteBob, playing along with you, it's 2 ^ 10,000,000,000 per person, making if 6*10^9 for the entire population, and assuming a growth rate of 1.14, and assuming that the average age of a species befor extinction is 3 million years.... you get the picture, right?
ReplyDeleteLimitless is a figure of speech.
The math is alright. But can you please explain why you have treated them as mutually exclusive?
ReplyDeleteLeave it to all ye arses to bring an uber-existential post to frigging gallows.
ReplyDeleteQuite the opposite, because the more people there are, the more likely it will be that different people will have identical brain states i.e. same experiences.
ReplyDeleteThe longer humanity exists, more and more people will have identical experiences. In other words, the uniqueness of a person's life will vanish.
(Has this post reached an existential crisis???)
Just because you have the pleasure of perspective, don't think you have all the pleasure that has been invented.
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