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> In an eternity all individual events lose their meaning. An endless life is a meaningless life

One, we don't get an eternity. It's thermodynamically impossible.

Two, we're mortal beings with mortal minds. Our trying to comprehend--let alone judge--what an immortal being would consider meaningful is hubris.

Three, how does this scale? Is a child's life more meaningfully if it ends early? Why is our present life and healthspan the sole optimum?




Both GR and QM do things thermodynamics prohibits.




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