Lmao this is such a stupid scenario, but I love putting incomprehensibly large numbers in absurd contexts like this. Like yeah, no brainer that infinity is vastly incomprehsibly largererer than Graham's number, of course nothing is worth going to hell that long for.

But uh, Graham's numbers is a lot of years. For all intents and purposes it's just never coming compared to the characteristic time scale of human thought.

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[–] cosecantphi@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago

Somehow missed this when you posted it earlier but I want say I've had the same thought and it's how I feel too.

That's kind of the thing about infinity, right? Who's to say that the universe is not cyclical if it never ends? The coming heat death, and the arrow of time in general, is a statistical process, not a fundamental one. After enough time, anything physically possible will happen, including the sudden reversal of entropy and therefore death.

And since we cannot perceive nonexistance, one must always exist from ones own perspective! The eternity before I'm born is the only reference frame I have for the supposed eternity after death, but that itself spontanseously ended with my birth, why can't it happen again? And if it does, it should be instantly after death from my perspective, too.