I once read a theory that, every time you're about to die, your consciousness shifts into another universe in which you don't die. So if you have a 50/50 chance of getting hit by a bus, you'll logically end up in the reality where you don't get hit---because, logically, you don't exist in the other one. Ergo: immortality.
Presumably, this would end up with you as the oldest being in the universe, still alive at its heat death due to a series of increasingly bizarre coincidences. If this doesn't happen to you, then it's not your universe, it's someone else's.
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Date: 2009-01-17 10:55 pm (UTC)Presumably, this would end up with you as the oldest being in the universe, still alive at its heat death due to a series of increasingly bizarre coincidences. If this doesn't happen to you, then it's not your universe, it's someone else's.