Infinite dimensions: How do you feel about an infinite number on you's?

Question

Does the idea that there could be an infinite number of you living every possible choice you could ever make lessen your personal worth? Does this take away personal responsibility? Is it nihilism? Do you believe in parallel dimensions with copies of you living a different life or not, why?

Answer 1

An interesting theory to be sure.
I believe it could be possible there is an infinite number of universes all playing out an infinite number of choices. Every single conceivable path that life could of taken playing out at the same exact time.
As for lessening my personal worth? I don't think so. In a way, you could say that we are creating those multiple universes with every choice we make. If anything, could that not make you feel more important with your choices?
For every choice you make, you could argue that you are creating alternate universes based on the choice you made, now having to rework themselves to keep in mind your choice or action.
However unrealistic this could be, it is a bit of a stretch in a similiar fashion to the unlimited realities theory.
I think it would be rather interesting to travel to see some of these places but if the tv shows, Sliders taught us anything, it wouldnt be so great.

Answer 2

This is the best question I have come across so far.

There is an Indian philosophical theory that anything that we can possibly imagine or think is actually a fact in a different point in space and time. This gives rise to a question as to what then is the meaning of an event.... event loses all its significance as we identify them through change at a particular point in time in a particular point in space.... if the theory is right then the significance of time and space gets so diluted that imagination and physical event can not be differentiated.

In that context, even our being is just a combination of many many events and therefore our significance as being either responsible or making choices or being unique etc. are all diluted so drastically that our existence itself is no different than non-existence.

I find difficulty in believing this flight of imagination.... observable facts point to a totally opposite syndrome... there are no two events or things or being that are identical in every respect... constant change and uncertainty make sure of that.

I believe in a different possibility... for every single thing, being or event, there is an opposite somewhere else such that when you total or sum up everything, it becomes effectively zero. This could mean that zero (nothing) is expanding by duplicating a plus and a minus simultaneously which creates space and time but the totality still remains the same as before, namely zero or nothing.

At the end of it all, one comes to a conclusion that our faculty of perception, logic and imagination is so limited that we can never understand or comprehend these grand truths in full or to perfection.

Answer 3

It sounds like an infinite nightmare to me|


I prefer a vast (but not an infinite) number of other people who have their own *proper uniqueness,* yet have various levels of *commonality* with me at the same time||||


I believe in an *objective reality* that is outside of me||

I would not want to live in an *infinite hall of mirrors* where everything is nothing but aspects of my own ego (as in solipsism or Hinduism)||||| ||||| |||||






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