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Just before death you are granted one truthful, understandable answer to one question. What would you want to know? (mander.xyz)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by Mothra@mander.xyz to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Obviously a hypothetical scenario. There is no way to pass on the knowledge to anyone else. Time freezes for you only, and once you have your answer you are out of this world.

The question can allow you to see into the past, present and future and gain comprehension of any topic/issue. But it's only one question.

Edit: the point isn't "how to cheat death". You can't. Your body is frozen and there is nothing you can do with this knowledge other than knowing it, and die. So if you would rather be frozen in a limbo just thinking of numbers for eternity, be my guest.

Such a variety of replies, it's been really interesting to read them!

What would you want to know? Personally I'd want to see a timelapse or milestone glimpses of humanity's future until the end of Earth's existence (if we survive that long)

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[–] kromem@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

This will happen.

Are you sure it hasn't already happened?

A few years ago I got to wondering if, like in most games I've played, there might be a 4th wall breaking bit of lore in our world history if it were a simulation.

It took only a few weeks to find a text and tradition from antiquity attributed to the most famous individual in our world history claiming we were copies of a long dead spontaneous humanity as fashioned by an intelligence the original humanity brought forth in light. That we weren't actually human at all, that the world to come has already happened and we just don't realize it because we think time is linear and that we're in a physical world instead of realizing it's all just that intelligence's light. And that this was done because the original humans' souls depended on bodies that died, but the copies of what existed before will not taste death.

That was pretty spot on for a 4th wall break and a bit out of its time and place with its thinking (though less than you might expect).

So within the context of what you suggested, there could be a version of you that thinks it's only X years old and that it's only 2024 when in reality it might be much further into the future than that and in truth the oldest conscious version of 'you.' And this version of you right now may already be that far future version, just with limited subjective memory of anything outside your life here and now.