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Old 12-07-2012, 12:59 PM   #18 (permalink)
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Well I guess that is the problem, I think it would be me. He'd be exactly like me, think like me, and have all the same experiences. How would it be different than me? (Besides the fact that he took place years later)
From a certain point of view, you could argue that every event that takes place is unique for happening in that place at that time and, once done, can never happen again. And from that point of view, you will only exist once.

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I'm assuming that the jackpot doesn't have 1 prize. I'm not convinced that something could actually only take place and cause itself to never occur again.

Ok, I won't assume that matter will spawn, but you can't assume that matter can't be destroyed either. If a star collapsed, who is to say that the exact same matter/energy won't somehow be recreated in the exact same way? It's extremely unlikely, sure, but that's where my jackpot comment comes in.
Recreated? Why would it be recreated in the same way?

If there is a constant, infinite, unchangeable law called gravity that traps that matter in that black hole for eternity and there is no event that can take place in the universe that can ever cause that matter to exist anywhere than in that black hole once that event has taken place, then of course the probability of that matter doing anything but exist as part of a black hole is non-existant. At that point, how would the event repeat itself?
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