Parallel universe versions of yourself

[usopp]

simular string, different thread. what would your life be like if you were an addict/killer/bum how would you deal with seeing yourself in a fukked up situation?

 

[Serious]

So why then would the pain of bizarro-world you have more of an effect on you than the pain of any other random person in the same situation?

I'd probably just chalk the series of bad luck up to the randomness of the universe.

Yeah, there could be versions of you in a happier place than here as well. But I'm just asking how the assed out version of you would affect you if you could get a glimpse of him.

Not just you. What about your loved ones doing much worse as well. What if you saw that there was a version of yourself where your mom was a dopefiend sucking dikks in alleys and you were in prison.

Or what if you saw a version of you with Lou Gehrig's disease in your mom's backroom drooling looking like Stephen Hawking.

How would you carry that knowing that this version of you is out existing and there's nothing you could do about it, and how much more would it bother you than the millions of other people suffering?

Damn, you aint have to go there breh, I can't even fathom half of this. Now, you're just being illogical. . You can't do mom's like that. Might half to toke up and record my response to this.

I guess, thinking like this would cause me to be even more apathetic towards others. And not just the cordial civilized getting along and "acting" interested about others, because I'd actually have a vested interest in relating to others' misfortunes.

 

[usopp]

???

 

[Brown_Pride]

i'd slip me some money or a cheeseburger through whatever inter-dimensional device i had.

I don't think it would upset me that I was suffering though
we all make choices and we live...or die based on those choices. Now if he caught a raw deal or something then i'd really try and help me out, but if i was all cracked out for no good got damn reason then fuk me.

 

[Sinnerman]

*subs for later

 

[ThatKidBlackHippy]

... Yeah, this is one of the reasons why I hate the idea of parallel universes and alternate versions of myself. shyt is too much of a mindfukk lol.

 

[Sensitive Blake Griffin]

Kinda similarly, I had a lucid dream where I experienced what life was like for my loved ones had I never been born. It was

 

[ThatTruth777]

That me would be one no good mothafukka

 

[zerozero]

I probably wouldn't be that concerned about the alternate me? The relatives thing might break my heart though

dunno.. it's hard to simulate emotions without dreaming or something

 

[jackswstd]

I sometimes wish I could talk to my younger self and give him advice.

 

[usopp]

you would still have similarities to your this dimensional self, but you could see how you would handle different pressures and situations in life.
like, your a regular cat here, but elsewhere you a Jeffery Dahmer type of sick fukk.

 

[VerbalIntercourse]

I don't understand how a parallel world works in theory. Actually, I don't think it can happen at all.

There is no free will. One's choices are a product of environment, antecedents, and genetics. They are set in stone by the time your are born. Sure, there is a randomness at the quantum level, but I don't see how that translates to some parallel world where you're someone totally different. it is simply impossible.

 

[Broke Wave]

This is kind of why I believe in a higher power and creator of some kind... There are so many different possibilities when you start thinking about string theory and alternate universes that there seems to be some kind of order that dictates all things. I can't necessarily quantify it.

 

[Dusty Bake Activate]

I don't understand how a parallel world works in theory. Actually, I don't think it can happen at all.

There is no free will. One's choices are a product of environment, antecedents, and genetics. They are set in stone by the time your are born. Sure, there is a randomness at the quantum level, but I don't see how that translates to some parallel world where you're someone totally different. it is simply impossible.

That's why I said fukk how this would happen. It's more a thought experiment.

I am definitely open to the possibility of multiple universes. Just not necessarily ones that contained identical copies of people like I'm positing here.

If we are to assume there are multiple universes, in order for one to contain another version of yourself, there would have to be another universe which held all the same 17 or 20 or whatever number it is of physical constants that keeps this universe from collapsing on itself. And it would also have to contain another Earth-like planet near a Sun-like star, and the process of life would've had to occur in the same manner as it did here...all the same geological activity and pelting of meteorites and radiation and magnetic properties, etc. People would've had to have evolved the same way under the same conditions. You would have had to have the same group of genetic ancestors and family tree up to your parents. And the DNA base-pairings that comprise you would have to have happened exactly the same way and produced an identical copy of you. The odds of that for all practicality, nil.

But if it did happen, you still might have slightly different experiences and environment, that could alter your decisions and behaviors, so free will not being real isn't really relevant here. A slight alteration in experiences could lead the other you to make a different decision about something crucial than you did here. Or someone else could make a different decision based on their experience that affected you.

 

[Dusty Bake Activate]

I sometimes wish I could talk to my younger self and give him advice.

I think we all feel like that sometimes.