on the afterlife

to me, the ideal purpose of my life is to avoid being "a person of the cave", in socrates' words

to avoid simply reacting to things that happen; to take control, or at least, understand the underlying logic of the environment

i also generally believe in determinism, and that there is no such thing as "local truth" (i.e. "it snows in May-June in Australia, but in winter in the northern hemisphere, why is this the case?" ans: axial precession)

i also believe that abiogenesis happened and subscribe to cyclical models of the universe such as conformal cyclic cosmology; to evoke a theological refrain,

What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun

i.e., eternal return

suppose there is a "maximum" size of the universe (before the next deflation); there has to be a limited number of configurations that it can take on, albeit very large, due to the pigeonhole principle

in a certain configuration the particles that led to the formation of an entity like "me" in the first place could end up becoming "you"; assuming consciousness is materialist would possibly result in "me" cycling through all of the possible conscious entities in the universe after a very very long period of time

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