I will agree that without the limitation of time, things become meaningless.
How can you logically make such a statement when nobody has ever experienced such a situation?
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I will agree that without the limitation of time, things become meaningless.
How can you logically make such a statement when nobody has ever experienced such a situation?
Perhaps, I should have worded that better and thought it out a little more. A specific event's meaning tends to decrease over time. I can and have experienced that in my finite life. Today, my experience of 11th birthday will mean more to me than that same birthday twenty years from now, unless some future event makes that birthday important somehow.
Given that the human's capacity to hold memories is finite (although it could be expanded), these specific events in an infinite timeline, a finite distribution becomes thinner and thinner until it approaches zero.
However, this point is mistaken. For people value the recent over the distant (in my experience). Thus, one's life could view the distribution skewed towards the recent and disregard the past. A specific moment in one's past could lose all of it's meaning, but one could continue to value repetitive things as they become novel once again over the passage of time. I could enjoy eating an infinitive number of pizzas as long as I spaced the experiences out.
Although, I can't definitively say this is fact, this argument appears to be plausible given prior although limited experience.
That's a much a better response. I like the fact you mention that our capacity to store memories could be increased. Another solution would be to dump those memories to permanent long-term storage just like a computer would.
Imagine replacing your neurons with synthetic neurons Ship of Theseus style. If we did that, we wouldn't have to stop when we've converted all the biological neurons, we could simply add new synthetic neurons and expand our intelligence and memory capacity. Is there a size limit to that expansion? Is it possible for me to to become a solar system sized synthetic brain? If so, then we won't even be able to imagine the possibilities that would open any more than an ant can imagine what humans are capable of.
I find it mind-boggling that some people think they could experience everything and would get bored.
Again, you fail to grasp the larger picture. Perhaps Dr. Manhattan can help once more