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Are We All Subjectively Immortal?
“Perhaps Nature is our best assurance of immortality.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
When we’re watching an action movie, we might think that we’re watching main characters through a bunch of explosions to an improbable happy ending, but it’s just as accurate to say that we’re watching the ‘Quantum Immortality Hypothesis’ illustrated over and over again.
In his book “Divided by Infinity,” Robert Charles Wilson makes a clever twist to introduce the concept of Quantum Immortality by mentioning a fictional book by Carl G. Soziere “You Will Never Die,” essentially describing a forthright implication of quantum physics — the Quantum Multiverse: “Consciousness, like matter, like energy, is preserved. You are born, not an individual, but an infinity of individuals, in an infinity of identical worlds. “Consciousness,” your individual awareness, is shared by this infinity of beings. At birth, this span of selves begins to divide, as alternate possibilities are indulged or rejected. The infant turns his head not to the left or to the right, but both. One infinity of worlds becomes two; then four; then eight, and so on, exponentially. But the underlying essence of consciousness continues to connect all these disparate possibilities.”
