Will our efforts in philosophy ever lead to a non-circular answer to the worth of life? I.e. will mankind ever create or find its purpose?
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Well, we can prove that a system of axioms can never be both consistent and complete. So for the former, I'd wager not. Would be better to directly ask for it instead, so you get it by fiat at least.
For the latter? I'd wager I'd rather not think about it. What if we found our purpose circa 1300 BCE and have actually had it ever since? I don't think I'd want to risk knowing that :D
How does priority work in MtG?
In actuality though I'd probably kick up a reincarnation loop by asking for the full experience of every living and inanimate thing the universe has to hold, starting with everyone/everything I ever interacted with and branching exponentially from there.
Nice
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Did i make a positive impact?
What happened to the other species of humans? Would they like metal? The first question can be ignored if both are not allowed
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I want to know what the best version of myself would have been like. What did I miss out on.
What was the single thing I did that had the last direct impact on myself, that had the greatest lasting impact on anyone else?
Things like spending the extra time one day making a cup of coffee made it so this specific person was stuck behind my slow-ass speed limit driving, averting what would've been a multi-car pileup or some shit like that.
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I would probably ask the question to whoever give this option to me. Probably something like "Tell me about yourself in the most detailed way".
After I'm gone, how would everyone I've loved remember me?
I feel like it would probably be something about Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem. That thing is really annoying.
Although I feel I might get stuck in a recursive answer if I ask the wrong thing. So maybe I would ask something about a loved one, that I already know the answer to.
When I die my first question to the Devil will be: What is the meaning of the fine structure constant?
— Wolfgang Pauli
How might entropy be meaningfully reversed?
Over or under?
The meaningful questions…
And over is the correct answer, of course.
Over
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