The Simplest Proof Of Nietzsche's Eternal Recurrence Theorem

Nietzsche's Eternal Recurrence Theorem is a thought experiment, but I was once shown a simple and interesting proof that made me understand it on a different level. Here's that proof for you!

[RyanStarbloak]

*slaps forehead


I forget to ask how y'all feel about this theorem. Did you believe it? Counterpoints? Respond for fascinations and fancies.

[DrazDid]

I came across this theory by being really high and watching mob pyscho, I never heard of it before but I just randomly started thinking about the idea of life reoccuring and it made so much sense to me, at the moment I thought I figured out life and because of it I was about to die so I started panicking.

[lovetownsend]

0:00 ryan like "let me break out my freshest, whitest white board for this one"

[smartshrekyboy]

I feel bad for the people who die young or even worse as babies its just endless death and to top it off after you die time doesn't exist for you so its like an instant that your reborn into yourself again thats TORTURE

[lovetownsend]

Bruh it's theorized between all the apocalypse factors (like ice age, not enough materials to leave milky way, etc. etc.), humanity only has a couple 100, 000's years left.... but god damn are we gonna make the most out of it :) that' the point of life, not some endless legacy.


(*Bruh that's what my new game Death Stranding all about... buy a ps4 and check it out bruh~ ud love it)

[CasitaFlores]

well if time can only reconfigured something so many different ways throughout certain time and doesn't that mean that whatever you do, do is what you're meant to do for this cycle around time. Meaning regardless of what you do, all is in place because obviously you're doing it.

[aceyboy]

Look up Penrose's Conformal Cyclic Cosmology and his work on quantum effects in microtubules. There was a recent paper confirming this effect. Sabine did a video on it.

My theory which I hope is wrong, is that our consciousness is entangled in everything at every moment in time. I hope that doesn't mean we experience every life because that would be an eternal torture chamber.

[lovetownsend]

0:44 "If the amount of LIME in the universe is infinite" u kno how many lime-aids i'd be making a day.... god damn!

[PapaSmurff]

I would say that although it is very intriguing, I do not believe in the theorem. It's difficult for me to explain why, but I'll do my best.
For one, our existence is a very highly dynamic thing and simply cannot be replicated; just because all the matter in the universe to create us exists, it does not mean that it will form that way again; it will never form that way again because the events that led to our existence cannot be replicated; there will never be a point where the universe 'resets' itself such that we experience our existence the same way over and over again. (My next counterpoint isn't too strong but I'll include it anyway) Lastly, even if our existence somehow repeats exactly the same through eternity, there will always be an unofficial record of how many times it repeated; this number would be constantly changing; this one fact slightly contradicts the idea that the universe is on an unchanging cycle, as the number of times it repeats changes

[jeremyh]

Not true that his entire philosophy is contingent on eternal recurrence. And Nietzsche scholars even disagree whether he intended it as a cosmological theory. Most today view it as a decision criterion, not a cosmological/physical thesis. See the article "Nietzsche for Physicists" (google for pdf) for a discussion of this argument for eternal recurrence.

[Ronson_Lau]

Do you have past life memories reliving as the same person ? Coz I do, but I think eternal recurrence is something only since Nietzsche 's time, the ancient time was linear, I think this is some advanced technology from extraterrestrials as spoken of in the book of Daniel 7 that they will mix with the seeds of mankind and change time and law and it will be delivered unto their hands for time, times and half a time which I think means a matter of lifetimes not just three and a half years, it's seems to naive to think that it is only three and half years
I can't help bringing Daniel 7 in because it is a more plausible explanation considering eternal recurrence began only around Nietzsche 's time

[ericscarfe]

Inclined to believe in eternal return, but I dislike the theory intensely. It's just so bloody pointless.