Michael Huemer returns to the podcast to discuss his philosophical argument for reincarnation. If time is infinite, then the probability that you have lived multiple times - indeed, an infinite number of times - is 100%. I am not so sure about this argument. Check out Huemer's published version of the reincarnation argument, as well as his Substack.
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EPISODE CHAPTERS
00:00:00 Introduction
00:04:25 The argument.
00:06:53 Poincare recurrence theorem.
00:17:42 Arguments for an infinite past.
00:28:10 Objection: infinite space and cosmic clones.
00:46:07 What does it feel like to reincarnate?
00:54:31 Should we look forward to our future lives?
01:08:19 Philosophical problems with Heaven.
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