Unique Universe

Quilted Multiverse, Quantum Multiverse, Ultimate Multiverse and more theories all describe an infinite universe or an infinitely amount of (finite) universes (Greene, 2011). That would mean there are infinitely many planets with some sort of life on them. Even infinitely many planets where humans have evolved. Thus, infinitely many planets like Earth. Infinitely many planets that are different from ours.

But also infinitely many planets where you exist.

Not all infinities have the same size. There are more versions of Earth where you don’t exist. Or Earths were versions of you exist with the same nature, but different nurture. But a small infinity of versions exactly like you exists somewhere in the infinite universe.

This computer game is a bridge between you and other versions of yourself in the universe, all of you who came across this simulation at this exact time.

There are infinitely many versions of yourself that follow the exact same path as you. But also infinitely many versions may have made every decision likewise you, but chose a different shape in this computer simulation. Or the same shape, but a slightly different path. Versions of you whose choice is influenced by that one time in high school they did dye their hair, something you didn’t dare.

Remember that there are also infinitely many versions of you who will make all the same choices, but maybe come across this game in a day or so, thus who do the same thing but do not live in a parallel time. And even more infinitely versions of yourself that live a life like yours but will never come across this computer game.

You might try to be different, but can you in infinity?

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Reference: Greene, B. (2011). The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and The Deep Laws of the Cosmos. New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf.