What do you think of theory that we go to a parallel universe when we die?

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Seen this on TikTok. Something to do with quantum theory proving that our consciousness goes to a parellel universe when we die, and we continue life in that universe.

To me, this is worse than the idea of nothingness after death. What if you travel to a bad parallel universe? No thanks.

What do you think, is it plausible or is it woo?

So I get hit by a bus, then poof I’m in the universe where I married Robbie from Take That, didn’t eat 1000 Mars bars but did fall off that horse and got a neck tattoo? That’s going to be more of a shock than the bus!
I wish we could learn everything from Tik Tok shit would fall apart fast but we’d be happy.

Seems like woo bollox.

I think it’s bollocks OP, obviously

There is a bit of a woo trend amongst teens right now.

I can't see how it would work. If you already have a conscious in the parallel universe making different decisions. Why does your conscious from this universe need to go there when you die. What would happen to that conscious? Maybe I'm misunderstanding?

It sounds like a right load of old cobblers to me. And even if it was true what difference would it make? Has anyone worked out how to extract a consciousness from a body & attach some kind of tracking device to it and then bring it back and download the data to discovered where it travelled to? If you aren't conscious of your travelling consciousness how does it inform anything? What even is consciousness? We are entering the realms of fantasy accompanied no doubt by some fancy maths. In the real world I've got some washing to put on.

See, this is the advantage of organised mainstream religions. You might still think what they’re teaching is mad, but at least it’s mad with a long history of people thinking through the metaphysics beyond a TikTok video.

Fascinating theory

Well you're not aware of your multiple other selves now, so why would you be able to enter into their lives, to transport consciousness from one life to another, later?

Also, all your selves are going to die in the end. Maybe you, here are the longest-lived version.

Basically, it's bollocks / it's far more complex than most people discussing it recognise and can only meaningfully be discussed by physicists and philosophers.

I think it’s bollocks OP, obviously

There is a bit of a woo trend amongst teens right now.

I don’t see why its obviously bollocks. I don’t think it’s as simple as the OP is describing it or imagines it. But space and time are very complex things and most of us can only interpret it in the way we perceive it, not as it is or may be.
I’ve watched a few Professor Brian Cox programs, I don’t understand half of it really but I still enjoy it and find it interesting. I’m sure in one program he was talking about black holes and there was something along the lines knowledge existing in two places at once. I didn’t understand it fully, it was very confusing 😂 but that’s what I mean - this sort of thing is so confusing that it sounds like ‘obvious bollocks’ but very clever scientists are able to look beyond our every day perception of the world. Not to say we should take these complex theories and then simplify them into basic notions of reincarnation.
But we do already sort of know that time is not constant, it passes at different speeds in different places. Time may also not be linear, with a beginning and end - and perhaps it can in some way go in more than one direction - is not a fantasy idea.

It's bollocks. When you die you're dead and cease to exist and that's it.

I wouldn’t mind it as I wouldn’t have any idea that’s the case. The fact you’re asking shows that if it’s true then we retain no memory of past lives. Although DS has talked about his past parents and grandparents since he was about 2 😄 I reckon when you die it’s just the same as it was before you were born. Which was fine!

I really hope so

stuff like this theory, and reincarnation, just horrify me.

Is this not just someone rejigging the concept of heaven and believing they have re invented the wheel?

Yup.

If your multiple selves already exist (plus all your multiple 'not selves' - all the other eggs and sperm that could have collided, all the other people your parents could have met, etc and so on...) and you're not aware of any of them, there is no reason to think that that would change in death - except for a yearning to continue living, somewhere.

This may be a simple confusion between 'self as actor' and 'self as observer'. That is, there may be multiple versions of you out there 'acting as you' in some way, without your awareness, but that does not give you access to their thoughts and eyes.

I find that reflection interesting. Would you regard yourself as continuing to live, if the 'essence of you' was identified and coded into a robot that behaved and reacted to events in the way you would have? That is in effect you persisting and playing an active role in the world. Or, would you regard yourself as continuing to live, if your consciousness was implanted into a passive medium, so that you only observed? Or both, or neither?

Anyway, the OP's question is the sort that relies upon a strong academic background in philosophy or physics to engage with meaningfully at all. The rest of us can merely speculate pointlessly from a position of flat-earthish incomprehension. Fun and mentally stimulating but meaningless. (Much like our lives, ha ha!).

Maybe some of those tiktokers and their followers will become interested enough to pursue their interests through education. That would be positive. Maybe in 30 years one of them will have written the decisive paper on the topic!