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Assuming you are in the Star Trek teleporter camp, which believes that your consciousness continues if you get destroyed somewhere and recreated somewhere else, then if the universe is infinite your consciousness might continue forever.

If the universe is infinite, with infinite matter in all possible configurations, then if you happened to be disintegrated one day, your perfect copy is already waiting for you somewhere out there.

Who knows, maybe you already died a bunch of times, but picked up somewhere else, never noticing that you left. You could still witness others dying of course. Nothing would seem out of the ordinary.

Even the surroundings of your new location in the universe would be the same as accurately as you are able to tell. Information about the planets of the solar system is part of your brain – the new location must also have those planets, otherwise you would not be identical.




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