Let’s say if we were to meat someone from a different universe where things never die, how would you explain death to them?

  • starman2112@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    I’m going to push back a bit. Ending doesn’t necessitate death. A movie ends. You don’t need an end to have a beginning, either—the positive integers begin at 1. Your second sentence is begging the question. You assert that without death there couldn’t be endings, and change is a kind of ending, so without death there couldn’t be change. But plenty of things change without dying. I used to be a baby. My infancy ended without my infant death.

    If we take OP’s question to include anything that could even metaphorically be compared to death, then there wouldn’t even be such a universe, because any instant in time could be described as the “death” of a prior instant in time

    • reksas@sopuli.xyz
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      2 days ago

      Way I see it, death is something that is in between different states, something ends and something else begins.