So Nietzche's 'eternal recurrence' thought-experiment is actually true, right?
While it can be true in some philosophical way, but you need highly esoteric and truly elaborate cosmology to support it in purely physical sense.
>>2568665
>but you need highly esoteric and truly elaborate cosmology to support it in purely physical sense.
No you don't.
You need a Big Bang, after which the Universe keeps expanding until it reaches a point where it can no longer do so and so the Universe contracts once more into an infinitely dense point (the so-called 'Big Crunch').
The Big Bang occurs again, at this point.
>>2568816
You need hard determinism on top of all that for events to repeat itself or it would be just another universe with barely anything same.
The point isn't whether not it actually is true or whatever, the point is to live your life well enough where you wouldn't mind if it were.
No. But it's a better afterlife than any other, in terms of how much it encourages people to act morally in the real world.