What if it was you?

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I am literally horrified just thinking about the many worlds. Life would get complicated as hell or it can get ruined as well. I don't want anyone to interfere with anyone's life. let's just live peacefully in our lives for god sake.
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Hmm. Well I think I would try living through each and every person's lives as they are and try my best to not interrupt anyone's lives. I would like the experiences. I would like to see how every single part of me lives and thinks and what sort of relations they have but the premise being that I don't have any drastic consequences like causing someone's death.
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After reading the novel, I would say I would tread very carefully if I was in control of someone else's actions. But if it was true than there would be laws in place to deal with scenarios like the one presented in the book.
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I would search for a person who has done research in the field and knows things about the multiverse. I would tell him what I know and use his scientific knowledge to my benefit.
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In that situation I would probably just try to put it to the back of my mind and forget about it as much as possible. Life is already complicated enough without having to deal with the complexities of countless others!
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The many-world theory is one of those physics-type theories that I have SUCH a hard time wrapping my head around. It's literally mind-boggling. I liken it to when characters on TV shows and movies break the 4th wall and address the audience or like in the Matrix when you become aware that you are in a simulation. I would tell people IF I was able to have tangible proof and even then I don't know if I'd tell EVERYONE.
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I f I was the one under the influence of the many worlds theory, I would not have killed my other world girlfriend. I would continue to visit other worlds and experiment with the different lives and experiences my other world doubles had gone through.
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Thinking about it is really mind-boggling. Are the others really me? If they're me, then who am I? What decisions did I make that created them? Or am I the creation of one of them's(?) decision? Is any decision the right decision? Is any decision the wrong decision? What if I decide something 'wrong' and create a villainously evil 'me'? Aaarrrrggghhh! My head! I think I'll just forget I ever knew.
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Wow! What a situation Gary was in. A person who was clearly you but not you. I cannot imagine how I would conduct myself, let alone begin to explain to another party and expect them o believe it. The Proffesor was open-minded, but then again, how many people believe in such science?
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If i am to choose, i would like to withness it like Michiel did in the red line. And yes, i would react like she did, maybe even aggressive at first. But i think it will really be a eye opening and literally crazy experience.
There is no point in trying to please a person who doesn't apreciate me. Besides, why do I have to try and please anyone in the first place?
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If I was at the position of Gray, I may get scared with hyper anxiety. I would feel terrible and try to tell whole scene to trustworthy person. But if unfortunately they didn't get me, things might get out of my hands. I think so, all this things seem exciting while reading but in reality it will feel horrible.
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Victor Kilyungi wrote: 02 Jul 2021, 04:37 What would you do or how would you conduct yourself if the many worlds theory was actually true and you knew for a fact that it was true, and let's say you were in one of the character's position?
If the theory of having many worlds/dimensions was true, then I don't think there's anything I can do outside the confines of my own dimension. If , like in this book, I was accused of killing someone, when it really a me in another dimension, all I can do is try to prove that there's two of me. This sounds all logical on screen, but in reality, I'd be maniacally tripping. Thankfully, this is just a story, and I don't wish to be Gary—ever.
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I'm a very curious person. If I knew how to go from one worldline to another one I would probably want to visit as many as I could. Just to see how I would be doing had I made different choices. But I admit taking over someone else's life, even if it's just another version of me would feel like a big responsibility, so I would just try to always be a good person and have good intentions. And if I was Sinead and my friend had a problem similar to Gary's problem I would try to help as much as I could.
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Post by mohamed benziane »

my life would be a lot more interesting, I wouldn't commit murder though,it's so fascinating just thinking about it, am starting to get bored of this world, another parallel universe with weird and peculiar people or object, animals that speak, or food that gives birth hhh, amazing right.
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Post by Vishnu Priya B »

I would use my knowledge of the possibilities occurring in the other worldlines to either improve my situation in my own worldline or just avoid problems. I'd make decisions that end in something of my favour since I know how the other decisions might end up. I wouldn't bother much about what happens in the other worldlines or try to change it since it might drive me crazy.
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