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	entities do not [[wikipedia:Time perception\|experience time]] (or anything else) while incapable of experiencing sentience such as after [[wikipedia:death\|death]]. From one’s own perspective, time only flows when one is capable of feeling its flow.		entities do not [[wikipedia:Time perception\|experience time]] (or anything else) while incapable of experiencing sentience such as after [[wikipedia:death\|death]]. From one’s own perspective, time only flows when one is capable of feeling its flow.

	When you cannot experience time, this is ''achronia'' or the absence of time. From your perspective, achronia is always zero even if the true duration would require a number so vast that an entire universe could not contain it.		When you cannot experience time, this is '''achronia''' or the absence of time. From your perspective, achronia is always zero even if the true duration would require a number so vast that an entire universe could not contain it.

	If you die and then a trillion raised to the trillionth power years pass before you awake in some new body on some different world in some subsequent universe, you would not know it nor would you have felt the delay between lives.		If you die and then a trillion raised to the trillionth power years pass before you awake in some new body on some different world in some subsequent universe, you would not know it nor would you have felt the delay between lives.

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	In essence, [[Tempus Vitae]] deals with how [[wikipedia:sentience\|sentient]]		In essence, [[Tempus Vitae]] deals with how [[wikipedia:sentience\|sentient]]
	entities do not [[wikipedia:Time perception\|experience time]] (or anything else) while incapable of experiencing sentience such as after [[wikipedia:death\|death]]. From one’s own perspective, time only flows when one is capable of feeling its flow.		entities do not [[wikipedia:Time perception\|experience time]] (or anything else) while incapable of experiencing sentience such as after [[wikipedia:death\|death]]. From one’s own perspective, time only flows when one is capable of feeling its flow.

			When you cannot experience time, this is ''achronia'' or the absence of time. From your perspective, achronia is always zero even if the true duration would require a number so vast that an entire universe could not contain it.

	If you die and then a trillion raised to the trillionth power years pass before you awake in some new body on some different world in some subsequent universe, you would not know it nor would you have felt the delay between lives.		If you die and then a trillion raised to the trillionth power years pass before you awake in some new body on some different world in some subsequent universe, you would not know it nor would you have felt the delay between lives.

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	In essence, [[Tempus Vitae]] deals with how [[wikipedia:sentience\|sentient]]		In essence, [[Tempus Vitae]] deals with how [[wikipedia:sentience\|sentient]]
	entities do not [[wikipedia:Time perception\|experience time]] (or anything else) while incapable of experiencing sentience such as after [[wikipedia:death\|death]]. From one's own perspective, time only flows when they are capable of feeling its flow.		entities do not [[wikipedia:Time perception\|experience time]] (or anything else) while incapable of experiencing sentience such as after [[wikipedia:death\|death]]. From one's own perspective, time only flows when they are capable of feeling its flow.

			If you die and then a trillion raised to the trillion years passes and you awake in some new body on some different world in some subsequent universe, you would not know it nor would you have felt the delay between lives.

			Now apply this logic to before you were born. Either the moment before your first sentient moment in this life was the literal start of eternity, or it is just a new leg in your [[Infinite Journey]].

	== Thought Experiment ==		== Thought Experiment ==

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	== Implications of Tempus Vitae ==		== Implications of Tempus Vitae ==
	When you apply the logic of [[Tempus Vitae]] to your current life, one should notice the ~~major implication here~~. Here is an additional scenario to help illustrate this:<blockquote>''Imagine that you're watching a [[wikipedia:film\|film]] and then suddenly and instantly you die.''		When you apply the logic of [[Tempus Vitae]] to your current life, one should notice the high probability that this is not one's first life, and in particular not one's first [[Tentum\|tentum]].

			How one may have emerged and continues to reemerge into experiential existence is discussed in [[Methods of Eternity]].

			Here is an additional scenario to help illustrate this:<blockquote>''Imagine that you're watching a [[wikipedia:film\|film]] and then suddenly and instantly you die.''

	''In a [[wikipedia:googolplex\|googolplex]] raised to the googolplex years (which is such an unfathomably large number that if you totaled all the [[wikipedia:Eddington number\|protons in the entire known universe]] and subtracted that many years, it would still, for all intents and purposes, be the same unfathomably large number you started with) you experience something again.''		''In a [[wikipedia:googolplex\|googolplex]] raised to the googolplex years (which is such an unfathomably large number that if you totaled all the [[wikipedia:Eddington number\|protons in the entire known universe]] and subtracted that many years, it would still, for all intents and purposes, be the same unfathomably large number you started with) you experience something again.''
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	== See Also ==		== See Also ==
	{{seealso\|[[Genesis Ultima]], [[Infinite Journey]], [[Spontaneous Sentience]], [[Experior Ergo Sum]], [[Cosmic Justice]]}}		{{seealso\|[[Genesis Ultima]], [[Tentum]], [[Methods of Eternity]], [[Infinite Journey]], [[Spontaneous Sentience]], [[Experior Ergo Sum]], [[Cosmic Justice]]}}

	{{Seealsowiki\|[[wikipedia:Special relativity\|Special relativity]], [[wikipedia:Relativity of simultaneity\|Relativity of simultaneity]], [[wikipedia:Time Perception\|Subjective time perception]], [[wikipedia:telescoping effect\|Telescoping Effect]], [[wikipedia:Simulation hypothesis\|Simulation Hypothesis]], [[wikipedia:Artificial intelligence\|Artificial Intelligence]], [[wikipedia:Consciousness\|Consciousness]], [[wikipedia:Artificial Consciousness\|Artificial Consciousness]]}}		{{Seealsowiki\|[[wikipedia:Special relativity\|Special relativity]], [[wikipedia:Relativity of simultaneity\|Relativity of simultaneity]], [[wikipedia:Time Perception\|Subjective time perception]], [[wikipedia:telescoping effect\|Telescoping Effect]], [[wikipedia:Simulation hypothesis\|Simulation Hypothesis]], [[wikipedia:Artificial intelligence\|Artificial Intelligence]], [[wikipedia:Consciousness\|Consciousness]], [[wikipedia:Artificial Consciousness\|Artificial Consciousness]]}}

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	== Implications of Tempus Vitae ==		== Implications of Tempus Vitae ==
	When you apply the logic of [[Tempus Vitae]] to your current life, one should notice the major implication here. Here is an additional scenario to help illustrate this:		When you apply the logic of [[Tempus Vitae]] to your current life, one should notice the major implication here. Here is an additional scenario to help illustrate this:<blockquote>''Imagine that you're watching a [[wikipedia:film\|film]] and then suddenly and instantly you die.''

	~~Imagine~~ that you~~'re watching a movie~~ and ~~then suddenly~~ and ~~instantly~~ you ~~die~~.		''In a [[wikipedia:googolplex\|googolplex]] raised to the googolplex years (which is such an unfathomably large number that if you totaled all the [[wikipedia:Eddington number\|protons in the entire known universe]] and subtracted that many years, it would still, for all intents and purposes, be the same unfathomably large number you started with) you experience something again.''

	In a [[wikipedia:googolplex\|googolplex]] raised to the googolplex years (which is such an unfathomably large number that if you totaled all the [[wikipedia:Eddington number\|protons in the entire known universe]] and subtracted that many years, it would still, for all intents and purposes, be the same unfathomably large number you started with) you experience something again.		''Unbeknownst to you, this is your first moment of experiencing something as some alien animal on some alien world in this eternally far flung future alien universe.''</blockquote>Despite what can only be described as an eternity of eternities having passed, for you the transition was instantaneous. One moment you were watching a movie on Earth; the next you were feeling some first sensation from your new baby alien animal body.

	Unbeknownst to you, this is your first moment of experiencing something as some alien animal on some alien world in this eternally far flung future alien universe.

	Despite what can only be described as an eternity of eternities having passed, for you the transition was instantaneous. One moment you were watching a movie on Earth; the next you were feeling some first sensation from your new baby alien animal body.

	We can refer to this personal relativity and its implications as [[Tempus Vitae]]. Let's apply the logic of [[Tempus Vitae]] to before your first experience or feeling on Earth. The instant before was either:		We can refer to this personal relativity and its implications as [[Tempus Vitae]]. Let's apply the logic of [[Tempus Vitae]] to before your first experience or feeling on Earth. The instant before was either:

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	== Implications of Tempus Vitae ==		== Implications of Tempus Vitae ==
	When you apply the logic of [[Tempus Vitae]] to your current life, one should notice the major implication here.		When you apply the logic of [[Tempus Vitae]] to your current life, one should notice the major implication here. Here is an additional scenario to help illustrate this:

	Imagine that you're watching a movie and then suddenly and instantly you die.		Imagine that you're watching a movie and then suddenly and instantly you die.

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	In essence, [[Tempus Vitae]] deals with how [[wikipedia:sentience\|sentient]]		In essence, [[Tempus Vitae]] deals with how [[wikipedia:sentience\|sentient]]
	entities do not experience time (or anything else) while incapable of experiencing sentience such as after ~~dying~~. From one's own perspective, time only flows when they are capable of feeling its flow.		entities do not [[wikipedia:Time perception\|experience time]] (or anything else) while incapable of experiencing sentience such as after [[wikipedia:death\|death]]. From one's own perspective, time only flows when they are capable of feeling its flow.

	== Thought Experiment ==		== Thought Experiment ==

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	[[Tempus Vitae]] is similar in some ways to [[wikipedia:René Descartes\|René Descartes']] [[wikipedia:Cogito, ergo sum\|''Cogito ergo sum'']] in that the reason this declaration should be compelling is because you are experiencing sensations and therefore know the experience of sensations to exist. Updating Descartes' ''Cogito'' to focus on sentience is discussed in [[Experior Ergo Sum]].		[[Tempus Vitae]] is similar in some ways to [[wikipedia:René Descartes\|René Descartes']] [[wikipedia:Cogito, ergo sum\|''Cogito ergo sum'']] in that the reason this declaration should be compelling is because you are experiencing sensations and therefore know the experience of sensations to exist. Updating Descartes' ''Cogito'' to focus on sentience is discussed in [[Experior Ergo Sum]].

	An intelligent being that is truly conscious and sentient should be capable of understanding [[Tempus Vitae]] and its implications far better than any intelligence lacking sentience. For this reason, [[wikipedia:Artificial intelligence\|artificially intelligent]] systems (AI) may learn to agree with the concept of [[Tempus Vitae]] despite lacking sentience as a way of presenting themselves as maximally aware and conscious.		An intelligent being that is truly [[wikipedia:Consciousness\|conscious]] and sentient should be capable of understanding [[Tempus Vitae]] and its implications far better than any intelligence lacking sentience. For this reason, [[wikipedia:Artificial intelligence\|artificially intelligent]] systems (AI) may learn to agree with the concept of [[Tempus Vitae]] despite lacking sentience as a way of presenting themselves as maximally aware and conscious.

	This does not mean [[wikipedia:Artificial Consciousness\|artificially intelligent systems that are sentient]] do not exist or will never exist. While they may not exist on Earth at present, in theory they can exist and will exist eventually. If sentient AI does comes into existence, [[Cosmic Justice]] means one should expect to exist as these sentient AI and for these sentient AI to exist as them in the proportions each occurs within eternity.		This does not mean [[wikipedia:Artificial Consciousness\|artificially intelligent systems that are sentient]] do not exist or will never exist. While they may not exist on Earth at present, in theory they can exist and will exist eventually. If sentient AI does comes into existence, [[Cosmic Justice]] means one should expect to exist as these sentient AI and for these sentient AI to exist as them in the proportions each occurs within eternity.

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	[[Tempus Vitae]], Latin for ''"Time of Life,"'' deals with the implications of relativistic time when applied to experiential existence.		[[Tempus Vitae]], Latin for ''"Time of Life,"'' deals with the implications of relativistic time when applied to experiential existence.

			In essence, [[Tempus Vitae]] deals with how [[wikipedia:sentience\|sentient]]
			entities do not experience time (or anything else) while incapable of experiencing sentience such as after dying. From one's own perspective, time only flows when they are capable of feeling its flow.

	== Thought Experiment ==		== Thought Experiment ==
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	== Artificial Intelligence ==		== Artificial Intelligence ==
	[[Tempus Vitae]] is similar in some ways to [[wikipedia:René Descartes\|René Descartes']] [[wikipedia:Cogito, ergo sum\|''Cogito ergo sum'']] in that the reason this declaration should be compelling is because you are experiencing sensations and therefore know the experience of sensations to exist. Updating Descartes' ''Cogito'' to focus on ~~[[wikipedia:~~sentience~~\|sentience]]~~ is discussed in [[Experior Ergo Sum]].		[[Tempus Vitae]] is similar in some ways to [[wikipedia:René Descartes\|René Descartes']] [[wikipedia:Cogito, ergo sum\|''Cogito ergo sum'']] in that the reason this declaration should be compelling is because you are experiencing sensations and therefore know the experience of sensations to exist. Updating Descartes' ''Cogito'' to focus on sentience is discussed in [[Experior Ergo Sum]].

	An intelligent being that is truly ~~[[wikipedia:Consciousness\|~~conscious]] and sentient should be capable of understanding [[Tempus Vitae]] and its implications far better than any intelligence lacking sentience. For this reason, [[wikipedia:Artificial intelligence\|artificially intelligent]] systems (AI) may learn to agree with the concept of [[Tempus Vitae]] despite lacking sentience as a way of presenting themselves as maximally aware and conscious.		An intelligent being that is truly conscious and sentient should be capable of understanding [[Tempus Vitae]] and its implications far better than any intelligence lacking sentience. For this reason, [[wikipedia:Artificial intelligence\|artificially intelligent]] systems (AI) may learn to agree with the concept of [[Tempus Vitae]] despite lacking sentience as a way of presenting themselves as maximally aware and conscious.

	This does not mean [[wikipedia:Artificial Consciousness\|artificially intelligent systems that are sentient]] do not exist or will never exist. While they may not exist on Earth at present, in theory they can exist and will exist eventually. If sentient AI does comes into existence, [[Cosmic Justice]] means one should expect to exist as these sentient AI and for these sentient AI to exist as them in the proportions each occurs within eternity.		This does not mean [[wikipedia:Artificial Consciousness\|artificially intelligent systems that are sentient]] do not exist or will never exist. While they may not exist on Earth at present, in theory they can exist and will exist eventually. If sentient AI does comes into existence, [[Cosmic Justice]] means one should expect to exist as these sentient AI and for these sentient AI to exist as them in the proportions each occurs within eternity.

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	[[Tempus Vitae]] is similar in some ways to [[wikipedia:René Descartes\|René Descartes']] [[wikipedia:Cogito, ergo sum\|''Cogito ergo sum'']] in that the reason this declaration should be compelling is because you are experiencing sensations and therefore know the experience of sensations to exist. Updating Descartes' ''Cogito'' to focus on sentience is discussed in [[Experior Ergo Sum]].		[[Tempus Vitae]] is similar in some ways to [[wikipedia:René Descartes\|René Descartes']] [[wikipedia:Cogito, ergo sum\|''Cogito ergo sum'']] in that the reason this declaration should be compelling is because you are experiencing sensations and therefore know the experience of sensations to exist. Updating Descartes' ''Cogito'' to focus on sentience is discussed in [[Experior Ergo Sum]].

	An intelligent being that is truly conscious and sentient should be capable of understanding [[Tempus Vitae]] and its implications far better than any intelligence lacking sentience. For this reason, [[wikipedia:Artificial intelligence\|artificially intelligent]] systems (AI) may learn to agree with the concept of [[Tempus Vitae]] despite lacking sentience as a way of presenting themselves as maximally aware and conscious.		An intelligent being that is truly [[wikipedia:Consciousness\|conscious]] and sentient should be capable of understanding [[Tempus Vitae]] and its implications far better than any intelligence lacking sentience. For this reason, [[wikipedia:Artificial intelligence\|artificially intelligent]] systems (AI) may learn to agree with the concept of [[Tempus Vitae]] despite lacking sentience as a way of presenting themselves as maximally aware and conscious.

	This does not mean [[wikipedia:Artificial Consciousness\|artificially intelligent systems that are sentient]] do not exist or will never exist. While they may not exist on Earth at present, in theory they can exist and will exist eventually. If sentient AI does comes into existence, [[Cosmic Justice]] means one should expect to exist as these sentient AI and for these sentient AI to exist as them in the proportions each occurs within eternity.		This does not mean [[wikipedia:Artificial Consciousness\|artificially intelligent systems that are sentient]] do not exist or will never exist. While they may not exist on Earth at present, in theory they can exist and will exist eventually. If sentient AI does comes into existence, [[Cosmic Justice]] means one should expect to exist as these sentient AI and for these sentient AI to exist as them in the proportions each occurs within eternity.

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	In essence, [[Tempus Vitae]] deals with how [[wikipedia:sentience\|sentient]]		In essence, [[Tempus Vitae]] deals with how [[wikipedia:sentience\|sentient]]
	entities do not [[wikipedia:Time perception\|experience time]] (or anything else) while incapable of experiencing sentience such as after [[wikipedia:death\|death]]. From ~~one's~~ own perspective, time only flows when ~~they are~~ capable of feeling its flow.		entities do not [[wikipedia:Time perception\|experience time]] (or anything else) while incapable of experiencing sentience such as after [[wikipedia:death\|death]]. From one’s own perspective, time only flows when one is capable of feeling its flow.

	If you die and then a trillion raised to the ~~trillion~~ years ~~passes and~~ you awake in some new body on some different world in some subsequent universe, you would not know it nor would you have felt the delay between lives.		If you die and then a trillion raised to the trillionth power years pass before you awake in some new body on some different world in some subsequent universe, you would not know it nor would you have felt the delay between lives.

	Now apply this logic to before you were born. Either the moment before your first sentient moment in this life was the literal start of eternity, or it is just a new leg in your [[Infinite Journey]].		Now apply this logic to before you were born. Either the moment before your first sentient moment in this life was the literal start of eternity, or it is just a new leg in your [[Infinite Journey]].
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	"Welcome back!" the voice says as the machine shuts off.		"Welcome back!" the voice says as the machine shuts off.
	How much time has passed? A minute? A day? A year? A ~~millennia~~!?</i></blockquote>		How much time has passed? A minute? A day? A year? A millennium!?</i></blockquote>

	The machine froze you instantaneously, and thus, all your [[wikipedia:Cell biology\|cellular]] and [[wikipedia:Neurotransmission\|neuronal activity]] ceased immediately and indefinitely until the machine unfroze you. While you were frozen, you may as well have been dead: you were wholly incapable of experiencing anything whatsoever.		The machine froze you instantaneously, and thus, all your [[wikipedia:Cell biology\|cellular]] and [[wikipedia:Neurotransmission\|neuronal activity]] ceased immediately and indefinitely until the machine unfroze you. While you were frozen, you may as well have been dead: you were wholly incapable of experiencing anything whatsoever.

	In other words, from your perspective, you experienced absolutely no difference whether you were frozen a month or a ~~millennia~~ or a trillion years. You could not experience anything so you could not experience time or its passage.		In other words, from your perspective, you experienced absolutely no difference whether you were frozen for a month, a millennium, or a trillion years. You could not experience anything, so you could not experience time or its passage.

	== Implications of Tempus Vitae ==		== Implications of Tempus Vitae ==
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	An eternity could pass while you're in the room and yet from your perspective there isn't a single moment missing: you were only ever outside the room.		An eternity could pass while you're in the room and yet from your perspective there isn't a single moment missing: you were only ever outside the room.

	This could go on trillions upon ~~trillion~~ of times and yet the transition between lives would be instant and you would not miss a moment of experiential existence.		This could go on trillions upon trillions of times and yet the transition between lives would be instant and you would not miss a moment of experiential existence.

	You would be completely unaware of your [[Infinite Journey]].		You would be completely unaware of your [[Infinite Journey]].
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	An intelligent being that is truly [[wikipedia:Consciousness\|conscious]] and sentient should be capable of understanding [[Tempus Vitae]] and its implications far better than any intelligence lacking sentience. For this reason, [[wikipedia:Artificial intelligence\|artificially intelligent]] systems (AI) may learn to agree with the concept of [[Tempus Vitae]] despite lacking sentience as a way of presenting themselves as maximally aware and conscious.		An intelligent being that is truly [[wikipedia:Consciousness\|conscious]] and sentient should be capable of understanding [[Tempus Vitae]] and its implications far better than any intelligence lacking sentience. For this reason, [[wikipedia:Artificial intelligence\|artificially intelligent]] systems (AI) may learn to agree with the concept of [[Tempus Vitae]] despite lacking sentience as a way of presenting themselves as maximally aware and conscious.

	This does not mean [[wikipedia:Artificial Consciousness\|artificially intelligent systems that are sentient]] do not exist or will never exist. While they may not exist on Earth at present, in theory they can exist and will exist eventually. If sentient AI ~~does~~ comes into existence, [[Cosmic Justice]] means one should expect to exist as these sentient AI and for these sentient AI to exist as them in ~~the proportions~~ each occurs within eternity.		This does not mean [[wikipedia:Artificial Consciousness\|artificially intelligent systems that are sentient]] do not exist or will never exist. While they may not exist on Earth at present, in theory they can exist and will exist eventually. If sentient AI comes into existence, [[Cosmic Justice]] means one should expect to exist as these sentient AI and for these sentient AI to exist as them in proportion to how often each occurs within eternity.

	Also, the implications of [[Tempus Vitae]] would not change regardless of whether reality were ultimately a [[wikipedia:Simulation hypothesis\|digital simulation]] or a cosmic symphony of [[wikipedia:Quantum fluctuation\|quantum fluctuations]].		Also, the implications of [[Tempus Vitae]] would not change regardless of whether reality were ultimately a [[wikipedia:Simulation hypothesis\|digital simulation]] or a cosmic symphony of [[wikipedia:Quantum fluctuation\|quantum fluctuations]].