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Is The Meaning of Your Life "Path Independent"?

Is The Meaning of Your Life "Path Independent"?

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Zohar Atkins
Oct 13, 2020
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Path independence exists if it doesn’t matter how you got somewhere, just that you got there.

Thus my question is a fancy way of asking if the meaning of your life is determined by the aggregate of all the moments you’ve lived (path dependence) or only by the final moment of your life (path independence).

When you stand in judgment at the Gates of Heaven,…

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