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I liked his fictional shotgun wielding militant atheist with nylon over his head and a deep woods southern accent. Classy!
There is a chance the universe is infinite in size. A space the size of my body has approximately 10^10^80 (a 1 followed by 10^80 zeroes, a REALLY big number) different quantum states, thus only that many different physical configurations. A lump of rock the shape of my body, me, all different portions of the ocean the size of me, the intestine of a whale about my size, etc. Therefore, if you go out far enough, you will run into an exact copy of the thing typing this sentence on my computer right NOW. Now, picture all the different quantum states over time that I have had since I was conceived, a bazillion crap load of Planck Times. You go out a googolplex meters (10^10^100 m), there is a chance you will run into a duplicate of yourself. This is all hypothetical, of course, but an interesting thing to just think about if you believe in a permanent, indestructible soul.
He's saying if the universe/multiverse is infinite and all things possible are actually happening somewhere, then we are all in existence somewhere all the time. I don't think it is a soul, and someone/thing just like me being in another dimension or another place is still not me. The IP that watched the World Cup yesterday isn't me anymore.
Because of the Planck Length (smallest space in the Universe, as anything smaller is indistinguishable from anything else), you can only have so many different combinations of quantum states in something the size of an average human (10^10^80 roughly). Therefore, if you go out far enough, things have to start duplicating because you just run out of different combinations of matter. Ergo, there is a chance that eventually you will run into an exact duplicate of yourself, completely indistinguishable from you, having the same thoughts, doing the same exact stuff you are doing. Hypothetically, of course.
OK, say you are made up of 20 blocks. You can arrange those blocks in only so many ways until you HAVE to start making duplicates. Now increase that number up to a lot more blocks until you have 10^10^80 ways to arrange those blocks. Eventually, you will have to start making duplicates.
No, because nothingness can extend for infinity. You are confusing size with dimensions, of which there may only be one.
