First off thank you for responding logically. The forbidden equation differs from the dartboard paradox in one key way, and it’s that there’s a great significance to where the dart had landed. It didn’t just land anywhere on that dartboard, it landed in the one exact spot where you have consciousness, and everywhere else on that dartboard you do not have consciousness, which is a great significance to you obviously. And really “you” is all we can truly consider here, as anything outside of “I think therefore I am” can be questioned, meaning we don’t truly know if anyone else actually exists. It’s important to make that distinction and separation- that we shouldn’t put so much faith into what can be observed with our 5 senses. Once one considers this could be the simulation Bostrom says it is, or the illusion of Maya as referenced by Hinduism and Buddhism, or the shadows in Plato’s cave allegory, or that they are all one and the same, then instead of a dartboard paradox, the forbidden equation instead serves as a strong indication that this is the truth. Instead of being an extremely improbable anomaly, it now becomes the only sure indication that death does not mean what this reality tells you it means.

It’s really not as crazy as it may first sound. All this is really saying is that time is not linear, which though we perceive it that way, we already are at least partially acknowledging via Einstein’s theory of relativity. I’m suggesting there exists a dimension outside of this one in which time works differently. If time can move in all directions, or is eternal in that dimension, and our consciousness draws from that dimension, then that both solves the forbidden equation and provides an answer as to how our consciousness can continue to exist.