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>What is it like to not exist for an eternity?
Existence is a prerequisite for "what is it like" questions. A problem here is that language itself in general is sloppy and misleading e.g. we call something a "sunrise" that's really more of an Earth rotation. In this specific case, the language problem I see is the tendency to say use "existing" like it's an act people participate in like walking when really existence is whether or not you have people to refer to at all. If "you don't exist" it means there is no you, not that you're less solid or hibernating or something.
>Do you actually think you will experience endless non experience?
There is no you if you don't exist. You need to exist to have experiences.
>If you've ever fainted, been unconscious, you know what non existence is like. No time passes. You don't even know how long you were gone for. You faint and then you wake up. If you die, it doesn't matter if you don't exist for a googolplex years or infinity.
If you exists and *suspend* consciousness with drugs or brain injury the subjective result is time travel.
You didn't exist before birth though so instead of time travel you just don't have any experiences to reference before early childhood. It isn't mysterious or troubling that your memories have a hard temporal limit. Nobody really expects an infinite amount of "pre-existence" experiences in their minds from before they were born. Death would be the other limit, where you end. Death wouldn't be like anything because there wouldn't be any you there to experience the point where there's no longer any you.

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