SpaceGazelle wrote:Can't remember the exact fictional book, but it said when a person dies a whole universe dies with them. Then you study quantum physics and realise that might literally be true. Nature shrugs off such deep losses, as should we.
davyK wrote:I feel that it's probably best to die before technology arrives that makes immortality possible. I doubt we are built to be able to handle that - or maybe we are and such technology would our 2001 monolith heralding the next stage of our development - this might actually just be a quant period of history in which people's consciousness is lost to us.
Elmlea wrote:I'm pretty sure the "many worlds" interpretation talks about decisions splitting universes, but those universes persisting despite what subsequently happens. I've split this universe in 2 by deciding to click "post comment" here, and in the other universe I didn't do it. I don't know if free will's an inescapable part of that, but if it's not, and events split the universe, you could rationalise that death generates a whole new universe, rather than removing one. In the other universe, you didn't die at that moment; but by dying, you've split the universe into a new and unique form.SpaceGazelle wrote:Can't remember the exact fictional book, but it said when a person dies a whole universe dies with them. Then you study quantum physics and realise that might literally be true. Nature shrugs off such deep losses, as should we.
Dark Soldier wrote:Awareness after death would be great. Espesh if you've been cremated.
SpaceGazelle wrote:There is no awareness after death. Once your brain's dead it's game over. It amazes me why anyone could ever think there was more to it. Maths won't help, especially maths using infinites.
SpaceGazelle wrote:Well either evolution is wrong Davy, or the idea of afterlife is wrong. There is incredible evidence for the former and fuck all for the latter. It's literally a bit of a no brainer.
Sasukekun wrote:I'm a big believer in reincarnation, the idea of recycled consciousness.
Elmlea wrote:I like the idea, but I don't understand how the necessary transfer of energy would happen.Sasukekun wrote:I'm a big believer in reincarnation, the idea of recycled consciousness.
GooberTheHat wrote:The only reincarnation I believe in is that the atoms that make up me right now will eventually be present in millions of other creatures.
It's more than difficult, it's impossible. You simply cannot fully comprehend your not existing, because it involves some sort of spectating of the things in your life without you there.Sasukekun wrote:It's just a bit difficult to imagine everything you were disappearing, as unlikely as it seems.
Elmlea wrote:I like the idea, but I don't understand how the necessary transfer of energy would happen.I'm a big believer in reincarnation, the idea of recycled consciousness.
SpaceGazelle wrote:I challenge you to prove anything.
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