Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by Helena on February 12, 2012 at 8:12pm

we get recycled. energy/matter cannot be created or destroyed only transformed into one form or another... so bits of "you" could be anywhere, and we define "you" narrowly, so neuroscience has a perceptional bias.

• ▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Colleen on February 12, 2012 at 10:46pm

Sure "you" could be anywhere, but you can't experience this being as "you" without neural activity.

• ▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Reg The Fronkey Farmer on February 12, 2012 at 6:03pm

I have a theory that many people are in a hazy, dreamlike state before they die. It is the result of religious belief - of living ones life and expecting to live for eternity after death.

• ▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Donald S. Chase on February 12, 2012 at 7:47pm

After you die, you become a memory to those who knew you. Those who liked you will think of you favorably; those who didn't, unfavorably ( hence, heaven and hell ). When there is no-one left on earth to remember you, you cease to exist. My epitath will read  All ye who pass here speak my name that I might attain immortality.

• ▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Helena on February 12, 2012 at 8:09pm

to do that you need RELIGION! LOL

• ▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Rob King on February 12, 2012 at 8:36pm

The world continues on as it had before I was alive. 

• ▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Dylan Morris on February 12, 2012 at 9:05pm

i believe you start to lose the ability to do certain cognitive functions as you would when your dieing. And then everything ceases thats the end.................................. game over

• ▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Ron V on February 12, 2012 at 10:45pm

I agree with the person asking the question- based on everything we know, after we die there is almost certainly nothing- similar to before we were born

 

• ▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Dennis donovan on February 12, 2012 at 10:48pm

i would believe in some form of reincarnation before a true afterlife.  The reason being, the atoms of your body have to go some where.  but at the end of the day i'm expecting a sweet dmt trip before a big black lights out, which im looking forward to

• ▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Stutz on February 13, 2012 at 12:28am

Do you think every animal that's ever lived also exists in a hazy, dreamlike state? If no, what makes you or I so special? Just because we have consciousness and big brains, we don't "die" and cease to exist just like everything else? Where do our hazy consciousnesses exist? Did they exist before we were born?

Your theory opens up a metaphysical can of worms and has no more supporting evidence than God does. It also reeks of hubris, sorry to say.

• ▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by steven on February 13, 2012 at 12:35am

I believe in a sort of reincarnation, based upon the law of conservation of energy. I believe 'I' live on only for the reason that I do not believe 'I' am this body, or this mind, but rather the electrical energy that passes through my synapses at any given point in time. Every person's brain has an individual pattern of neural connections, and I believe that as energy passes through a brain, that brain believes that it is me, when in fact I am just passing through it. So in essence I believe I am everything, and when this body dies I will experience the release of my consciousness from this mind's thoughts while my energy morphs into its next form. Just my opinion though, obviously cannot prove any of that.

• ▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Unseen on February 13, 2012 at 12:59pm

For your energy theory to hold any water, you'd have to also believe in something that maintains its boundaries, feeds in more energy as energy is used up, and so on. That would be the function of the body in a living person. What do you think performs this function in the absence of the body?

Do I feel a reference to a "soul" coming on?

Your belief is of a religious nature, even if one can't ascribe it to one of the established religions.

• ▶ Reply

• ‹ Previous
• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5
• 6
• 7
• Next ›
• Page