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I understand that the world exists to me only as a manifestation of my senses and for all I know I'm some alien experiment and this is all fake but I may as well operate in the reality I'm dealing with. And in doing that I've concluded that there can't really been an after life unless my brain somehow takes on a ghostly form, which I don't believe could happen. I think if you choose to operate and think within these rules than you'll find we know way more than you're giving credit for. As I stated there's rules of logic that everyone follows in every realm of life except the spiritual realm and when you apply it there the existence of an after life looks highly unlikely. |
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Listen to Bokonon.
We're all part of a plan. |
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I only half-believe this, because it´s a somewhat comforting idea, but I think it´s pretty hard to disprove. |
I guess it´s worth pointing out that I didn´t just pull this out my ass, Hinduism, Schopenhauer, Borges, Leibniz, Edgar Allen Poe and Erwin Schrodinger agree with me :p:
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On the other hand I think that's equally hard to prove.
If your "soul" was to enter another body though would it carry your memories and intellect? If were defined by our thoughts and actions and we don't carry those over with us when we, well reincarnate, then is it really you living after your death? Or just an essence that is in us all moving on to another temporary vessel? Also if you take away the brain from this soul; are you just sort of...a general but ultimately unthinking and unfeeling force? I guess what I'm getting as is my basic problem with this idea. If your brain is gone and you don't carry your personality (I use personality not to describe random quirks but your intellect, thoughts, idealism, actions, memories, etc.) with you and you no longer have the thing (your brain) you use to experience everything you can never really know what happens and you can't really live or be aware of your existence; which I'd consider death. |
I think pure self-awareness is consciousness of the self as nothing, in the sense that Sartre says. I don´t really define myself by my personality or intellect, that´s how other people define me. I feel like I could lose all my memories, my likes, my appearance, my opinions, and there would be something left (a general force, sure) that I recognize as being more fundamentally me. If all my personality experiences is ultimately my diffracted selves, then once I discard of it every personality would still be there, since they must in some sense be in the will/soul, ready to unfold. As such, I´d still be aware of what used to be `Tom´ but defining myself by what is ultimately just a perspective would seem absurd. The brain would just be a symbol Tom has constructed to attempt to understand himself, which seems equally absurd.
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