The Scientific Explanation for What Happens After Death

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The discussion revolves around theories and beliefs regarding what happens after death, exploring concepts of subjective awareness, existence, and potential rebirth. Participants express a range of views, from existential conclusions to speculative theories, touching on both philosophical and personal reflections.

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  • Conceptual clarification

Main Points Raised

  • One participant proposes that subjective awareness is relocated and suggests the possibility of rebirth as another conscious being after death, emphasizing the continuity of experience.
  • Another participant argues that death leads to a definitive end of existence, expressing skepticism about the idea of rebirth and finding it a depressing notion.
  • A third participant offers a vague suggestion that something happens after death, without elaboration.
  • One participant humorously quotes a poem about decay, reflecting a macabre view of death.
  • A different participant critiques the initial theory as lacking depth, arguing that existence is not from "nowhere" but rather a result of biological processes involving parental DNA and RNA.
  • Another participant echoes the earlier humorous quote about decay, indicating a shared sentiment about the grimness of the topic.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

Participants express a range of competing views on the nature of existence after death, with no consensus reached. Some find the idea of rebirth plausible, while others firmly believe in the finality of death.

Contextual Notes

Participants' arguments rely on personal beliefs and interpretations of existence, with some assumptions about consciousness and the nature of being left unexamined. The discussion does not resolve the complexities surrounding the topic.

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My theory:

Subjective awareness is relocated. Since you can never experience "non-experience" then simply "you" (your memories, experiences, physical traits, qualia etc.) cease to exist. But this does not rule out the possibility of you (as in the experiencer which is "you") being reborn as another conscious being. If you think about it, we just seem to come into existence out of nowhere: "non-existence". When you die is also non-existence therefore I think it is very plausible that we are reborn, of course not as the same people, just as any being able to experience existence.

(I am not religious/spiritual.)Post your thoughts.
 
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I think you die, and that's the end. It sounds plausible that you will have another existence, but I don't believe in that.

Depressing no?

Well, I wouldn't mind some extravagant afterlife. :smile:
 
I'm guessing you get moved.
 
"The worms crawl in, the worms crawl out,
The ants play pinochle on your snout..."
 
Your 'theory' is a bit thin no? ;)

Avalon said:
If you think about it, we just seem to come into existence out of nowhere: "non-existence".

If I think about it, I think my parents had some part to play? Their combined DNA/RNA machinery created me. Encoded in this structure is both the data about me, and the algorithm (chaotic process) that creates me. That's already pretty fantastic if you think about it, but it's surely NOT 'out of nowhere'.

So your theory is bogus imo :)

/Frederic
 
Avalon, this is the FOURTH thread you have started on this subject. Locked.
 
jtbell said:
"The worms crawl in, the worms crawl out,
The ants play pinochle on your snout..."

Very scary; I was going to say the same thing. :biggrin:
 

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