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Religion aside; Logically, what happens after death?

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NewYorksFinest

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Religion aside; Logically, what happens after death?
This is what I am coming up with and would love to here others opinions.
After death the brain will cease to function within seconds. No electrical impulses
will transmit. Thus, we will not be able to think and our consciousness will
no longer exist. It will literally be like we do no exist and never had existed.
We won't feel, think, or even know we are dead because that's impossible.
This may seem bad, but in reality, you will and never could possibly know.

Basically, it is the same as before when you were born. Do you remember a thing? Exactly.

I just want to know if there is another logical theory that could be possible besides this one?
 
There is no logical theory, only guesses.

Either our consciousness blinks out like a light or something else happens. If it's "something else" the only people that know what that is are dead so those of us alive have no way of knowing.
 
NewYorksFinest said:
After death the brain will cease to function within seconds. No electrical impulses
will transmit. Thus, we will not be able to think and our consciousness will
no longer exist. It will literally be like we do no exist and never had existed.
We won't feel, think, or even know we are dead because that's impossible.
This may seem bad, but in reality, you will and never could possibly know.
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Yep, it's like watching Wrecking Ball, only longer.
 
soul takes a new body depending on your conciousness at the time of death.

if you're lucky, you won't get reborn.


basically, life is just studying for the final exam, death.
 
you get eternal rewards or eternal punishments mostly depending on your mtDNA haplogroup, but someone without UK, A, or D can be saved if they lived a productive life. if Ben Franklin really was a member of the V mtDNA haplogroup, then he was a saved one.
 
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I will be disappearing into thin air and immediately becoming part of the Force. Not sure what you guys have worked out for yourselves.
 
NewYorksFinest said:
Religion aside; Logically, what happens after death?
This is what I am coming up with and would love to here others opinions.
After death the brain will cease to function within seconds. No electrical impulses
will transmit. Thus, we will not be able to think and our consciousness will
no longer exist. It will literally be like we do no exist and never had existed.
We won't feel, think, or even know we are dead because that's impossible.
This may seem bad, but in reality, you will and never could possibly know.

Basically, it is the same as before when you were born. Do you remember a thing? Exactly.

I just want to know if there is another logical theory that could be possible besides this one?
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Your novel ideas on this subject are fascinating. I've never heard it described in this way. Simply astounding.
 
sounds a little like the quantum immortality stuff. there's a multiverse and as you can't experience your own death (not aware any more), then the other version of you who didn't die lives on. therefore you carry on being aware and alive.

or something like that anyway
 
NewYorksFinest said:
Religion aside; Logically, what happens after death?
This is what I am coming up with and would love to here others opinions.
After death the brain will cease to function within seconds. No electrical impulses
will transmit. Thus, we will not be able to think and our consciousness will
no longer exist. It will literally be like we do no exist and never had existed.
We won't feel, think, or even know we are dead because that's impossible.
This may seem bad, but in reality, you will and never could possibly know.

Basically, it is the same as before when you were born. Do you remember a thing? Exactly.

I just want to know if there is another logical theory that could be possible besides this one?
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Well put.

The idea of an afterlife seems linked to morality tales. Be good and you'll live on forever in a really nice place, be bad and you'll live forever in torture.

Even though I don't see my Buddhist leanings as religious, even they believe we live on in a higher state with new lessons to learn IF we've learned and lived The Four Noble Truths and the eightfold path (which I attempt to live in every moment) in this lifetime.

http://www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/8foldpath.htm

Otherwise you'll come back in a 'lower' form to relearn it all over again, which I don't believe. I believe what you said.

I think there are much more compelling reasons to be a good person than to live on comfortably. That seems greedy.
 
One way of looking at it is to conjecture that there is one entity (god, source, whatever) of which we are all aspects who experience possibilities (life). Dying is a transformation into more experiences.

In a particular experiential aspect, if you've lived in a box your whole life you don't know what's outside the box or even that you are in a box. We define life according to our current aspect, ie, living tissue having experiences in this consensus reality.

"After death...we will not be able to think and our consciousness will
no longer exist."

Perhaps, if that consciousness is defined as the particular aspect you are in. A limited consciousness may be necessary in order to experience the aspect you are in.
 
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The worms crawl in, the worms crawl out,
The worms play pinochle in your snout,
They eat your eyes, they eat your nose,
They eat the jelly between your toes.
A big green worm with rolling eyes
Crawls in your stomach and out your eyes.
Your stomach turns a slimy green,
And pus pours out like whipping cream.
 
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