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The Case Against Afterlife

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Perhaps an arrangement of particles & forces of nature holding the particles together is who/what is asking the question. Or you could say a network of neurons. Just the brain, wants to know who/what it is. And what it is is just brain function/brain activity. Consciousness maybe mistakenly appears like it’s something more, when in actuality it’s just brain function. That’s my answer (though I don’t buy into it fully). Am I an arrangement of particles? Maybe or maybe not. So death happens to an experience, not to the presence in which the experience is happening. But why should sleeping/or coma/or syncope make you go unconscious? You might say, I wasn’t really unconscious, I was experiencing something – it just wasn’t remembered once I awoke from sleep/coma/syncope. But isn’t it more parsimonious to just say you simple weren’t there? Where are you then, when you’re in deep sleep/slow-wave sleep or passed out/fainted from your body overheating on a summer day of 95...

Condemned To Experience An Infinity Of Egoic Existences For Eternity?

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So, say we are this infinite self behind the ego. And when we die we cease being this particular personality it’s wearing and remember what we really are. So are we done, and will never wear a personality again? Or will we come out of infinite self to once again experience a mask/personality? Meaning, wearing personalities for eternity is the long scale situation for the ultimate/infinite self. According to the multiverse or even if you believe in an infinite universe, it means there’s an infinity of personalities/bodies inhabiting this universe/reality. Am I going to experience myself as each and every one of these personalities/bodies/organisms inhabiting the multiverse/infinite universe? Meaning I’ll experience myself as each and every person and animal on this Earth once or possibly endless times into infinity.

Would There Be Physical Reality If There Were No Consciousnesses Anywhere Ever?

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You can’t say there’d be a physical reality if there were no consciousnesses anywhere ever. Can you? We’re supposed to believe that we pop into existence at some random point, in some random moment, in the infinity of physical reality . Why should it be us? Why should consciousness ever be attached to some physical object. Why doesn’t physical reality have no subjectivities attached to it? Why shouldn’t physical reality have no subject dependent on the object. What if subjectivity couldn’t exist without physicality, and physicality couldn’t exist without subjectivity. Perhaps they go together, impossible to disentangle one from the other. Why shouldn’t physical reality be there without knowing it’s there. Everything entirely as it is, planets, people, animals, trees, galaxies, stars, nebula, supernovas, black holes – there, but unaware they’re there. The entire infinite physical reality, as it is now, but totally unaware of itself/that it’s ther...

Fixation To One Organism/Experience

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What level of brain damage would cause you to detach to your cosmic self or into another organism, how close to death before that happens? What if you are revived from death, i.e. cryonics, provided cryogenic preservation/revival works, do you come back from your cosmic self/the other organism to once again exist as the one who was revived? And then if duplicates of your organism nature creates exist of you in the future, would they be you? As in, quantum fluctuations out of the vacuum pop duplicates of your connectome into existence in uncountable lengths of time. Why do we always seem to be fixed in this particular organism we’re experiencing?

The World Reflection And My Consciousness

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If in every moment the world I experience reflects my state of consciousness (I almost certainly see this now, from close observation), does that mean, for example, there’s no personality called Deepak Chopra that exists independently and outside of my consciousness. If my state of consciousness is unaligned to the source, which it feels like it indirectly is. Does that mean I could be giving myself the wrong answers, or misleading myself? Since what if my mind is behind the words being uttered whenever I hear the answers, instead of beingness source. I guess everything being me, and me being everything feels kind of lonely. Being the supreme being/the ultimate reality. So I suppose that oneness has to create duality to feel loved. Just seems kind of sad, there’s just you, ultimately. It’s okay, I welcome it still. Maybe once I experience ego death/awakening/enlightenment, which is probably the same thing as physical death, provided you let it happen fully. I’ll re...

Every Thing Is The Same Thing

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Just because one doesn’t remember anything before they were born doesn’t mean there was nothing forever for them before they were born. It’s just evidence of a lack of remembering, not evidence for a lack of experience. You may have had an infinity of experiential sessions before this current experiential session. They may have taken place across infinity. Occurring in an infinite amount of times and spaces. I think ultimately the self is the whole reality – everything ever. We’re all expressions of the same one thing. It may very well be, that there’s only one subject existing, which experiences all contexts of experience. And that subject would be me and you. Uncaused, ungenerated, unsustained by anything. It just is – because it can’t not be. Why can’t it not be? Because nothing doesn’t exist. It’s self-defeated, self-nullified by something. There’s only ever been being and existence. Nothing persists in any state forever, but nothing is lost. Everything returns to ...

Some Thoughts On Existence And Nonexistence

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  Hopefully, with existence, we’ll only be dying in a dream. Which is fine because it’s just an illusory end. An illusion of being the permanent end of existence. So the fear is for nothing. It’s either a temporary end or there’s not even a gap of temporal nonexistence that you somehow undergo. You just remain conscious at the instant of death. And onwards. In that even temporal unconsciousness for you is not an option, because you can never not exist in some way, some form or state. The appearance of going unconscious ever during life is an assumption, since just because you don’t remember what was going on in your mind and reality. It doesn’t mean you weren’t there in any way. It only means you don’t recall what was going on for you, perhaps. It doesn’t mean you were nonexistent in those times you don’t remember anything, per say. No memory doesn’t imply no experience. For instance, when you’re blacked out drunk you’re clearly having experience, it’s just not reco...