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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...

Stuck In The Worst Situation Imaginable For All Eternity

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  How can we be sure that after death the worst situation imaginable doesn’t happen to the self, infinite pain lasting for infinity to the self. Do you know to free me from this fear/guilt? I also have this constant ringing/buzzing/static/roaring high-pitched materially vibrating sound. It sounds like a singularity of infinitely expansive density. A synthetic sounding immensity, fullness I think. What is this? I always am afraid it’s an infinitude of pain awaiting for me to become it after death.

Will I Literally Live As Every Life Ever Lived Across Infinity?

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This is a question that’s been burning in me for a long time. The question is, if there’s an infinity of physical systems across endless space and time that are conscious. You know, our universe/the multiverse. Does that mean I’ll live as every physical system/organism/psyche that ever existed, is existing and will exist? Meaning, everyone on Earth, I’ll live their life out as them. And everyone across every planet ever I’ll live as, one at a time. I’m just curious, if everything is one, which I think is agreed upon in spirituality/mysticism widely, does that imply there’s only one infinite being which experiences every experience to be had ever. Or.. is everything one, yet somehow I’ll only experience this singular life I’m living right now, for instance, and at death I’ll just join back with the source of myself and abide in my authentic state/nature eternally as the ultimate reality. Or another option.. is it somewhere in the middle. Meaning, we each live as infi...

Solipsism And Co-Creators

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  How are you convinced that there’s any co-creators outside of/besides you? What if you’re the only being creating? What makes you so sure there’s any souls outside your soul? This goes for the world/cosmos too, you don’t know if there’s an external outside reality independent of your soul/consciousness. So, how can I take comfort in knowing for certainty that I’m not 100% alone, at the most cosmic scale/level.

The Universe Is… Because We Are? Or We Are… Because The Universe Is?

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  How can we for sure know which way it is? I always seem to drift back and forth between viewing things as all one non-local consciousness and then to viewing everything scientifically. Here’s a quote related to this topic, from the scientific point of view:   “If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating out conceits?” – Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science As A Candle In The Dark (1995).   Here’s some related questions to think on, if desired (sorry if there seems to be a bias towards physicalism in some of these questions): What determines who ends up existing within the universe/multiverse/reality and who doesn’t? Why am I part of reality opposed to not ever being a part of reality? Why is there something (consciousness existing anywhere) rather than nothing? Why is there something (“physical reality”) rather than nothing? What specifies...

Some Questions I'm Asking Scientists And A Few Thoughts

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Just thought I’d share some questions I’m asking scientists: Is consciousness made out of particles and waves? Or is the brain made out of particles and waves and consciousness is a property/emergent phenomenon/epiphenomenon/byproduct/illusion of particles and waves? If consciousness isn’t made of particles and waves then wouldn’t it be nonphysical. If consciousness is made out of particles/waves/fields then consciousness is one with the quantum level and all quantum characteristics apply to consciousness. Such as quantum entanglement, retrocausality, etc. — If the mind is identical with the brain, then that means the mind is made of atoms, elementary particles, waves, fields, etc. All the way down to the quantum level the mind is present since, after all, neuroscientists proclaim the mind IS the brain. This opens the doorway I think, to everything being one to the ultimate degree. Since consciousness displays the properties of quantum physics, namely, non-local...

Consciousness Is The One Thing That Cannot Be A Construct

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I am woo, woo is me. We’re all in each other’s minds. We’re all one self experiencing itself in infinite ways. We have no end to ourself. There’s always more to explore. My realization I just had is that death is a construct. The idea of total nonbeing for all time is a construct. Once again – death is a construct. Endless Beginningless Deathless & Complete Tethered at all moments to the source Unbreakable Love-filled infinitude Brimming with replenished abundance Never losing connectivity with the first experience The delicate beauty inherent Homebound With love for everyone and everything All are true friend I find Remembrance of the highest calling Simply to be with what is As we awaken all beings in all spaces and times with bliss-filled love eternity I just have question as to what the ringing and pressure in my head is. I just have such fear that death is either eternal hell or eternal nothingness. I’ve had a rough life. I drank DXM and apparently we...

Permutations Of Personal Identity

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Possibility 1: Solipsism – you’re only as yourself, in this one form (and you’re eternal). Possibility 2: Open individualism – You’re one self throughout infinite forms (you = eternal). Possibility 3: Science/eternal oblivion – each self is finite, and there’s probably an infinity of them. Possibility 4: Each being is eternal but doesn’t experience each other as themself – there’s an infinity of different selves. So which is it? And how can we truly know? ...The most fundamental mysteries. I think we’re really onto something. All of us, which reject the certitude scientists hold in an external objective physical reality independent and outside of consciousness. I think we’re turning the tide. And a new non-nihilistic science including the observer is emerging. It’s wonderful.

Fear Of One's Own Self

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What if the one thing you fear is yourself? I can’t stand behind alone with my head. It’s eerie/spooky, thinking it could hate me actually. You know not just my head precisely, but me. You know.

Hallucinogens: Psychedelics/Dissociatives/Deliriants/Cannabinoids/Entactogens

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  I think hallucinogens can be instrumental in apprehending that there’s more to us, than just being a finite consciousness in a finite body. Some wisdom from Salvia Divinorum, a dissociative hallucinogen:       Salvia Divinorum artwork: http://img04.deviantart.net/a2dc/i/2013/342/6/5/slavia_by_salviadroid-d6x9tr2.png

A Paper That Changes My Anticipation Of Death And What It'll Be, If Anything

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http://www.naturalism.org/philosophy/death/death-nothingness-and-subjectivity Have you ever read that? He’s a naturalist that presents a non-dualistic case for existing after death. It’s quite intriguing and compelling I think. If you take the time to grasp it fully. He uses a thought experiment to show that being not there after death is unlikely. That if nothingness was after death, then your death would have to be consistent with the whole universe and reality ending as well.

Stuff To Press Scientists On

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  How do we know the state of being nothing at all after death is an infinite duration, not a finite duration? I get that consciousness is lost at death. Consciousness is the result of particles/matter being in specific arrangements and after death those specific arrangements are scrambled. Neuroscientifically, as the brain dies, cell by cell, the mind dies with it. The amount of damage corresponding to the amount of mind lost. No immaterial soul, nothing surviving, total annihilation. But how do we know that the state of undergoing nothingness/nonexistence/oblivion/nonbeing after death is infinite in duration – what demands one would never start existing again randomly out of nothing? In the same way the universe has been stated as plausibly coming out of nothing. What is prohibitory to a self/connectome coming into existence again if we can’t be aware of all the possible ways infinity will express itself? For instance, perhaps this Boltzmann’s Brain type recurrence could...

Everything Is One Non-Local Source/Self Manifesting An Infinity Of Localized Selves

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Why is there such a prevailing assumption in rationalists that death is the eternal extinction of being? Some atheists will use the example that most of us don't remember anything before we're born. But.. the lack of memory of before-birth isn't equivalent to nonexistence for eternity before life began. It's just evidence that you don't remember simply. Think about it. We don't know that consciousness is ever not present for itself, in some manner. Yeah, we don't seem to be there in deep-sleep, coma, syncope (fainting), vegetative states or before our inception. But for the experiencer/subject/agent it may always be existent, throughout all of these supposed gaps in experiencing. Because really, we regard the nothingness of unconsciousness as quite plausible, it seems to feel right, doesn't it. But, according to physics, namely quantum field theory, nothingness doesn't exist. Here's a quote distilling how nothingness isn't...