The Case Against Afterlife
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...