Is your energy returned to the universe? Do you go to heaven? Do you just cease to exist? Personally I don't plan on ever dying so I haven't considered it too much.
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103 sats \ 1 reply \ @freetx 1 Mar
Its entirely possible that the brain does not generate consciousness, rather it receives it (akin to radio antenna).
If you notice, all your other major sensory organs are completely passive, yet we assume that the brain is the single exception that generates senses instead of receiving them.
This is not just crazy talk, as major physicist have postulated the same thing (ie. Penrose and Hameroff’s Orch-OR Orchestrated Objective Reduction)
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @Aardvark OP 1 Mar
I'd love to see where the signal is coming from!
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110 sats \ 1 reply \ @ClickForCharity 1 Mar
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @nkmg1c_ventures 1 Mar
Lol
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67 sats \ 9 replies \ @NovaRift 1 Mar
How was it before you were born? Nothing; you weren't there, so it was blank. Now, after you die, maybe it's the same. I have no idea, but I have read so many personal experiences of people who had near death experiences. The interesting thing is that everyone completely changed after experiencing it. Basically, everyone said they were in the calmest state they had ever experienced, and some weren't even happy after coming back.
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15 sats \ 8 replies \ @Aardvark OP 1 Mar
I'd like to think that you don't just disappear, but maybe that's just wishful thinking
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21 sats \ 7 replies \ @NovaRift 1 Mar
This line really made me emotional. Personally, I have no idea; in today's world, of course, we won't disappear. There are still our Stacker News accounts left, @Aardvark, with all your posts and comments and the legacy you'll leave. The house you built, the great parenting you'll give to your kids, will reflect some part of you in them—and, man, literally your DNA! But I know you also want to know about a soul type existence. Maybe there is something to it (we're still early in scientific breakthroughs and quantum physics, etc.), but if we talk about our current knowledge, then there isn't even a slight evidence of it. However, that doesn't mean there won't be any in the future.
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15 sats \ 6 replies \ @Aardvark OP 1 Mar
I'm not having kids, but I do agree, we all leave part of us behind now.
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21 sats \ 5 replies \ @NovaRift 1 Mar
Last year, I watched a movie (I forgot the name) with an unusual concept: when you die, you get reborn at the place where you made the biggest mistake in your life. Now, when this theory got leaked, everyone in the world rushed to die. I need to look it up again. Thanks for asking this question
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21 sats \ 4 replies \ @Aardvark OP 1 Mar
That sounds miserable lol. I've made some real bone head moves.
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42 sats \ 1 reply \ @cryotosensei 2 Mar
Why, get reincarnated as an Aardvark, of course
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Aardvark OP 2 Mar
Of course! 🤣
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @Roll 2 Mar
the body is lighter of 21grams
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @userbob6 2 Mar
I invite you to read this thing I wrote. My layman attempt at bridging quantum mechanics with relativity. it's here>> #885880 The end parts address your question in great detail.
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @_Bubble_2009 2 Mar
What happens when you die?
Only that you are not alive.
I hope that your son can find your seed.
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @SwapMarket 1 Mar
Atoms carry on existing, mind and consciousness get wiped. Individual's contribution to the world will remain. But if the whole universe is a single evolving process, separate "I" is an illusion. There is only the whole, observing itself through billions of avatars. Death will close one aperture, but new ones open all the time. We get born again and again into the world we left to ourselves in the past. So if our actions make the world better, we'll end up in heaven. If worse - in hell. This is karma.
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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @nkmg1c_ventures 1 Mar
The borg re-transmit a copy of your consciousness to keep you on the prison planet. Duuh
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5 sats \ 0 replies \ @Aardvark OP 2 Mar
Fuck.
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @7e6e393a56 1 Mar
I don't know... simply because I don't have unshakable faith and I'm not skeptical enough to reject any spiritual experience. I think I was evasive, but that's how I think about this moment in my life.
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @Fabs 1 Mar
The non-romantical answer: Once you die, you're broken down into atoms again and are recycled into whatever may find what's left of you.
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @8366029071 2 Mar freebie
The feeling that you are something other than the biological machine that thinks is an illusion. There is nothing to continue on after death. Your atoms will continue to dissipate into the environment (as they do today), but the machinery of your body will cease to renew its structure. The thinking machine will stop thinking. That's it.