RE: How "reincarnation" might work?
March 29, 2016 at 5:57 pm
(This post was last modified: March 29, 2016 at 5:59 pm by AFTT47.)
I've thought about this kind of thing and have a different take on it.
Given the age and scope of the universe, based on what we know, there is a virtual certainty that there is intelligent life out there that has advanced to god-like heights, limited only by the laws of physics. Such beings, if they were so inclined, could travel around the universe in search of intelligent life and serve as guardians of what religious people would call souls. They could record the brain structure of every living being at the moment of death, thus preserving the being. They could provide an afterlife for everybody - probably in whatever form one might want. Maybe doing something like this might be considered the highest goal of super-advanced beings - not "paving over" a whole galaxy with space equivalents of strip malls.
This is highly speculative of course and there isn't the tiniest bit of evidence to support that such a thing occurs but it demonstrates that an afterlife is possible without the supernatural - whatever the hell that is. It all comes down to the value of a unique consciousness. Are we as individuals such a precious thing that super-powerful beings would take the trouble to preserve us? I'm precious to me but would a super-powerful being care? I personally have no idea. I'm imaginative but I'm no philosopher.
Given the age and scope of the universe, based on what we know, there is a virtual certainty that there is intelligent life out there that has advanced to god-like heights, limited only by the laws of physics. Such beings, if they were so inclined, could travel around the universe in search of intelligent life and serve as guardians of what religious people would call souls. They could record the brain structure of every living being at the moment of death, thus preserving the being. They could provide an afterlife for everybody - probably in whatever form one might want. Maybe doing something like this might be considered the highest goal of super-advanced beings - not "paving over" a whole galaxy with space equivalents of strip malls.
This is highly speculative of course and there isn't the tiniest bit of evidence to support that such a thing occurs but it demonstrates that an afterlife is possible without the supernatural - whatever the hell that is. It all comes down to the value of a unique consciousness. Are we as individuals such a precious thing that super-powerful beings would take the trouble to preserve us? I'm precious to me but would a super-powerful being care? I personally have no idea. I'm imaginative but I'm no philosopher.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
