If there is an afterlife...

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There is an afterlife.

And it is called 'death'.

First of all I have to object to the term 'afterlife'. Because if, after the death of your body you find yourself aware, with your consciousness, memory and personality still intact you are clearly still alive, at least in some form or another.

Yes. In essence: you never died.

But now technology has grown so quickly and with research being carried out in the realm of quantum computing it is not too difficult to imagine a future where entire 'virtual' worlds can be created that, to the person immersed in them, are indistinguishable to the 'real' thing.

At what point does a simulation become a reality? I should think that a simulation is simply another facet in the chaotic funhouse of reality.

What if this universe in which we live, including its 13.7 billion years of cause and effect is just that, but on a scale and level of complexity that we cannot imagine? And further imagine that all of us, i.e. people who currently live in this universe are just in some way 'plugged in' just as our future selves may plug ourselves into some virtual world running on a quantum computer.

Along the same line of thinking, perhaps we are simply 'simulations' to a bunch of game designers that need to freshen up on their understanding of 'reality', and are as dead as the rocks of the game when our time comes.

Now, I'm not in anyway saying that this is something I actually believe to be true but I have always found the speculation fascinating.

The question is then, if it were somehow proved that you did indeed survive the death of your body what theories could you come up with to explain it?

I wouldn't be guessing theories if it were the proven to me that I could/would survive platform destruction... but I would give a cursory look at any of the different ideas I come across incase any of them fit the data as i understand it.

It's a thought experiment thing....

Surviving platform destruction in that way would change many things for me... I would have to take another look at everything I know from the ground up, possibly ripping apart my previous understandings of reality.