(July 1, 2016 at 2:17 pm)RozKek Wrote: Well I want them to have a good life whether I'm there or not. Of course it cannot sadden me when I'm dead, but while I'm alive, I very much value the well being of my loved ones, so I still want them to move on after my death even if I won't know about it at that point. It's not all about me.
So up until a point in time, I care about everything after that point in time, until the point in time arrives, and I no longer care about anything after that point in time.
Ruminating on it, perhaps it's not really the future that we care about. It's the idea of the future that we have in our mind, which exists at the moment. And we just don't differentiate it with the actual future?
This is something that also seeps into my brain a lot. That our interactions with things we view as external are primarily internal. I don't love my grandma. I love the idea of my grandma stored in my brain. Now there is overlap, as much of that idea is based of data gathered from my senses interacting with my actual grandma. But there is a go between that we don't really acknowledge that separates the reality in our minds from actual reality. That's why we can still love grandma when she's dead. Because we never really loved grandma, we loved the 'Grandma" data structure stored in our brains.
Which makes sense. Grandma dying doesn't stop us from loving grandma. But our brains dying stop us from loving grandma. Or, better yet, a hard blow to the head that damages the Grandma data in our head could make us stop loving grandma.
