(September 30, 2018 at 2:25 pm)purplepurpose Wrote: Are there atheists here who believe that there is some sort of afterlife? I personally still believe that there is something in afterlife, even if I dislike the idea.
Why? How would life after you die be any different than it was before you were born?
I warn eve atheists not to fall for the si fi version of a fictional "forever".
There are multiple steps to get from a mere wave function, to a living organism. Saying that we are made up of atoms does not mean a single atom all by itself can act as a fully functioning live in tact brain. Your consciousness is an emergent property, and a finite property, not a starting point, not a forever.
A car tire by itself cannot act as the entire car. Blow up that engine it will not function as the in tact version. You are merely your brain in motion, no motion, no fuel, you die, you no longer exist.
It is ok to have a sense of awe to know that atoms make up everything, and we are made up from the death of a prior star. But our consciousness is not an eternal thing.
