(February 20, 2021 at 2:31 pm)John 6IX Breezy Wrote:(February 20, 2021 at 2:13 pm)brewer Wrote: Can you/the religious give a definition of afterlife and provide evidence of existence, ........evidence that most of us will accept?
My denomination doesn't believe in an afterlife—at least not in any stereotypical sense. They believe resurrections are possible, in a physical souless sense. Resurrections seems to be an issue of difficulty not of possibility; I don't know of any falsifying evidence to the contrary.
I can't speak on behalf of other religions. But I do know the psychologist Donald Hoffman and the philosopher Thomas Nagel do offer alternatives to reality in which consciousness (or something like it) comes first and the physical universe second. Hoffman has an interview with Sam and Anaka Harris in which they discuss the implications of death within such a framework. The speculation was very "afterlife-like" minus the continuation of the self.
Alternatives to reality perception is not afterlife.
Conscious first requires life.
Being told you're delusional does not necessarily mean you're mental.
