(June 20, 2023 at 2:31 am)Belacqua Wrote:(June 20, 2023 at 1:47 am)FlatAssembler Wrote: What is an afterlife like if souls have no chronoperception? Certainly not the way most people imagine it, or so that the Near Death Experiences are glimpses of it.
Dante, following Thomas Aquinas and the general ideas of Neoplatonic philosophers, says that there is no time or space in heaven. It is not in the material world.
The experience of heaven, according to those guys, is like a single instant of extreme bliss. But there would be no chronoperception because time would not be passing.
I think hardly anybody today believes that afterlife is real, but that Near Death Experiences are not glimpses of it. Sure, that's entirely possible (and arguably probable if we assume afterlife is real), but we should be trying to refute the form of religion most people believe (or at least claim to believe) in.
