RE: Death
March 26, 2012 at 7:16 am
(This post was last modified: March 26, 2012 at 7:19 am by Norfolk And Chance.)
I understand what he is trying to convey, even though he could have worded it better. I have very vague memories of being an infant and becoming self aware etc. Not that it really affects his point.
It is not brain busting to grapple with the concept of non existent/alive/non existent - but what I struggle to cope with is why we individually experience consciousness during the /alive/ bit - and no I don't mean I can't understand that consciousness is a product of brain activity, before someone points it out...
Seven billion individuals simultaneously exist right now, all experiencing consciousness, plus however many billion conscious animals - why am I the consciousness in THIS body, right here, right now, and not any of the others right now or in any time previous? Why aren't I YOU, reading this post, or both of us, or nobody at all? It's all a bit freaky when you start to wrap your head around it but of course there is no real answer.
I often wonder why we experience life, but it is not contingent on still remembering life after I've died. When I'm gone I'm gone. I'm not sure how you think that becoming nothing prevents you from being something right now?
It is not brain busting to grapple with the concept of non existent/alive/non existent - but what I struggle to cope with is why we individually experience consciousness during the /alive/ bit - and no I don't mean I can't understand that consciousness is a product of brain activity, before someone points it out...
Seven billion individuals simultaneously exist right now, all experiencing consciousness, plus however many billion conscious animals - why am I the consciousness in THIS body, right here, right now, and not any of the others right now or in any time previous? Why aren't I YOU, reading this post, or both of us, or nobody at all? It's all a bit freaky when you start to wrap your head around it but of course there is no real answer.
(March 26, 2012 at 7:05 am)Mosrhun Wrote:(March 26, 2012 at 7:00 am)Phil Wrote:(March 26, 2012 at 6:54 am)Mosrhun Wrote: If one day everything is just gone, then why do we experience life as it is? Most people have their first memory at around age 2-3. You have no recollection of your life as an infant, so it seems to you that one day you just pop into existence because you can't remember anything prior. So if one day all of our memories cease to exist, then how is it that we are living life now? Wouldn't it work the same way as it did as an infant? Where I would not remember all these years and just cease to exist? If that's the case then we shouldn't even experience ourselves as "alive". Thoughts?Yes, I think a vinaigrette would go good on this word salad. Other than that, I think translating this into intelligible English would be a good idea.
Um, I don't really see how it's hard to understand what I was trying to convey.
In a nutshell: If everything you are is gone when you die, then how is it possible to even experience life? We would not remember it.
Better?
I often wonder why we experience life, but it is not contingent on still remembering life after I've died. When I'm gone I'm gone. I'm not sure how you think that becoming nothing prevents you from being something right now?
You are currently experiencing a lucky and very brief window of awareness, sandwiched in between two periods of timeless and utter nothingness. So why not make the most of it, and stop wasting your life away trying to convince other people that there is something else? The reality is obvious.
