RE: Death
March 26, 2012 at 7:30 am
(This post was last modified: March 26, 2012 at 7:30 am by Norfolk And Chance.)
(March 26, 2012 at 7:24 am)Mosrhun Wrote: It would seem to me that we have to have a recollection of something to experience it. I mean, if you ate a sandwich and didn't remember it then it's as if you never ate it, in your mind at least.
Sort of. You experience in real time then store some of it in memory. I'm no brain scientist but I'd guess the reason we have zero to a very few memories before the age of about 2 is because your brain is still developing and cannot store information too effectively.
Once you die, you of course have no brain, no memories, and yes at that point it would be as if you never existed from your perspective, except of course you won't have a perspective. So even the "don't even know you are dead or had ever even lived" point becomes moot. So what we are left with, as always, is the here and now - so try and make the most of it.
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.
