(March 26, 2012 at 3:30 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Do you have any relatives with Alzheimer's? Are they alive, do they exist? Case closed.
To be fair I think he's talking about first person experienced consciousness rather than life itself.
Trees are alive but more than likely don't know 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.