(September 5, 2012 at 6:03 pm)Ace Otana Wrote: Oh I know all that old boy. The atoms we're made of after all comes from stars that have exploded billions of years ago. When I say 'cease to exist' I meant mentally. Physically we cannot be destroyed. Only transformed.
Same with the mind.
Modern physics is fundamentally based on indestructability of information. This means the mind may stop functioning, but full information about every thoughts, feelings, whims, desires, perceptions that has ever been part of you mind also can never be destroyed, and can in principle always be retrieved and used to resurrect you.