(April 16, 2014 at 3:36 pm)Coffee Jesus Wrote: Realize that your brain doesn't just make more mind, it also differentiates the mind into different types of experience—different senses, different colors, different ideas, etc.. Death could just be a return to an undifferentiated state.
I won't advocate pan-proto-experientialism, the idea that everything has protoexperiential qualities, because I think it leads to the conclusion that all things are actually part of one giant mind, which we intuitively know is false. However, I'm open to the idea that proto-experiential qualities are present at a very basic level of organization.
Or, lets not fill in gaps like they do. The science is in on what happens to our bodies after we die, including our brains. There is absolutely no afterlife to us at all, we decay, and our atoms move on to other things. Just like the atoms that were in us when we were conceived are not in us now.
We are a living ongoing fractal, but once that structure gets destroyed it does function as if it were not destroyed.
Right now science only says that evolution can manifest into cognition. Our cognition is merely our brains in motion. What causes that does not change that once broken up, it will not work anymore.
You are more than welcome to correct me if you think I am wrong. But this is coming across to me as merely a si fi attempt at justifying reincarnation.
If we find out what causes cognition, certainly not impossible, we still would not be reverting back to a state only to become a future cognition somewhere else. If a lion were to eat an antelope's brains, it would merely make the atoms and molecules energy for the lion, it would not transfer cognition from the antelope to the lion.
