RE: A physical argument for an afterlife
March 14, 2015 at 6:04 pm
(This post was last modified: March 14, 2015 at 6:36 pm by Smaug.)
The question of afterlife is a very interesting one but obviously equally fruitless. We may be constructing hypotheses all we want but according the the scientific method, there has to be an experiment to prove them. In some cases this technically equals returning from the dead. Today the experiments either disprove the afterlife hypotheses or the hypotheses are so that there's no possible experiment to test them yet (as in with the existance of the Creator or other universes or anything like that).
My own non-scientific view is that there may be some kind of symmetry involving the presense of the observers in our Universe. In other words it's some kind of conservation law-based "re-incarnation" without any kind of soul involved (at least not as we mean it). It's something like you die and without any comprehensible transitional process appear (get "born" in a one way or another) completely blank, without any knowledge or memories from the past (preserving identity in one way or another may sound appealing but this goes even further beyond science). I'd like to point out here that I don't treat this view in a way religious people do. This means I don't actually take reality as if it was a correct hypothesis. Strictly speaking, I leave the answer as 'undefined' because I don't want to end up with a self-delusion, which is useless and not really very interesting.
P.S. I've noticed that many people aren't able to accept 'undefined' as an answer on a fundamental scale. They are more likely to unconsciously or even knowingly accept a self-delusion rather than to leave the question as is. This seems to be due to a subliminal fear of unknown. This is valid not only for eternal questions but also for those that have been already answered but the individual doesn't care enaugh to find the answer (i.e. fear of unknown * laziness = ignorance).
My own non-scientific view is that there may be some kind of symmetry involving the presense of the observers in our Universe. In other words it's some kind of conservation law-based "re-incarnation" without any kind of soul involved (at least not as we mean it). It's something like you die and without any comprehensible transitional process appear (get "born" in a one way or another) completely blank, without any knowledge or memories from the past (preserving identity in one way or another may sound appealing but this goes even further beyond science). I'd like to point out here that I don't treat this view in a way religious people do. This means I don't actually take reality as if it was a correct hypothesis. Strictly speaking, I leave the answer as 'undefined' because I don't want to end up with a self-delusion, which is useless and not really very interesting.
P.S. I've noticed that many people aren't able to accept 'undefined' as an answer on a fundamental scale. They are more likely to unconsciously or even knowingly accept a self-delusion rather than to leave the question as is. This seems to be due to a subliminal fear of unknown. This is valid not only for eternal questions but also for those that have been already answered but the individual doesn't care enaugh to find the answer (i.e. fear of unknown * laziness = ignorance).
