Note: I will of course be making the (well-supported by neuroscience) assumption that consciousness is an emergent relation of the brain.
Originally Posted by
Erth
We dont seize to exist. As our physical matter and body is still there. Our thoughts and functions simply stop. The fact is that when we die it just means our body stops functioning in every sense of the word. no brain activity, therefor no motor control or thoughts. We will simply be lumps of matter until the universe says we decompose, at which point we decompose and become part of what we started as.
So what constitutes this "we" in your opinion?
A collection of atoms that once worked together to produce a conscious entity (you) is quite different from a collection of atoms that no longer work together to produce a conscious entity.
Attributes like consciousness, perception, and perspective are central to the concept of "man". When I die and
my dance of atoms ceases, what lays on the ground is merely one temporary part of Odlov, but not Odlov (or even human in the
full sense of the word). Odlov is gone.
Originally Posted by
Cloneone1
Fuck, think outside the box, we all know half the shit I said is bullshit, but don't be so fast to turn it away. Just think about it.
Don't be mad bro.
Are you asking us to simply imagine some afterlife, or genuinely consider the possibility of one? I think most of the posters here have been doing the latter.
Originally Posted by
Cloneone1
You know the law of conservation of matter? How matter isn't created, and isn't destroyed. It's always there, but can take different forms. Think of you that way, you have to go somewhere. But do your experiences? Your thoughts? In science you hear "law of conservation..." a lot. Things don't dissapear, but do these laws apply to non-physical things? Such as thoughts?
Well, there you have it. We
are a form. An occurrence, a phenomena.
The matter we are made of may not be destroyed, but the very specific form that constitutes us can easily be. By a bus, for example. Is the bloody mess on the road YOUR new form? Or is it the MATTER's new temporary arrangement? ;)
Last edited by Odlov; Jan 6, 2011 at 12:37 AM.