Author Topic: What do you think happens after we die?  (Read 3715 times)

there is no way for any of us to know for sure
i hope there is an afterlife of some sort

My guess is that after all the remaining activity in our brain ceases, time just passes to us instantaneously since we're not conscious and can't actively sense the passage of time. If the universe just expands into entropy and nothing else happens, then all the time after death is just an unconscious, dreamless sleep.

But if the universe does crunch and reform and re-create itself over and over again like some physicists hypothesize, then it's only a matter of time before events happen that once again lead to the formation of that underlying, chemical organization within your brain that defines who 'you' are and never changes from your early infancy to your death. Then you're just 'back', I guess, hopefully living a life that isn't outright identical to the one you just finished.

Don't take any of this seriously though. I'm an 18-year-old living in the 21st century with a hopelessly small understanding of how the birth/death of the universe happens in its entirety, or how countless biologically-similar cells clustered together into a 3lb lump can create consciousness. My guess is based on the worst quality of evidence imaginable.


My guess is that after all the remaining activity in our brain ceases, time just passes to us instantaneously since we're not conscious and can't actively sense the passage of time. If the universe just expands into entropy and nothing else happens, then all the time after death is just an unconscious, dreamless sleep.

But if the universe does crunch and reform and re-create itself over and over again like some physicists hypothesize, then it's only a matter of time before events happen that once again lead to the formation of that underlying, chemical organization within your brain that defines who 'you' are and never changes from your early infancy to your death. Then you're just 'back', I guess, hopefully living a life that isn't outright identical to the one you just finished.

Don't take any of this seriously though. I'm an 18-year-old living in the 21st century with a hopelessly small understanding of how the birth/death of the universe happens in its entirety, or how countless biologically-similar cells clustered together into a 3lb lump can create consciousness. My guess is based on the worst quality of evidence imaginable.
this is exactly what I think.
thanks for putting it into real words.

you're the best


we see that light at the end of a tunnel
we get closer
then once we get close enough to see out the exit, we see were in a hospital
then we realize that we just got born again

There was a study about a doctor who weighed patients about to die and weighed them minutes after death and found that the body weighed a little less than they were alive. Now i don't believe this but if the study was right it kind of confirms the existence that we (our actuality and self understanding of us) leaves the body or vessel. Meaning we might be a soul or something idk.

I personally think that our realization or consciousness has to go somewhere, because even when your minds turns off and you dream you're still aware of things that go on. But comparing sleep to death is like comparing a car with gas turned off as apposed a car with its engine completely removed.   

y dont u
because it's ridiculous. it's just another of many absurd expectations for the future

There was a study about a doctor who weighed patients about to die and weighed them minutes after death and found that the body weighed a little less than they were alive.
That study didn't give any accurate results. Plus, if the soul is some kind of ethereal material, why is it made of particles with mass?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_MacDougall_%28doctor%29#Reception

I personally think that our realization or consciousness has to go somewhere

I disagree. Conservation of organization is not a fundamental law of the universe. Things can lose their organization without needing it to be 'transferred' somewhere else. In fact, things have to lose their organization over time, it's literally the second law of thermodynamics.

do u rly believe this

no, i'd have severe panic attacks daily if i seriously thought such a massively detrimental revolution was going to happen so soon

it's an interesting thought though


I disagree. Conservation of organization is not a fundamental law of the universe. Things can lose their organization without needing it to be 'transferred' somewhere else. In fact, things have to lose their organization over time, it's literally the second law of thermodynamics.
I don't understand this "organization" concept



its really weird that this is the only thing, ever
like there's nothing else besides our existence, and when it ends, there is just nothing if that makes any sense

its really weird that this is the only thing, ever
like there's nothing else besides our existence, and when it ends, there is just nothing if that makes any sense
it's scary, isn't it?