[tekomino]

This is the tough one. If I apply the Occam's razor to the OR/SR that "All things being equal, the simplest solution tends to be the right one," or "we should not assert that for which we do not have some proof." it is clear, to me at least, that there is no SR.

Why? Well, what is more likely? That this current reality OR that I am experiencing is the only thing that there is, or some dream world SR that makes my current reality just a dream and it contains it?

By same token what is simpler, that there is an afterlife with heaven and hell or that there is nothing at all and that this is all there is?

I think that the last question of existence after death is actually driving lot of this stuff. Subjective Reality, Religion are just some of the ways to address our collective inability to cope with our own demise.

How would you live and what would you do if you knew for certain that this is all there is? Have you tried to imagine your own non-existence and felt the cold, dark touch of death? It is terrifying but that is what it is.

I think that most of us have problems accepting our death, including myself, and latch on anything that is reasonable and acceptable to us, so it can help us deal with it, by actually providing the possibility for afterlife.

However, with all this being said, there are interesting personal experiences that put color on what I wrote and which keeps my mind somewhat open.

First, when my father died, he visited me in the dream to say goodbye. After I woke up I had doubts about dream and have brushed it off, but later that day I received call that he indeed have died, very likely at about the time that I had the dream since he was in timezone couple of hours ahead. Now I knew that he was in bad shape and that he probably did not have much time left, but still it was strange experience.

Second instance happened during war and over period of 2 years. On number of occasions the very bad feeling that I got just before my life was threatened and that something bad is about to happened, saved my life on many occasions, too many to consider that just a pure coincidence...