[QUOTE=Mato Kinze;452964]But it did get me to thinking about the possibility that our concept of consciousness, that sense of "being", the whole "cognito ergo sum" aspect of what we describe as "life" would continue in some form -recognizable or not - after our bodies cease to pump blood, suck air and generate electrical impluses.
But our bodies don't continue in any recognisable form; they just break down and their atoms end up in other things -- why should it be that our sense of being a conscious individual, that science tends to say is created by the brain, though we don't yet know exactly how -- would go on existing as a distinct entity if the body does not? Why should it not be that the energy that creates consciousness just disperses into nature too?
One poster said but there must be life after death because otherwise life would have no meaning -- but who is to say that it has to have meaning? Objectively, we live on one small planet in one of billions of galaxies, and there is no evidence the universe has some special plan for us, however important we are to ourselves and each other. maybe we just have to give our lives whatever meaning we want to give them and try to focus on the here and now?
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