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These are some of my favorite questions. Is death an abyss of nothingness, like going to a dreamless sleep and never waking up? Maybe! Do we die and live in an
by warent 5y ago
These are some of my favorite questions.
Is death an abyss of nothingness, like going to a dreamless sleep and never waking up? Maybe! Do we die and live in an afterlife? Perhaps! But what an amusingly and ironically simple, easy answer either would be!
Look at anything in life and the universe. In this reality, is there anything so simple and clear cut? Yet somehow this process of consciousness we call "death" is reduced to such a profoundly simple and binary thing.
Consciousness and death, two fundamentally undefined things, frequently given a conclusion so simple it can be explained to a child. Not that we can be blamed for doing this.
Given the complexity of everything else in this apparent infinity, it seems far more likely that whatever happens is complex beyond our Comprehension. Something far greater than nothingness or an afterlife.
- vaidhy 5y agoI would also add that the fact they are undefined itself is interesting. Are they undefined because we do not know about them or we do not want to define them? I think we do not want to define them as they would make humans not so special and we do not want to feel "not-special".
- codq 5y agoSomething I think about sometimes is that death is the only thing that we all share, the only thing every organic entity has ever done and will do; indeed, not all of us are even born, not all of us even make it out of the womb, but all of us, every one, dies. It seems to me that the death state is actually the natural state—life is the outlier, the extreme, unnatural state. Death is home.
- robotresearcher 5y agoWhere does the rainbow go when the rain stops?
- polishdude20 5y agoI've been thinking what it feels like to die is the whole process of your brain shutting down. My hypothesis is that as your brain cells start to die, some die before others. I wonder if the process of dieing is experienced in hallucinations as the self experiences more and more cell death. Then at some point, the cells that do the experiencing and that give you a sense of self vs other slowly die and you lose your ability to distinguish yourself from the rest of your experience. This, I imagine, is what it feels to be "one with the universe".