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Opinionhaver@feddit.uk 4 days agoHow could you possibly have an experience if you’re dead? We don’t fully understand what consciousness is - the fact that it feels like something to be - but it seems like a safe bet to claim that it’s an emergent feature of what our biological body does. When the body dies, that process ends, and with it, so does experience. There’s no such thing as “positive non-existence” after death. Not being, by definition, cannot be experienced.
toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world 4 days ago
i agree with everything you said.
are we living in the moment, or are we just remembering right now?
when you die, your brain does a bunch of crazy shit. it doesn’t take more than a few psychadelics to see that. perception changes. perspective changes. you realize that you’re just part of the One Big Soul.
and then you realize it’s really dusty and you’re poor again.
Opinionhaver@feddit.uk 4 days ago
You could be a brain in a vat - what you experience in that case would effectively be a simulation running on wetware instead of silica. But that still wouldn’t change the fact that what you’re experiencing is happening right now from your subjective point of view. Even if this were just a pre-recorded memory from someone else, it still feels like the present moment to you.
Everything you perceive could be smoke and mirrors, completely fake - but the one thing that remains undeniably true is that it feels like something, not nothing. Even a psychedelic trip, as bizarre or unreal as it may seem, is still just another appearance in consciousness. And for that to happen, your biological body needs to be alive. If you’re dead, there’s nothing left that could have - or host - that experience.
toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world 4 days ago
i’m hung up on the “wetware” thing. explain or gtfo.
Opinionhaver@feddit.uk 4 days ago
I’m refering to the meat computer i.e. human brain
toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world 4 days ago
i see your opinion (it’s a small world; voting is pretty clear). do you care to argue for it, or are you happy with your downvote?