Is this serious evidence about the existence of afterlife?
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mark_j
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I don't understand Quantum Theory enough to make a determination as to whether it proves or disproves life after death. The best I can come up with is the idea that it deals with things on an atomic/sub atomic level. Even if it, did I don't think we, at the conscious/sub conscious level, would be able to comprehend what that state would be unless our conscious self existed intact postmortem.
That being said, thermodynamics goes a long way toward offering some sort of pathway.
Kinetic - Movement
Electrical - Brain and nervous functions
Heat - Self explanatory
Conscious - Our perception that we exist (there can be a whole theory about how this is perceived). Suffice it is to say that this is a product of how our brains work in relation to it's electrical impulses.
If the First Law Of Thermodynamics holds true in this case, postmortem all of the energy that makes us changes to another form. What that form is, whether a single form or many forms, I cannot say. Whether we would be able to perceive it postmortem is an entirely different matter.
That being said, thermodynamics goes a long way toward offering some sort of pathway.
- First law of thermodynamics: Energy can neither be created nor be destroyed, it can only be transferred from one form to another.
Kinetic - Movement
Electrical - Brain and nervous functions
Heat - Self explanatory
Conscious - Our perception that we exist (there can be a whole theory about how this is perceived). Suffice it is to say that this is a product of how our brains work in relation to it's electrical impulses.
If the First Law Of Thermodynamics holds true in this case, postmortem all of the energy that makes us changes to another form. What that form is, whether a single form or many forms, I cannot say. Whether we would be able to perceive it postmortem is an entirely different matter.
If you want to believe it, then yes.
Stewart_Pidd
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Memories aren't energy. If you can't move on without memories, then moving on eternally as energy doesn't matter bro.
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No, it’s not serious evidence of life after death. It’s pseudo-scientific woo that misapplies quantum mechanics to the macroscopic realm.
Consciousness is an emergent property of a living physical brain. No more brain, no more consciousness.
If you swirl a bucket of water, you can create a whirlpool. Dump the bucket out and the whirlpool is gone. It doesn’t survive somewhere in a mystical quantum realm.
Consciousness is an emergent property of a living physical brain. No more brain, no more consciousness.
If you swirl a bucket of water, you can create a whirlpool. Dump the bucket out and the whirlpool is gone. It doesn’t survive somewhere in a mystical quantum realm.
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John, you are obsessed with this issue to the point where you can't live your present life well. Well, I perhaps have it backwards. You have problems in this life (so do I), and you are looking for the afterlife to solve it all. You're not the only one. It has been a major selling point for various religions for centuries.
When I believed in God, my purpose in this life was to discover myself so I could live the real life (the afterlife) next knowing who I am and what I want. Now that I know there is no afterlife, I have lost my purpose, so I don't know what to do with this life either.
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So, qunatum information is released into the universe at the moment of death, is it? How? Any quantum information, which is a slippery term in itself, stored in the dna will remain stored there until the cell decays. Cells decay at different rates. Let's assume that this "quantum information" is "released into the universe". It will be released in quanta, tiny little packets of energy. What your OP is positing is that each of those tiny quanta somehow remain coherent one with another, which, given everything we know about the randomness and uncertainty of quantum mechanics, is utter bollocks.
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Pascal's wager.
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Quite honestly, if you couldn't find a purpose in this life, it seems unlikely that you would then find it in the next one. Did you expect God or someone to say, "I'm glad you made it here. We have your purpose right here in our celestial database." Yes, I'm being a bit tongue-in-cheek, but only a little. From the various beliefs I've heard about the afterlife, you don't need a purpose there. Just being there is sufficient.
You might as well write something for Literotica. That's about the most purpose I can find at this point, and I know that I'm quite a bit older than you.
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