Submitted 2 weeks ago by OriginEnergySux@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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But you’re not annihilated in a material sense. You’re rendered agentless - incapable of expression or engagement - as the machinery of your form fails you.
You’re not gone, anymore than a spoon full of sugar dissolved in a glass of water. You are decomposed. Overwhelmed at last by all the other organisms trying to devour you. Then reincorporated into the next generation of stuff.
I am more then just my atoms.
Water: 35 liters, carbon: 20 kilograms, ammonia: 4 liters, lime: 1.5 kilograms, phosphorus: 800 grams, salt: 250 grams, saltpeter: 100 grams, sulfur: 80 grams, fluorine: 7.5 grams, iron: 5 grams, silicon: 3 grams, and trace amounts of fifteen other elements… That’s the total chemical makeup of the average adult body. For that matter, the elements found in a human being is all junk that you can buy in any market with a child’s allowance. Humans are pretty cheaply made."
I missed SO much and I’m bummed about it. Aren’t you? I wish I could see the San Francisco Bay before a single European settler set foot on it. I would have loved to have been at Woodstock. And I want to see everything else that happens in the next 1000 years and beyond. We get a snapshot. It’s amazing but not nearly enough.
The process of getting from one to the other is pretty awful.
How do you know the beginning/end location is a void of nothingness?
Because non-conciousness with no brain activity is pretty simply “nothing”. Nothing is going on in you, so what you must be experiencing is nothing.
That makes sense in materialist metaphysics, but in recent decades materialism has become increasingly contested in philosophical circles. Philosophers like Bernardo Kastrup, Phillip Goff and David Chalmers being among the most prominent of its critics.
I’m not afraid, in fact, I desire it. But there’s a couple people who’d be pretty upset if I left, and I don’t want to hurt them, so I’m stuck here.
same. also i’d lose the ability to learn more and more. which is a love of mine.
also: hugs.
Drun@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Being “part of the whole“ is such a beautiful concept. Mind, process of thought, is a prison in a sense.
After death, you’ll become a small part of a universe - a timeless, infinite creature. I don’t believe there’s God as a separate person - but I believe that universe itself is a God. Everchanging, everlasting chaos where everything and nothing makes sense.