What do you guys think happens after death?
From a science standpoint we can say that the closest thing to the soul would have to be the consciousness, which is the inner workings of our different perceptions on the world, like visual, auditory, taste, smell, all of those. And when we combine them, with the intuition and specific composition of a person's body, we get the consciousness. But once you die, your consciousness dies as well, after brain death of course.
But what happens after the consciousness disappears? That's where my question is going.
Does it come back? Does it really disappear?
And more philosophically speaking, do you believe in eternal oblivion?
(eternal oblivion is the theory that death is like sleeping, except there are no dreams, and you don't wake up.)
A good quote to sum this up:
"I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it." -Mark Twain
From a science standpoint we can say that the closest thing to the soul would have to be the consciousness, which is the inner workings of our different perceptions on the world, like visual, auditory, taste, smell, all of those. And when we combine them, with the intuition and specific composition of a person's body, we get the consciousness. But once you die, your consciousness dies as well, after brain death of course.
But what happens after the consciousness disappears? That's where my question is going.
Does it come back? Does it really disappear?
And more philosophically speaking, do you believe in eternal oblivion?
(eternal oblivion is the theory that death is like sleeping, except there are no dreams, and you don't wake up.)
A good quote to sum this up:
"I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it." -Mark Twain
