Discussion What happens after we die?

[meltskelt]

I want to die, we all do, but deep down I'm kind of worried about the after death part. I would appreciente if anyone could tell their opinion about what might happen after we ctb

 

[sserafim]

Nobody knows because dead men tell no tales. I believe in reincarnation and the soul trap though. Google "prison planet theory" if you're interested

 

[wanttodie12345]

I think there might be an afterlife of collective consciousness that does not experience time. I think our souls come here so we can experience the flow of time and how things change.

 

[CantDoIt]

*Void (like before you were born)
*Afterlife
*Reincarnation

These are the main theories I guess.

 

[damienlerone03]

personally my opinion I believe in the scientific explanations. I believe that once you die, you just lose consciousness forever it just doesn't exist anymore. Scientifically consciousness is tied to the functioning of the brain, so when brain activity ceases, consciousness is lost. So what i think is that consciousness does not persist after death, as it is a product of neuronal activity or in other words, once the brain stops functioning, consciousness ceases to exist, and the person experiences nothingness.

 

[pthnrdnojvsc]

After the brain dies the brain can no longer generate thinking ,consciousness , feelings nothing ever again. Only the brain generates all thinking consciousness feelings emotions reasoning etc. how a human thinks , memories who they think they are is only etched in the neural networks of their brain.

After Death a human ceases to exist forever . After Death is non-existence forever. I'm glad I won't exist after Death. Non-existence forever is the best thing imaginable to me. I've had much more than enough of life / consciousness / existence

I think the brain creates an simulation like a first person video game . a model of the world and as if there were a viewer looking through the eyes. that's an illusion imo. There is only a 3 pound brain inside a skull in darkness generating this video game. the brain learns about the world through senses like the eyes. the eyes just transmitt electrical pulses which the brain makes sense of to create a model of the world and the illusion there is someone there behind the eyes to view it. but this software stops once the brain is destroyed 1 micro second after Death. The brain has no vision . light sensitive cells in the eyes transmitt that info to the brain.

Consciousness is also an illusion.

What if your consciousness is an illusion created by your brain? | Aeon Essays

Phenomenal consciousness is a fiction written by our brains to help us track the impact that the world makes on us

aeon.co

"Neuroscientists are beginning to understand the brain processes underlying all this. To put it simply, light reflected from the apple stimulates light-sensitive cells in the retina, sending trains of electrochemical impulses along the optic nerve to the lateral geniculate nucleus and then on to the visual cortex at the back of the brain. Here these signals trigger activity in hierarchically organised groups of cells specialised for the detection of increasingly complex features (edges, colours, motion, faces and so on). When you attend to what you are seeing, this visual information is 'globally broadcast' to mental systems involved in memory, reasoning, emotion and decision making, generating the host of effects mentioned. This process of global broadcast is called access consciousness, since it makes sensory information accessible to the rest of the mind, and thus to 'you' – the person constituted by these embodied mental systems. Again, I don't deny the reality of consciousness in this sense."

I agree with what he says in this video : Video title:

The Self Illusion - Why There's No 'You' Inside Your Head - Prof Bruce Hood

GPT-3 had 175 billion parameters in total; GPT-4 reportedly has 1 trillion. By comparison, a human brain has something like 100 billion neurons in total, connected via as many as 1,000 trillion synaptic connections. Vast though current LLMs are, they are still some way from the scale of the human brain

ChatGPT is not "true AI." A computer scientist explains why

Large language models are an impressive advance in AI, but we are far away from achieving "true AI" — that is, human-level capabilities.

bigthink.com

 

[drag201]

I want to die, we all do, but deep down I'm kind of worried about the after death part. I would appreciente if anyone could tell their opinion about what might happen after we ctb

I think no matter what your beliefs about it are, that it's peaceful and that youll be set free from all you had to endure in this world. Of course nobody knows for sure what happens but I believe it'll be kinder than here.

 

[outrider567]

I want to die, we all do, but deep down I'm kind of worried about the after death part. I would appreciente if anyone could tell their opinion about what might happen after we ctb

Nothing will happen, we will just cease to exist

 

[divinemistress36]

Nobody knows because dead men tell no tales. I believe in reincarnation and the soul trap though. Google "prison planet theory" if you're interested

We better have an easier time next time around if we reincarnate

 

[Gangrel]

personally i don't know what to believe, but i think everyone's wrong, i hate the smugness of "WELL SCIENCE SAYS-" well those are a bunch of theories like clearly we know very little about the universe so i just don't really know what to believe, i wanna believe there's something at least

 

[meltskelt]

I think no matter what your beliefs about it are, that it's peaceful and that youll be set free from all you had to endure in this world. Of course nobody knows for sure what happens but I believe it'll be kinder than here.

It is kind of scary to not know how death feels fr, so I really hope to be like going to sleep

personally i don't know what to believe, but i think everyone's wrong, i hate the smugness of "WELL SCIENCE SAYS-" well those are a bunch of theories like clearly we know very little about the universe so i just don't really know what to believe, i wanna believe there's something at least

true, just saying we're a meat loaf walking around won't make anything less confusing. I think it would be good to not have to think and worry ever again, but at the same time it still makes me kind of scared lol

 

[TheUncommon]

In general, you start to decompose, your nutrients and constituents return to the soil, and you erode away to nothingness

 

[sos]

i normally have a huge imagination and i could overthink a lot of things but thank god that i don't care about what happens after i die

the same thing could be asked about living. what happens if we all live and die naturally instead of attempting to ctb / actually succeed at ctb?

not trying to downtalk any fears or whatever but yea

we could have a fat conversation about the afterlife but there are so many possibilities

i mean i could even come back in the world as a cloud and roam around in the air

fun stuff cant wait

believe in what you wanna believe

you might even end up not ctb and live a happy life bc of it

who knows

 

[No More Tears]

I believe once you're gone, that's it. Off to the black abyss to become a speck of dust.

 

[Gangrel]

It is kind of scary to not know how death feels fr, so I really hope to be like going to sleep

true, just saying we're a meat loaf walking around won't make anything less confusing. I think it would be good to not have to think and worry ever again, but at the same time it still makes me kind of scared lol

it's kinda of impossible to never ever think about it since it's the fate of everything and everyone

 

[Sunshine]

There have been experiments with psychic mediums that would suggest that our mind survives the death of our bodies. But otherwise not sure what will happen and why... all kinds of theories from bliss, love to prison planet matrix.

 

[Darkover]

well if you look at analytically we are just biological machines made up of around 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms , just like a computer is made up of atoms when it's breakdown it no longer functions, the human mind is a complex machine that operates on the same physical laws as all other objects in the universe, when you die it's either permanent non existence forever, or rebirth in any machine any where

 

[ijustwishtodie]

We obviously don't know for sure but I believe that after death is just permanent non existence. I'm the type to trust in science and, so far, the current scientific theories all converge to conclude that after death is just permanent non existence. I may be wrong but I'm just believing in the theory with the most substantiation instead of believing in things which have no evidence for such as reincarnation, religious after life etc

 

[etherealspring]

idk but i really, really hope it's just nothingness. i dont wanna deal with an afterlife the whole point of ctb is that i wanna die and not have to live again

 

[Morte]

you're asking this to beings who never died
truth, no one knows, no one will ever answer that question.

 

[voodoo689]

obviously there is nothing after death and for you to believe that you need to believe in magic, because think about it, everything that exists only exists because it depends on our consciousness and our consciousness depends on our body so once we die everything ceases to exist

 

[FuneralCry]

I just believe we simply cease existing and that is it, death is the absence of everything which is of course all I wish for. It comforts me to think of being unable to experience anything for all eternity, the only relief for me would lie in being eternally unconscious free from the meaningless and torturous burden of existing as a human. I only wish for non-existence, I'd always prefer to not exist, I'd never want to exist at all under any circumstance especially as existence has caused me nothing but pain.

 

[hxtel]

My honest opinion is that we die. Everything stops our personal world ends like it never happened for us. Like a deep sleep with no dreams or thoughts. No memories no sensations no connections. It sounds scary af to people who like life and value their lives due to the love and comfort they have in it but for us whos existence is literally hell it's quite comforting. No one to judge you or reject you. No more waiting for things to get better only for it to get worse. No more missing people who don't want you or have passed on. Just void of everything the way it always should have been. If u think about it life is the anomaly we have never found life outside of our world and probably never will. And human beings are even weirder as we are so self aware and can have complex thoughts and think about our existence. I just feel like it was all a horrible tragedy and death is our release from it.

 

[Unspoken7612]

OK. Let us suppose there is an afterlife.

Who goes? Humans, obviously. But how far back? Did Neanderthals go to the afterlife? What about chimpanzees? Gorillas? Other mammals? Tortoises? Frogs? Goldfish? Insects? Sponges? Trees? Bacteria? What about the very first proto-cells that were just amino acids floating around inside a lipid bubble?

Considering life is just chemicals, I don't see how an afterlife can have evolved, therefore it does not exist.

 

[meltskelt]

My honest opinion is that we die. Everything stops our personal world ends like it never happened for us. Like a deep sleep with no dreams or thoughts. No memories no sensations no connections. It sounds scary af to people who like life and value their lives due to the love and comfort they have in it but for us whos existence is literally hell it's quite comforting. No one to judge you or reject you. No more waiting for things to get better only for it to get worse. No more missing people who don't want you or have passed on. Just void of everything the way it always should have been. If u think about it life is the anomaly we have never found life outside of our world and probably never will. And human beings are even weirder as we are so self aware and can have complex thoughts and think about our existence. I just feel like it was all a horrible tragedy and death is our release from it.

almoust all replies were saying they believe there's only the void after death, and yes, I was ( maybe I still am) kind of scared of it because it's unknown... But thinking now it can actually be more conforting than having to work long hours just to have some money and to keep overthinking all the time. Also, we kind of fall into the void when we sleep, so it isn't that unnatural at all

 

[cali22♡]

This question is the only one that keeps me alive

 

[meltskelt]

This question is the only one that keeps me alive

true and it feels terrible

 

[Terios]

I think it will be the same thing as before our birth, nothing. However, I really hope that if there's an afterlife that none of my memories carry over.

 

[grimreality]

I can't but persist on this idea that what happens once in a cosmic scale can happen again. Maybe rebirth but not reincarnation, a change of first person perspective....yet that would necessitate something to transmigrate.

Maybe the universe is in a loop? Maybe we repeat the very same lives, or a different variation of them? I cont know, I can just hope.

However logic dictates that once the brain ceases to function, it's lights out forever

 

[divinemistress36]

I think it will be the same thing as before our birth, nothing. However, I really hope that if there's an afterlife that none of my memories carry over.

People who have had ndes including my friend say you go through a life review when you die so will go through all your memories