Religion aside; Logically, what happens after death? This is what I am coming up with and would love to here others opinions. After death the brain will cease to function within seconds. No electrical impulses will transmit. Thus, we will not be able to think and our consciousness will no longer exist. It will literally be like we do no exist and never had existed. We won't feel, think, or even know we are dead because that's impossible. This may seem bad, but in reality, you will and never could possibly know. Basically, it is the same as before when you were born. Do you remember a thing? Exactly. I just want to know if there is another logical theory that could be possible besides this one?
I agree with you man. We are all animal's so I would think we would die the same. When you're dead you're dead and that's it.
After the brain stops functioning I'd have to say that given current research in neuroscience there is no "you" after death - just like before "your" brain was formed in the embryonic stage. The experience of conscious "me" is yet another functional product of the brain. I know it's a hard pill to swallow given our knowledge of our imminent demise, but if anyone thinks that is all hypothetical hogwash, I dare you to watch the following documentary in its entirety. In it you'll find out that, among other insights into consciousness and identity, researchers are now able to predict from real time experimental fMRI monitoring of human subjects, which of two buttons they will "randomly" decide to press as much as 6 seconds before they actually pressed the button and felt they had made the choice - and they do it repeatedly! That has some astounding implications when we fully grasp the nature of what is taking place in the experiments. That particular experiment is toward the end of the program but the documentary is full of mind blowing (ego destroying) experiments. This is cutting edge stuff with huge implications - ones we may not necessarily be very comfortable exploring. [media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HfuVrQhykE[/media]
Yup. Black and nothingness. Which isn't really that scary. Not like you'll be sitting there thinking "why am I in a pitch black room and nothing ever seems to happen" Our personal conscious just ceases to exist. That's why ya gotta just enjoy the one ya got man cause you only get one ride on this train. Sent from my iPhone using Grasscity Finmmmn
Your body gets eaten by your bacteria until just bones are left. As for the experience, I'd imagine its like when you sleep and don't have dreams.
Impossible to tell until you experience it. Hopefully I will be able to transfer my consciousness over to an android body before my actual body dies.
If there is an afterlife, The most reasonable thing to me is reincarnation. Eventually everything dies and becomes part of the earth and then grows into something else. I might never be human again but I'll be apart of something. Honestly, I would rather die and be nothing than come back to this bitch reincarnated
2pac reference. nice. i think this is the future for our species. our physical bodies can't travel faster than light, but we can send our minds
Just finished a book by a neurosurgeon who had bacterial meningitis and went into a coma for7 days. The infection caused the higher parts of his brain to shut down so he should not have been able to experience consciousness but he claims he was shown another world and met the creator. The mortality rate for that bacterial meningitis is around 90% but somehow he made a full recovery. I'm still skeptical but it really made me think Sent from my iPhone using Grasscity Forum mobile app
All I know is that long ago, a friend and I were talking about the silly things our kids said when they were very little. I told how my eldest insisted that steam-rollers were "roller steamers" and would get all excited when he saw one. Then she, innocently, blew my mind! She told how her boy had insisted that fire was called "Agg- knee" and even as an infant loved watching the fire in the fireplace. So what blew my mind? THIS! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agni And then I got to explain who Agni is to my sweet (but not very well educated on foreign religions) friend! Our simple conversation on kids, suddenly got VERY complicated! Now it could all be a coincidence, but to me, it looks like India may have lost one EXTREMELY devoted priest of Agni just before her son's birth! Granny
Nobody will know until we die. Here's a story that will make you think though, my mother has a friend who had a child, about 5 years old. Long story short, the child got in a car accident and was severely injured. Her heart beat was no longer there and they said she probably won't make it. She survived the car accident but came back with all this knowledge of her grandparents and aunts and uncles. They died before she was born and had never heard about them nor has she seen them.. It makes you think how she knew all this. She said she spoke with them, I thought it was cool.
even with extreme advances in science well never know. because of the chemical cycle the science would seem to suggest that once your body rots away youre probably nothingness. not even blackness. nothing. assuming there is nothing "you" outside your body.
When you're dead, you're dead. And I don't think it's nothingness after death because you would need consciousness to render that nothingness. I like to think there is no consciousness. I don't wanna come out of the rabbit hole.
i think after death, you experience the dmt release and go through ego death. from there i believe you are out of body and simply part of the universe's frequency pattern until your spiritual energy finds a new vessel i firmly believe that theres more to 'me' than my brain.