Well, I've always found it impossible to imagine what its like to die (assuming theres no classical heaven or hell) What would it feel like for your consciousness to end? What would it feel like to not exist anymore. I personally hope when we die our awareness becomes absorbed into the universe and we experience an omnipotent existence. like an endless trip. then we learn how to control it and we become a god of our own universe.
My own universe and I'm the god huh. I've never imagined that before that explains y the universe is endless me god omg my mind has just been blown
i think when we die we just die and the particles that made us become part of other things and we wont exist anymore other than as information
Well what happens is you go to a place that's very intense because it's based off emotions. The good stuff is pretty intense and the bad is BAD. But mostly its good especially when you stick to the right areas (just like any town in real life). There are also grassy areas, forests, cities and so on. You would exist but I suppose the way to put it is you won't die necessarily but you would lose your mind. I'm pretty sure that's the only way anyone really dies for a very, very long time. And yes you can to some degree control it but really in a way similar to the way you can now. Can you be happy at will now? Can you be sad at will? If you can or cannot control your mind here why would your mind be any different once it leaves your body? This can be true but not necessarily. It depends on a lot of factors. I would imagine people are very much different after every life. They don't turn into a nothingness if that's what you mean.
I like this theory a lot. But I see it this way. What if our consciousness DOESN'T end? Energy can be neither created nor destroyed, correct? The human brain is full of electricity (energy) that allows our minds and bodies to operate. What if that electric impulse present in everyone's brain is actually their consciousness, or "soul"? What if that electricity just passes into another dimension when we die, and carries on from there, either in a new form or simply as energy, maybe even in a dimension where every existence is represented by a color or a sound? Perhaps represented by something so cosmic that the very concept is intangible to our limited human capacities? Existentialism is the shit! For the record, I believe that whatever people believe happens to them when they die is what actually happens. Every human on this earth alters their own existence with what they see and what they believe, where all of (their) reality spins on their little finger. In that sense, every one of us lives in a different dimension, even though every reality intersects. We all live in our own little worlds, in this one little world. So those people who believe they'll be floating on heavenly clouds with little harps end up doing so, and those non-theists with so little imagination they can only see empty black at the end, wind up as nothing and their energy is drawn into something new. Basically, everyone's right because everyone's wrong, and vice-versa. There is no true right or wrong because human consciousness cannot intersect outside of their limiting physical interactions, and every mind conceives and believes based on it's own stimuli and experiences. By sheer power of mind, every existence is cordoned off on it's own path to wherever the mind is capable of taking it. It's just that all those paths intersect in one reality, and so each person has to imprint their impressions of existence on that reality because it is in their nature to do so. This, ladies and gentlemen, is why we have war. Ideals are the blades we clash in a battle between egos.
You've already done it once though. Where was your conciousness before you were concieved? Your conciousness will end along with your physical process. pwer down, lights off, shows over. You can't imagine it because its nothing, literal nothing.
I think technically it is a hypothesis? Right, energy cannot be destroyed or created. When we die the heat, electricity, and all matter from the body goes into the Earth. Eventually(billions of years) the sun will have depleted the hydrogen fuel in its core and start becoming a red giant. This red giant will engulf the Earth, destroying it. As the sun dies it will expel a planetary nebula. That matter that once made us is now in this nebula. This nebula will become part of subsequent stars which may have planets orbiting around them. One of these planets could be suitable for life, very unlikely. The life would go through the evolutionary process and matter could once again attain consciousness.(Science might be off a bit) Similar to what mbfm said. You could say that we are the afterlife of a star that evolved to be conscious. However, I don't think we are conscious after we die or before birth.(When do we become conscious?)
Theory, hypothesis, concept, it all amounts to things that most people can't conceive. I like your idea, the afterlife of a star that achieved sentience. Very fun to think about.