I'm not even afraid of the process of dying itself, I'm just scared about what happens next.
I was always a "scientific" person, so I hardly believe in things that can't be proved with logic or scientific methods.
But even using logic you might find some possibility of keep existing after dying.
This is my current theory that I really hope it's wrong, but logically speaking, it's not impossible to happen:
I was thinking about that for a good time, what are we? What are our consciousness, thoughts and memories? If not just particles interacting with each other inside the universe in a given pattern. And that's the key word: pattern. What if this same pattern that leads to what we call "life" happens again? What if the same pattern of particles that lead to our own consciousness, memories, feelings and thoughts happens again in the future? Maybe even from billions of billions of years from here, there's literally nothing preventing this from happening again, of course the odds are astronomically low, but not zero. Everybody knows that if you throw a dice the same number will repeat eventually, chances are 1 out of 6. Why the same isn't valid for the events on the universe? Even if it means 1 out of billions of billions of billions..., given the universe will exist maybe forever (?), there's nothing preventing past events of not happen again in the very same way.
There's one theory that talks about that, the eternal return theory (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_return), even tho I'm fine with that, because even if things keep repeating for the eternity, I'd not know about the past, even if I'm living again for the 100th time, so it's just how nature is.
But what scares me the most is, what if in the future, humanity, or maybe not even humanity, maybe just some sort of supreme absolute intelligent life is able to map the past and bring back patterns that happened once to the present? Some sort of "resurrection", and recreate that in a controlled environment? Which means, you could be brought to life dozens of times without knowing it.
Then it gets worse, we have this feeling that death will be just like an eternal sleep. I don't entirely agree with that, once dead you don't have perception of time anymore, while sleeping, we still know after waking up that a few hours has passed, our perception of time exists even on sleep. But in death, nothing exists for you anymore, there's no perception of time. And this is a big problem, because if what I said earlier is true, you'd be brought back to life after billions of years with a feeling that just a split of a second has passed, a feeling of continuous existence, after all, your brain doesn't exist anymore, it doesn't track time anymore, but once you get back your brain is back from where it stopped: your past death. So this feels even more terrifying than being alive.
What if there is never an ending? Scientifically speaking, it's not impossible. This has even been shown in some fictional scientific stories, what if human consciousness can be brought back to life? What if a person whole neural network can be mapped and transferred to a computer? What if we're not in control of our own very existence?
Death doesn't seems like an exit anymore. I'm not considering current technology or maybe not even human technology, but if the universe is not more than a bunch of particles interacting with each other leading to certain events, then what is preventing those particles of being manipulated in the future for some sort of technology we don't even can think about? What if some sort of intelligence are able to "reverse engineering" the universe and manipulating everything bringing any existence back to life?
I was always a "scientific" person, so I hardly believe in things that can't be proved with logic or scientific methods.
But even using logic you might find some possibility of keep existing after dying.
This is my current theory that I really hope it's wrong, but logically speaking, it's not impossible to happen:
I was thinking about that for a good time, what are we? What are our consciousness, thoughts and memories? If not just particles interacting with each other inside the universe in a given pattern. And that's the key word: pattern. What if this same pattern that leads to what we call "life" happens again? What if the same pattern of particles that lead to our own consciousness, memories, feelings and thoughts happens again in the future? Maybe even from billions of billions of years from here, there's literally nothing preventing this from happening again, of course the odds are astronomically low, but not zero. Everybody knows that if you throw a dice the same number will repeat eventually, chances are 1 out of 6. Why the same isn't valid for the events on the universe? Even if it means 1 out of billions of billions of billions..., given the universe will exist maybe forever (?), there's nothing preventing past events of not happen again in the very same way.
There's one theory that talks about that, the eternal return theory (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_return), even tho I'm fine with that, because even if things keep repeating for the eternity, I'd not know about the past, even if I'm living again for the 100th time, so it's just how nature is.
But what scares me the most is, what if in the future, humanity, or maybe not even humanity, maybe just some sort of supreme absolute intelligent life is able to map the past and bring back patterns that happened once to the present? Some sort of "resurrection", and recreate that in a controlled environment? Which means, you could be brought to life dozens of times without knowing it.
Then it gets worse, we have this feeling that death will be just like an eternal sleep. I don't entirely agree with that, once dead you don't have perception of time anymore, while sleeping, we still know after waking up that a few hours has passed, our perception of time exists even on sleep. But in death, nothing exists for you anymore, there's no perception of time. And this is a big problem, because if what I said earlier is true, you'd be brought back to life after billions of years with a feeling that just a split of a second has passed, a feeling of continuous existence, after all, your brain doesn't exist anymore, it doesn't track time anymore, but once you get back your brain is back from where it stopped: your past death. So this feels even more terrifying than being alive.
What if there is never an ending? Scientifically speaking, it's not impossible. This has even been shown in some fictional scientific stories, what if human consciousness can be brought back to life? What if a person whole neural network can be mapped and transferred to a computer? What if we're not in control of our own very existence?
Death doesn't seems like an exit anymore. I'm not considering current technology or maybe not even human technology, but if the universe is not more than a bunch of particles interacting with each other leading to certain events, then what is preventing those particles of being manipulated in the future for some sort of technology we don't even can think about? What if some sort of intelligence are able to "reverse engineering" the universe and manipulating everything bringing any existence back to life?
