Discussion Weird idea I have about what happens after death. Tell me if I am a conspiracy theorist or not.

[Namelesa]

I have thought through what that could happen after death. I was first a Catholic and now becoming more and more atheist and not believing in a God and believing more that after death is permanent non-existence but I have thought of this weird idea of what could happen and is not spiritual or religious and uses a atheist standpoint. I have no idea if others have thought of this idea before or whether this has name so if its been said before tell me. Education and info dump on me if I am at all stupid or you have critiques and counterarguments in what I have to say.

So the consciousnesses is caused by the brain and that's made of atoms which were created from food such as plants or animals.

Does that mean part of our consciousness is made from food and previous life forms?

Are parts of a cow's consciousness part of a meat eater's consciousnesses?

Does that mean my consciousness will be spit up into different life forms' consciousnesses after I die?

As atoms and energy can't be destroyed but only transferred, does that mean consciousnesses can't be destroyed as well?

Or is consciousnesses just different kind of energy and any energy can be used to potential make new consciousnesses?

DOES EVERYTHING HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO MADE INTO A CONSCIOUSNESS?!

ARE DIFFERENT PARTS OF MY MIND GOING TO EXPERIENCE DIFFERENT LIVES IN THE FUTURE?!

IS MY MIND MADE OF DIFFERENT PARTS OF PREVIOUS LIFE FORMS?!

Or am I crazy and stupid? I probably am.

 

[EvisceratedJester]

Consciouness isn't a type of energy, rather it just refers to varying degrees of awareness. Consciousness specifically stems from certain neurobiological processes and once you die that is it. Your consciousness isn't going to be split up and spread out, it will just be gone because the things that caused it in the first place aren't functioning anymore. Atoms themselves aren't conscious.

 

[Apathy79]

I have reasonable confidence in what will happen immediately thanks to a NDE but what happens after that is anyone's guess.

My experience in the car accident was what I feel as "me", let's call it consciousness as it kind of fits because the body itself was unconscious, left the body and hovered above it. I could see my body, the car, the bridge it had fallen off, the other car that hit us, the traffic that was starting to back up, the other people in the scene, kinda like I was in a drone above it all. The most striking aspect of this was I didn't care about my body, or even the other humans, any more than anything else in the scene. It was all just part of the furniture so to speak - there was no identification with the body as me or special or important at all. When I was ultimately pulled back into it, it was a disappointment.

Anyway that's what I expect happens to everyone when they die immediately. I've read up on NDEs since and they're all remarkably consistent on that. What happens after that is anyone's guess, although it seems to me the least likely answer is nothing. I suspect your instinct is correct that consciousness cannot be destroyed.

 

[Adûnâi]

A senate is a collection of chairs. If you steal a chair, does it make you a senator?

 

[Namelesa]

A senate is a collection of chairs. If you steal a chair, does it make you a senator?

What does senate or senator mean? sorry me dumb dumb.

 

[Adûnâi]

What does senate or senator mean? sorry me dumb dumb.

A parliament. Technically, a parliament is not exactly the chairs, or even the people, it's an idea. But let's take something different then, a school classroom. If you take a desk from it, and put it in your home, do you happen to be on school turf? Or a part of school? Not really, school only comes into existence when everything is combined. Just like a cannibal isn't hugging you with his mouth when he's eating your brain lmao (wtf)

 

[Namelesa]

A parliament. Technically, a parliament is not exactly the chairs, or even the people, it's an idea. But let's take something different then, a school classroom. If you take a desk from it, and put it in your home, do you happen to be on school turf? Or a part of school? Not really, school only comes into existence when everything is combined. Just like a cannibal isn't hugging you with his mouth when he's eating your brain lmao (wtf)

I don't necessary think that stealing the desk here and putting it in your house would make it part of the school but that part at least came from the school. So when I say about things that make up someone's consciousness, those parts are originally from something else but are now no longer part of that original consciousness.

 

[sadalways]

YOU ARE CRAZY!! no but seriously that's an interesting thought. I tend to think about what happens a lot after and my thoughts go from: nothingness to reincarnation to waking up from a simulation. So basically the most realistic thing to the most unrealistic thing. I could think about it for hours, lmao.