What do you think we are beyond our physical forms?
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September 5th, 2009
I’ll try and make sense…
We have bodies, or so it appears that we do to use in this state/ dimension or whatever, but after we die, whatever dying maybe, what do you think happens?
Obviously there could just be nothing at all and we are completely in every way non existent, but do you think we have souls, and if so in what sort of form do you think they exist?
There seems to be a definite separation between our ‘brain’ that is unconcious or whatever to us, and our minds that we know as ourselves and our personalities, and I was kinda thinking that this seems to be more than just a load of neurones and things with electrical impulses: so if there is this other part of us that seems to have a different quality of life to it than just ‘existing’, does it die with our physical form? Or does it just use our bodies as a vehicle or something through the stage that is time on Earth? If that was true, then what happens after that?
Maybe what I mean is there is what we know about our existance from science, but there’s so much we obviously don’t know, and how far can it go beyond what we know?
I saw this documentary about near death experiences, and that was making me think, because people who had been blind there whole lives reported everything they’d seen accurately.
And this woman having a tumor from the bottom of her brain (=\) had to have her heart rate taken down to something insane like 6 bpm, and have lots of her blood drained gave an exact account of the operation despite not knowing about it. The point with that is, that she was not clinically dead or something, so people were saying maybe we have quantum particles within other atoms within others etc etc, and it is this making our ‘minds’, also that would explain why she could be both in and out of her mind, so after death, could be just live on as hallucinations of decaying atoms in our minds?
Ok i don’t make sense and I’m going on about a load of crap I guess, sorry man =D
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@Tink1113 we’re all like that too now, especially idiots like me man =)
I think that the world is made of mental phenomena such as thoughts, emotions, memories, etc.
If I’m wrong, someone please educate me.
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@Blondesjon well buddy, if I outlive you because a cow kicks your head off or something, YOU’LL be a fond memory to me.
Welcome to fluther, @fathippo. Believe it or not this sort of question gets asked around here quite a lot, and has been asked quite recently. You may find at least some of what you are looking for here and links to earlier discussions. Good luck.
don’t take this as a cynical remark but as one of the many things we are, We are host to many bacterial life forms – many we can not live well without. It’s odd but there was a very interesting segment for NPR’s ‘This American Life’ years ago. This episode interviewed a man who researched and wrote a book (?) on the subject… besides talking about some of the symbiotic human relationships and how these bacteria can make us feel and do things ( yes he actually said this ) he also talked about how bacteria lives in other animals. He went on to tell how this one type of bacteria lives in the ground but ultimately wants to live in a sheep’s gut. So this bacteria first invades ants. Once inside the ant it causes the ant to want to climb to the tip of grass blades in the late afternoon when they should / would normally be all heading home. But instead the affected ants just climb the blades of grass and stay there. If sheep are present ( according to him they graze more in the afternoon ) they eat the grass and voila! the bacteria are now happily inside the sheep’s stomach. And no it was not an Aprils fool episode.
If a man is the words on the page, then the soul is the poetry written by those words. Without words, there can be no poem.
there is no way to know what happens after death
You mean you just won’t tell me. Meanie.
@pdworkin I’ll tell you, but first you have to send $50,000.00 to my PO Box in Drumheller, ON Canada
You only exist in the moment… wait it’s gone.
the check is in the mail.
We have a soul that stays in existence as long as someone living remembers you. Reincarnation can only take place when no one alive recalls you.
Hope this clarified everything for you.
Sleep in peace now.
We do not exist beyond our physical forms. Consciousness, personality, thought and being are all contained within neural networks, and once these cease the person ceases to be.
Maybe a conscious mind capable to be uploaded surviving inside a robot.
Nothing will exist of me after my body is gone but whatever mark I make on this world. Nothing else.
If you thought that documentary on NDEs was interesting, check out the book Life After Life (by Raymond Moody I think his name was). I don’t regret reading it, and maybe you won’t either. It’s a well known book, so I’m sure your library has a copy (and even better, it’s a fast read).
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