What happens when you die?

It boggles my brain in saying it but there's a thought that the Universe has always existed .. always .. like .. no beginning .. it's just always been there .. either as different incarnations or as part of a wider multiverse .. we're so used to things having a beginning so the thought that maybe .. nah .. always been there .. is just something we .. certainly I .. can't get my head around.
Always been there........ can't see that....... but also have no idea where or how it all began.
Was it 'a God'?
 
One argument in favour of an after life, heaven etc that I feel is strong is the following. The earth is just far enough from the sun to avoid complete scorching and everyone dying in a fireball. Why is it so accurate and reassuring to preserve humanity? Our brains are so incredibly unique and beyond understanding fully still. We feel love, we feel emotions, we feel empathy, these I feel are strong points for something more than just skin and bone. The beauty our eyes behold in the scenery, flowers, countryside. The season's being so precise and mostly predictable, the water sustaining life through the rain. I know science would rule out heaven but considering the world's top scientists are still learning every day, are we not being arrogant to be so certain that there isn't more to our existence?
 
Always been there........ can't see that....... but also have no idea where or how it all began.
Was it 'a God'?
You not seeing an ever present universe is because of how you percieve time. In a universe that expands at several times the speed of light it may be that for the universe a very short time has passed as you and I would measure it. It is an artificial construct developed by humans to mark entropy.
 
One argument in favour of an after life, heaven etc that I feel is strong is the following. The earth is just far enough from the sun to avoid complete scorching and everyone dying in a fireball. Why is it so accurate and reassuring to preserve humanity? Our brains are so incredibly unique and beyond understanding fully still. We feel love, we feel emotions, we feel empathy, these I feel are strong points for something more than just skin and bone. The beauty our eyes behold in the scenery, flowers, countryside. The season's being so precise and mostly predictable, the water sustaining life through the rain. I know science would rule out heaven but considering the world's top scientists are still learning every day, are we not being arrogant to be so certain that there isn't more to our existence?
Whilst that's lovely mountain climber science explains every one of your points.
 
You not seeing an ever present universe is because of how you percieve time. In a universe that expands at several times the speed of light it may be that for the universe a very short time has passed as you and I would measure it. It is an artificial construct developed by humans to mark entropy.
Time related ot not..... still had to start somewhere
 
We have no concept of existence prior to being born ( discounting the few who have memories of previous life but always seem to have lived an amazing life rather than a dull life of servitude), yet humans like to dream / hope / imagine that after you die your energy transfers to another plain. Religions perpetrate this to help control the masses. If we can accept we felt nothing, knew nothing and had no existence 100 years ago why would we 100 years into the future.
 
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Randy curent biological thinking is that consciousness arises spontaneously in a sufficiently complex system. This means that as computers get more complex creating a conscious ai is only a matter of time.

Also when you think, you know it is happening in your head, you feel it there, like flexing a muscle, how?
b***r if I know mate. Well above my intelligence level.

Deja vu is a funny thing too.
 
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Some years ago we were on the Poole to Cherbourg ferry having had a fractious journey thus far and the prospect of more with our 17 month old (born April 1990). He was splashing about in a puddle and an aeroplane passed over. Mrs Gnome said "Shall we just go on an aeroplane for our next holiday, Gnomelet?" The answer was a bit surprising from a 17 month old. "Don't wanna go in airplane, been in airplane, crash bang fire".

So, we wondered where that came from and forgot about it.

In June 1992 we were travelling from Stone in Staffordshire to St Andrews up the M6 and the A/M74. It was lunchtime and we were passing through Dumfries and Galloway. Mrs Gnome's atomic belly clock went off for lunch and she said "Take the next turning off and let's get something to eat. Gnomelet (see above) was in his baby seat in the back and a little voice piped up "Don't wanna go here, airplane crash in houses here." Next turnoff was Lockerbie. Hair on our necks stood up in unison. Neither of us had discussed Lockerbie with our 2 year old. That would have been silly. Anyway, he couldn't read and neither of us had mentioned the name.

I offer that observation as 100% true and with no further comment. No, I don't get it either. But it happened. And he can't remember a thing about it now.
 
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I have no idea how true this is, but a colleague told me of a study which suggested that there is quite a lot of brain activity at the moment of death.

I love the idea of living a greatest hits of your life, in a dreamlike state without a true grasp of time, in what is merely a split second to those of us still living.

I recently read a great book called The Midnight Library which was about being able to explore the parallel universe versions of your life in the moments before you expire.
 
I have no idea how true this is, but a colleague told me of a study which suggested that there is quite a lot of brain activity at the moment of death.

I love the idea of living a greatest hits of your life, in a dreamlike state without a true grasp of time, in what is merely a split second to those of us still living.

I recently read a great book called The Midnight Library which was about being able to explore the parallel universe versions of your life in the moments before you expire.
That sounds like an interesting read.
 
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