Re:Neuroscientists have recorded the activity of a dying hum...
by root_axis on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @03:41PM
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Far more horrifying to me is the thought that this millisecond of a dream is actually a process occurring in great abundance throughout the universe, with oscillating arrangements of particles facilitating whatever property of matter it is that embodies the phenomena of subjective experience. If it happened to "me" once, I don't see any reason why it should not happen again, or be happening everywhere at once in parallel, yet simply lacking awareness of this fact because the individual nodes don't share memory.
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Re:Neuroscientists have recorded the activity of a dying hum...
by digilypse on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @04:34PM
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This is how I think of it. The experience of being “me” is the same for all life. An emergent process, but still real.
I think some Buddhist concepts, like reincarnation and duality, can be interpreted as perspectives on this.
It does increase my sense of compassion for life in general, and I try to lean into that.
Re:Neuroscientists have recorded the activity of a dying hum...
by cdelsolar on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @04:12PM
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Exactly - I think this is the actual answer. At some point "I" am going to be a Holocaust victim, or a drug cartel's victim, etc etc. It's horrifying. I think when I die, "I" am just going to be somebody else. Nothing else really makes sense to me.