Different religions believe in different forms of afterlife. Some not at all.
My theory of afterlife is as follows:
No person is wrong in their belief of afterlife because afterlife is subjective
Afterlife is subjective because as one dies in their bodies, their brains can still operate even after other bodily functions have shut down; be it a short while. Since the human mind could still produce unconscious mental images after the death of the body, the mind would not know when it was terminated. Since the human is not consciously active their mind can not realize the end of it’s existence. The mind can not effectively terminate itself.
3)This leads me to believe that whatever mental images existed in the subject’s mind could possibly be permanently existent because the mind could not realize the end of itself.
People who have been fortunate enough to “die” and be revived have recalled seeing their deities in their “deaths”. If there is only one single afterlife and one single God or god, how can multiple people see their own gods instead of the REAL God. I am not affirming the existence of either, simply stating as a point of reference.
(optionally) 5) Energy can not be created or destroyed. The energy which powers and evokes thoughts in our brains is that of electrical energy. While energy can not be created or destroyed is it possible this electric energy could maintain it’s bonds and structure even after death? I don’t have the knowledge to argue this point so I leave it to the more knowledgeable to debate.
interesting, “the mind cannot realize the end of itself”, that goes without saying, it’s self evident. I don’t see why a mind has to realize it’s dead, for it to die. Do people really encounter different deities when they die, that’s news to me.
I know of people personally who have expressed that belief in their own deity was affirmed by a death experience. Most of them say “God spoke to me” or they saw some vision or embodiment of God. One Hindu friend claimed he had seen and spoke to the family of Shiva. Another claimed he had been given a chance to be reborn when God gave him the choice between dying and being given a longer time at the cost of letting another human die in his place.
You make no counter argument as to how a dying mind would know that it was dying. It can not realize unconsciously its transition into death. Subconsciously a human mind could still exist which is scary.
Imagine people treating you like you are dead when there is still activity in your mind. You could possibly feel things such as your autopsy. While I believe the mind would be “dead” and have lost its ties to nerves by then. It’s still strange to think about.
Well, that kind of makes the whole, life after to death thing seem, more subjective, more full of shit, doesn’t it? ?
Well, my grandma knew she was dying, she had enough brain cells to know she didn’t have many left. Of course, her mind cells couldn’t be aware of their, complete and utter non existence, you can know you’re dying, but you can’t know you’re dead.
Yes, on some level your mind could still be alive and aware, I suppose, maybe even fully intact. Yes, yes that would be weird.
The brain can exist for a short moment past the death of the body. It is stated that after some were beheaded in France their eyes would blink and their mouths would look as though they were screaming. Not to say this wasn’t pre mortem reaction stuck after the beheaded but either way it’s all theory.
If our sense of time is operated by the brain and our unconscious, and if once we die we still have a few hours of consciousness, then it may seem that once the time sensing operatus stops working, this would be eternity and thus, afterlife. I disagree that we do not understand that we are dead in that state, I think that’s the epitome of our realization, but we don’t think about it, our brain just relaxes and thinks about it’s past, also the heaven/hell thing may come from our last judgement of self, absolute unbiased judgement based on the values we were thought at young age.
If you subscribe to the view that we are all unconsciously constructing this reality as it currently is, then we certainly can unconsciously create realities beyond our time within this one. We’d also have to assume that we are not attached to the particular material manifestations that are produced in these realities, and that there is some aspect of ourselves (a soul perhaps) that can traverse between them. Nevertheless, these musings should probably be in the religion forum. EDIT: It appears you’ve already done that, my bad.