I did get messed up by some anxiety and have these thoughts rolling through my head so I’ll leave it at cosmic horror warning.

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I’m not religious but I have thoughts about experiencing consciousness and what it is. I say that consciousness is independent of memory because we forget, clearly dependent on our physical body, etc. generally I do say that we don’t know consciousness so maybe it can be reconstructed (in the can’t rule out the possibility way)

So I can see scenarios were my conscious could pop into existence without my memories after I die (as I’m writing this I realized that’s nothing to fear).

I am trying to adopt healthier mindset of looking at everything in life as a quest, new things are a call to action, and that it’s okay if everything I do amounts to little in x number of years (worked out okay for ozymandias, right?).

Im probably just rambling because my life has got boring and monotonous along with actual fear of American politics.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.socialEnglish
    201·
    2 days ago

    If it was real and you could retain memories of past lives, I’m confident we’d have some evidence/proof.

    If it exists without memory retention and its just some sort of “soul” concept then it really doesn’t matter since you won’t remember anything for it to be worth worrying about.

    • snooggums@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 day ago

      The fact that brain injuries can erase memories shows that memory isn’t going to continue when the brain no longer functions.

    • Der_Mann_mit_Hut@feddit.org
      21·
      2 days ago

      I have this little pet theory:

      What if the memory is simply overwritten? A toddler, having not much experienced much in life may remember some stuff but as soon as new memories are formed the “old” memories are overwritten…

      I mean, it at least would explain why my 2 year old has recently run an eerily convincing musket drill and bayonett charge with a stick while i am pretty sure he never has seen something like that on TV…

    • Cattail@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      2 days ago

      I was thinking you’d be “reincarnated” or reconstituted via Boltzmann’s brain scenario and you’d get your memories back after some crazy amount of time, but I get that could happen at an earlier stage in life. Sounds like the “universe was created 5 minutes ago along with all our memories” BS

      It’s interesting having someone tell me to not worry about it.

    • QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works
      13·
      1 day ago

      Ever hear of Dr. Ian Stevenson?

      Edit: Not sure why I’m being downvoted, dude looked into reincarnation and had hundreds of documented cases, Carl Sagan wanted people to look more into it

      • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.socialEnglish
        21·
        1 day ago

        He emphasized that the information he collected was suggestive of reincarnation but “was not flawless and it certainly does not compel such a belief.”

        If even the guy who had done the most research on it doesn’t believe in it, why should anyone else?

        • QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works
          12·
          20 hours ago

          Don’t cherrypick qoutes.

          Regardless he had to say that to give himself an out, there was concern that he’d be judged negatively for even suggesting reincarnation. Something proven by your own hostility.

          • Ledivin@lemmy.world
            11·
            11 hours ago

            When you see anyone disagreeing with you as hostility, you’ve clearly lost the thread.

            Stop trying to twist his words in weird ways that benefit your stance, he very literally said we shouldn’t believe.