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.

    • FlordaMan@lemmy.world
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      4 hours ago

      I think conclusively stating that is a bit much, we don’t know shit about how consciousness works, do how can we know what happens if it ends?

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      3 hours ago

      Why would you think that being born is the same as dying?

      (hint: it isn’t the same at all)

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        49 seconds ago

        Not existing before and after is technically the same, please provide any scientific article of it being otherwise, I’m open to that.

        One could argue even the development arc of humans is backwards towards the end. The process of dying is not the same as being born, if you mean that.

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      7 hours ago

      Yeah I can forgot random days of my life so I don’t remember those days. I get the perspective I’m just illustrating a point

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        5 hours ago

        If you want to play with that thought in a horrible way you might want to have a look at the episode white Christmas from black mirror.