/philosophy/ - Philosophy

>What is death

Cessation of conscious and unconscious mental activity due to fatal damage or atrophy of neural tissue, followed by biological breakdown of the dead body.

The interesting question is what comes after death - afterlife, reincarnation, or just a black nothingness?

Here's a fun tidbit, we might never actually die. I don't mean that in the 'I'm scared of the void and am trying to rationalize it away' way either.

If you're smart enough to acknowledge that all senses are completely manipulable and our idea of reality is subjective, then you should be able to wrap your head around the idea that nothing around us is actually there as we know it.

I've started thinking that the entirety of what we know as reality exists within the mind of one person and all of our sensory input is fabricated. Maybe it's all in my mind and none of you are actually real, or maybe you're all fractured shards of my subconscious with independent personalities. Or perhaps it's in one of your heads and I'm one of those same shards.

Either way, if this is the case, I can technically never actually cease to exist until the universe dies. Best case scenario my consciousness is absorbed or transformed into another, worst case scenario I'm stuck in an infinite time loop with no memory of my previous incarnations and I'm doomed to shitpost and jerk off for eternity.

Assuming I'm right of course.

>>3962

Here's the way I treat all theories like that:

No matter the external structure of this existence, it does not seem to effect the internal structure of said existence. Therefore any effort spent speculating on the external structure is wasted effort, because we have no evidence upon which to speculate.

Any and all theories about living in a computer or dream, etc. are all equally valid and therefore subscribing to one is pointless. Just enjoy your time on this earth, and deal with what comes next when you get there.

>>3962

>long explanation of Solipsism

>>3967

>guys, guys! What if, I say, why if, the self is the absolute? Like I=I is the only irrefutable thing we can know, fuck the external world. It's an illusion man!

You need to read some Phyrro and get that idea fixed. The internal world world is no more secure than the external world.

>started asking "why" when we eventually realized we would die one day and that we were wasting our lives with temporary things.

You needed death to tell you that stuff was temporary?

And anyway, so what if it is temporary? Permanence has no intrinsic value.