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Is anyone else just a teensy bit excited for death? (Not a cry for help, I'm fine, just hear me out)

Not saying i wanna off myself or anything I'm just talking about the fact that death is THE unknown of all unkowns. NO ONE KNOWS what is going to be in death no matter how much they may claim to.

But one day we're gonna find out, we're all going to find out, and that shit has got to be so surreal. Those last few moments of cognition before the big reveal are gonna be so wild dude.

And as for what comes after? Mystery of mysteries. I can't help but intensely wonder.

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BlueVeins · 22-25

Honestly I think it's one of those obvious things people sorta pretend is a big mystery but is fairly obvious when you take out all the fluff. Everything we know about neurology and psychology suggests that the mind is what the brain does. Logically, this means that when the brain doesn't function anymore, the mind stops existing.

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@BlueVeins neurology and psychology, along with all other scientific disciplines, are strictly limited to what can be percieved by our senses and the equipment we use to extend said senses.

But death is beyond the mind and beyond the senses.

So that is just as much a guess as any other.

BlueVeins · 22-25

@SW-User Direct scientific observation is, but those observations can be used to extrapolate stuff that we can't observe. I mean, no piece of equipment is capable of seeing a black hole, but we can logic out their existence based on the effect that their gravity has on nearby objects. While there's obv a degree of uncertainty surrounding the mind thanks to the hard problem of consciousness, what we're talking about is analogous to what happens to your software when you throw your computer into a volcano. Sure, it's possible that it all gets uploaded into a hard drive in another dimension somewhere... but that's not what Occam's Razor would dictate one believe.

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@BlueVeins fair point, but jumping to conclusions is unscientific. And the hard fact of the matter is that there is too much mud floating in the water to make safe assumptions about the deep.

Only way to know for sure is to jump in...but then there's no way out to tell the tale...a lot like a black hole.

And speaking of black holes, we actually don't know what the singularity truly is. We have mathematical models that give us certain 'likely' qualities but if physics break down in the singularity then that means that things could be going on in there that are beyond what we understand about nature and the universe...things that physics says should be impossible.

Black holes have an event horizon, and so too does death.

We have a great understanding of all events leading up to the threshold, but beyond the veil there is something that can only be speculated about.

MethDozer · M

@BlueVeins Just throwing this out there but there's also different dimensions we assume by calculating what we observe. Just like your black hole example. We can't observe them by our existence to be able to know whether our conciousness or not exists or moves in them.