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Originally Posted by Sliver
Are you being poetic or are you relaying facts as you see them? Was your post to be taken literally? Like, when I die, that means something instantly becomes alive and my consciousness goes into that thing? What is consciousness? Are you making things up, or did you read this in a book somewhere?
This thread is crazy.
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It is definitely not fact, its more of a point of view. When you die, your consciousness stops and that's all we can really say about it for sure. But if your consciousness is no longer being experienced, that doesn't mean that reality stops. Something else, somewhere else will be spontaneously coming into existence just like you did in this life, and it will require a consciousness. Suddenly, there's a whole new "you", of absolutely no connection to the old you except that it fills the void of your old consciousness. Where exactly consciousness itself comes from is also a mystery, but we can objectively say that it does happen. I think the implications of that are beyond our ability to understand.