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Originally Posted by Russic
I recall a philosophy prof in university discussing the common near-death experience of looking down on your own body and asking "does that mean your soul has an optic nerve?" That always stuck with me as a good point. Even if there's an afterlife, you wouldn't have the necessary hardware to interpret anything (thoughts and feelings included).
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But are we sure that the hardware required to run these meat sacks, is the same hardware required for whatever may or may not come next?
Personally, I've had that near death out of body experience, and can say, that while I had audio and visual senses, they were very different than what I'd experienced before, or what I've experienced since. It's hard to explain, but everything seemed to have an electric field, visually and audibly, radiant light and a hum, but everything was crystal clear, no matter how distant. The strangest feeling however, was the complete emotional disconnection. One second it was shear terror, then nothing. Complete calm, while I witnessed pandemonium, then terror again as I came to.
Has led me to believe that there is more beyond this, and when we're able to disconnect, we move on to another level of existence. Though as a completely different self.