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.

  • YappyMonotheist@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    If I cloned you right now, would that clone be you? If I cut her, would you bleed? If I fed her, would you be full? The same principles apply, just within a different timeframe.

      • YappyMonotheist@lemmy.world
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        2 days ago

        How could it be ‘recreated’, though? I cannot conceive it. Even if I copied your ‘software’ (memories, personality, all that seems to be located in your brain) and transferred it to a different body, that still wouldn’t be you but two different entities. I think we kinda just have to make peace with the fact that death is final and that, if you want an extension, you have to dip into religion and the unknowable.