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We were never nothing. Matter cannot be created nor destroyed.
I'm talking about our consciousness, though. It doesn't matter what the individual atoms do if we individually end up losing our own capacity to experience the best that our lives have to offer (unless you're beset by some major chronic illness, of course, but that's not what I'm talking about here).
However, if you believe death isn't the end, I'd love to read your thoughts because I'd love for it to not be true. All the evidence suggests that it is, though...
It doesn’t matter to our current consciousness as it can’t perceive anything outside of that. We do not know what is beyond our rudimentary understanding of what makes us who we are.
Something like this seems far more likely to me than consciousness being finite.
https://youtu.be/h6fcK_fRYaI
Keyword being like this, as in whatever is actually going on is far beyond our comprehension, but it’s a nice palatable story that gives it shape. Consciousness might exist beyond death as part of a universal ‘field of awareness’ and reality could be a holographic projection from a deeper non local field of information. Upon death the quantum information could “return” to the universe (orchestrated objective reduction), Monadism, fractal consciousness, pantheism, etc.
I read that short story years back, yeah. I am also aware of the possibility that we could be in a lifelong simulation, which actually sort of falls back in line with Christian thought about this life just being a prelude to the real one.
I guess I just wish we had to go off more than merely hypothesizing...