An extract from a one-sided conversation I had a while back on MSN:
*I just had
*the most intense sneeze ever
*try this:
*when you know you're going to sneeze
*breathe in heavily through the nose
*you'll sneeze with far more intensity
*its insane
*its amazing how we live our lives
*believing it will all end eventually
*so we try to make the most of it
*and we try so hard that when it doesn't happen
*we get so disappointed
*we stop enjoying life
*disappointment destroys us
*little by little
*our actions are governed by potential happiness
*in reality
*your happiness = someone else's sadness
*and your sadness = someone else's happiness
*this equilibrium is ever apparent today
*good will always come from bad
*and bad will always come from good
*these are not close-ended states of being
*they are connected loops
*we can fool ourselves into thinking there will be a point in our life where we will have it al
*but the more we try to fool ourselves
*the more disappointed we will be
*does it really matter if we impress someone
*or hurt someone
*does it really matter if we get what we want only to have it taken away from us eventually?
*we have to live our lives expecting nothing
*follow ambition but do not worship it
*a God is merely a justification for one's existence and actions
*instead, believe yourself to be a deity
*not in terms of power or superiority over others
but in terms of what you will eventually be capable of
*The human race
*is a mere stepping stone
*a primitive point in our existence
*in the thousand of years to come
*we will become more than flawed biological constructs
*but flawed artificial constructs as well
*eventually we will become something that is simply not a construct at all
*not a physical form
*but a concept, a blueprint
*for something to be constructed out of it
*Everyone believes they will eventually die
*but... why?
*because we see the evidence of others dying around us?
*because we know we are limited beings that must surely end?
*but does the end of our bodies
*really spell the end of ourselves
*our "self"
*the concept of a soul is often disregarded by scientists as it is unexplainable and doesn't fit into our knowledge of this Universe
*but perhaps they are thinking of the soul too metaphorical
**metaphorically
*perhaps the soul is merely a person's consciousness - a construct of a medium such as a brain
*and if this consciousness can be emulated in another medium
*the soul can be passed on
*between bodies
*of course
*what makes a person is not only their body and conscious
*but also their personality
*their personality is shaped from their knowledge, their memories, their overall life experiences
*to take all of this away
*and leave behind only consciousness
*you are left with a thinking being
*with nothing to think about
*and no building blocks of thought
*an infant-like state
*and if you give this consciousness new knowledge, memories and experience
*you will find you have created someone completely different
*and yet the consciousness is the same
*which leads us to believe the consciousness is merely a capability of the medium
*rather than a trait of individuality, it is a specification of the brain being able to percieve its own existence
*so therefore
*in order to live forever
*one would have to encapsulate memory, knowledge, experience of their lives
*and pass it onto another medium capable of decoding this information
*the medium would have to have conscious capability in order to make sense of this information and associate it with its new "shell"
*our souls are indeed real
*but they are not metaphysical
*they are data
*information that is stored, manipulated and constructed in a medium such as the brain
*our souls therefore change over time
*when we die
*"we" will not.
*our bodies, our mediums will die
*but they will be replaced
*and our souls will carry on existing
*the base of information is logical construction of ideas
*so long as these ideas exist in the Universe in some form
*we will never truly "die"
*we are not just bodies
*we are concepts in ourselves
*there need not be metaphysical existence if such arbitrary things like "information" can exist in physical reality
imagine
*finding out
*actually KNOWING
*you will never "die"
*I believe I will never die
*but I don't know for sure.. yet.
*and I probably never will
*however
*if I am to be passed onto another medium/body
*at some stage
*I will probably see it as proof of my eternal existence
*my ideas - and the ideas of many like me - will be satisfied
*I don't particularly like the idea of existing forever
*but...
*I dunno
*I guess I could get used to it.
*I imagine my next medium will be more capable than this one
*which is a start, at least
*some will call me insane
*but I don't care.
*maybe i'm no better than religious zealots
*who "know" they're going to heaven
*or that there is a god
*but then..
**shrugs*
*I don't KNOW anything
*I just assume everything
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