2021-07-21, 09:17 AM
I thought I'd post this here since it's a bit of a personal musing. Something I think about often is how an afterlife, if it exists, relates to existence at large. When I say that, I mean physics, the universe Ect. Among academic parapsychology there's a number of ideas on how survival and conscious might operate, but unless one takes a hard non physicalist (maybe something like pure idealism, not just dualism) stance it seems like they'll still have to interact with existence as we know it now.
Things I wonder, related to that is:
- On top of questions like what might an afterlife be like, is it eternal? Depending on your views on physics, the universe is eventually going to run down until heat death. If that's the case, if an afterlife is related to the state of the universe at large (such as souls actually being some kind of unknown physical information) will it slowly fade away? Or in the case of a cyclic universe, or vacuum decay, will it be destroyed? Or, even, what happens when humanity dies out? If the afterlife is related to our continued existence.
- Related to that, if reincarnation is in fact true, what happens when there are no longer any humans to reincarnate into? Will be just be stuck?
- Back to the above, if the universe is cyclic and a new universe comes after ours, does that mean we're going to have weird aliens pop up, if we don't have them already?
There's other questions to be asked about other interpretations of quantum physics such as string theory, many worlds theory and how they relate. Or even things like free will and if we don't actually have it here, will we have it in an afterlife kind of thing. But these are just some of the ones that rattle around in my head. What do you guys think?
Things I wonder, related to that is:
- On top of questions like what might an afterlife be like, is it eternal? Depending on your views on physics, the universe is eventually going to run down until heat death. If that's the case, if an afterlife is related to the state of the universe at large (such as souls actually being some kind of unknown physical information) will it slowly fade away? Or in the case of a cyclic universe, or vacuum decay, will it be destroyed? Or, even, what happens when humanity dies out? If the afterlife is related to our continued existence.
- Related to that, if reincarnation is in fact true, what happens when there are no longer any humans to reincarnate into? Will be just be stuck?
- Back to the above, if the universe is cyclic and a new universe comes after ours, does that mean we're going to have weird aliens pop up, if we don't have them already?
There's other questions to be asked about other interpretations of quantum physics such as string theory, many worlds theory and how they relate. Or even things like free will and if we don't actually have it here, will we have it in an afterlife kind of thing. But these are just some of the ones that rattle around in my head. What do you guys think?