Where do we go when we die?
I was asked…
Where does the energy from us go when we pass? Well…if you want an unromantic logical idea you have to simply understand that the energy that we live on (the electricity that races through our system) is produced by chemical reactions within our body, similar to a Duracell battery (remember that scene from The Matrix?). Now turn off the body and stop the chemical processes that go on within the system and electricity will no longer be produced. Of course there is power still left in the system on some level but that fades off into the environment in the form of heat that is created as a by product of the muscle movement (which is where the electricity steps in for one…). Simple…rational…logical.
But what about you? What about those things that make you unique? What about those pieces on the inside which are created as a by-product of the culmination of you? Your memory. The knowledge which you hold inside and continually access to explain your current. The troth of data that represents every experience of your like. How does the brain save this information? Are we like a harddrive? The physical manifestation of magnetism on a surface which turns either on or off. Are there basic little “1’s and 0’s” at the base of every synapse which flicker back and forth saving, cataloguing, adding to the count, sometimes deleting and sometime memorializing all of these experiences in the most basic fashion and reinterpreting them emotional every time they are introduced into from our memory back into our consciousness?
We do think there is a separation between long term and short term memory…you don’t need to save everything. Oddly similar to a computer in the hard drive/RAM sense. Which could mean that the hard drive that saves information in a mechanical format under a certain set of circumstances can be read externally by other devices. Can a brain be removed and the physical aspects of memory be read in a manner that would be interpreted? Or must it be sustained by the electrical reactions maintaining the position of parts (much like RAM)? It is probably the case that the shutting off of a body will soon lead to decay within the system (rusting anyone?).
Could one day we catalogue all of the knowledge of people by reading their physical structures externally? All knowledge of all beings instantly known among all minds.
Where does the energy from us go when we pass? Well…if you want an unromantic logical idea you have to simply understand that the energy that we live on (the electricity that races through our system) is produced by chemical reactions within our body, similar to a Duracell battery (remember that scene from The Matrix?). Now turn off the body and stop the chemical processes that go on within the system and electricity will no longer be produced. Of course there is power still left in the system on some level but that fades off into the environment in the form of heat that is created as a by product of the muscle movement (which is where the electricity steps in for one…). Simple…rational…logical.
But what about you? What about those things that make you unique? What about those pieces on the inside which are created as a by-product of the culmination of you? Your memory. The knowledge which you hold inside and continually access to explain your current. The troth of data that represents every experience of your like. How does the brain save this information? Are we like a harddrive? The physical manifestation of magnetism on a surface which turns either on or off. Are there basic little “1’s and 0’s” at the base of every synapse which flicker back and forth saving, cataloguing, adding to the count, sometimes deleting and sometime memorializing all of these experiences in the most basic fashion and reinterpreting them emotional every time they are introduced into from our memory back into our consciousness?
We do think there is a separation between long term and short term memory…you don’t need to save everything. Oddly similar to a computer in the hard drive/RAM sense. Which could mean that the hard drive that saves information in a mechanical format under a certain set of circumstances can be read externally by other devices. Can a brain be removed and the physical aspects of memory be read in a manner that would be interpreted? Or must it be sustained by the electrical reactions maintaining the position of parts (much like RAM)? It is probably the case that the shutting off of a body will soon lead to decay within the system (rusting anyone?).
Could one day we catalogue all of the knowledge of people by reading their physical structures externally? All knowledge of all beings instantly known among all minds.
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