If you simply "go to sleep" when you die...
...do you think you could also "dream"? There have been tests done that show you do indeed preserve a consciousness after death.
It's a nice thought to the alternative: Absolutely nothing. As in forever sleep. Depressing as ****.
If I could have nice dreams about family that'd be cool.
I don't think you go to sleep when you die, your brain stops functioning, no electrical signals and therefore there's no dreaming.
Now if there's an afterlife of some manner where your consciousness somehow leaves your dead body and goes somewhere and functions on some level, I have no idea, it's a nice thought though.
Originally posted by RobtardYeah, it's living people trying to replicate the dead's consciousness. We call it grief.
I don't think you go to sleep when you die, your brain stops functioning, no electrical signals and therefore there's no dreaming.Now if there's an afterlife of some manner where your consciousness somehow leaves your dead body and goes somewhere and functions on some level, I have no idea, it's a nice thought though.
Philosophically speaking there are 2 deaths. The first one is when you physically can't breathe or move because your heart stops and your brain shuts down, but the other is when no other human ever utters your name or talks about you again.
That's why famous people like Einstein and Newton are not dead. They exist within our consciousnesses.
Originally posted by Blakemorebut only as names and achievements, not as people with personally known and perfectly copied personalities. These memories are just artifacts.
Philosophically speaking there are 2 deaths. The first one is when you physically can't breathe or move because your heart stops and your brain shuts down, but the other is when no other human ever utters your name or talks about you again.That's why famous people like Einstein and Newton are not dead. They exist within our consciousnesses.