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Originally posted by DrinkYourDrug
Agreed. I would suggest that anyone who hopes for an eternal afterlife hasn't really thought it all the way through. Once you've seen everything there is to see, done everything there is to do, for the ten trillionth time, and realise you're just getting started on eternity, you're going to want to get off that ship.
What this all means is that it is pretty likely that your conscious identity - the combination and impact of all the experience and rumination influenced configurations you've created, joined in common authorship as an identified whole - will survive the coming physical transition intact.
Originally posted by 1littlewolf
reply to post by NorEaster
I do believe in the concept of the Akashic Records, or as (I think you call them) the Information Continuum).
But for the identity to live on as strongly as you suggest NE it would suggest that memories themselves are somehow hard wired into the soul. What if they are not.....?
Identity is made up of:
1.your initial personality and
2. your memory of events you were involved in and how they turned out.
If your memory is purely a physical thing stored in the brain, this would explain why (assuming reincarnation exists) you have no knowledge of your previous life when you reborn on this physical plane, yet everyone has such a strongly ingrained personality from the very start. Loss of these memories, at least as being particular to you (here I am assuming after death you do have open access to the Akashic Records), would represent a significant loss of the identity you had built up over the course of one particular lifetime.
Originally posted by DrinkYourDrug
reply to post by NorEaster
That fertilized eggs have less self awareness than adult humans does not prove or even increase the likelihood of an afterlife where the identity you have created for yourself goes off to live for eternity, no matter how much convoluted language is used to describe it.
What this all means is that it is pretty likely that your conscious identity - the combination and impact of all the experience and rumination influenced configurations you've created, joined in common authorship as an identified whole - will survive the coming physical transition intact.
Your conscious identity is an abstraction created by the brain and ceases the moment the brain creating it dies.
We live on after death because there is nothing that is not who we really are.
Originally posted by redkarma
We have no way of knowing but one thing I am sure of is that no one has come back (in my family or other peoples families I know) to let us know?