Is there a metaphysical world (i.e. an "afterlife"
that our "souls"/life energy reside in after we die) separate from,
and completely intangible to ours? Or perhaps we have a different type of soul;
quantum packets of information stored deep within our neurons that, in theory,
could maintain some sort of conscious thought outside of our body? Or maybe we
are nothing more than flesh and bones, and when we die, we're gone and the
world ceases to exist for us. Is there really such a thing as "right and
wrong", or is morality nothing more than a synthetic abstraction that
exists nowhere besides in our own minds? Do we even think, or is everything predetermined;
leaving us as mere bystanders watching our lives run their courses from a first
person point of view with the illusion that we are in control? What is reality?
Does "reality" even exist, or are even the most the basic
fundamentals that we observe (time, space, matter, energy, structure, etc.)
simply figments of whatever it is that generates our "consciousness"?
As strange of an idea as it is that everything we observe, experience, think,
and feel could be nothing more than some sort of celestial hallucination, it is
possible and cannot truly be disproved. The same goes for any thoughts/ideas
you can possibly construct. Anyways, those are some of the questions that keep
me up at night.
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