Shoutbox

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Originally posted by welshboy222
Every species must come to an end even humans, the dinosaurs met their end and so must we.

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Except I'm pretty sure that Dinosaurs couldn't do things like immaculate conception, etc. We could probably survive anything thrown at us atm .

Unless you believe in the Big Crash theory

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I agree with the people that say we just stop. But, on the other hand, I'm gonna present an alternate theory (which makes my head hurt just thinking about it).

How can you prove that other beings are concious? You percieve them to be concious, but that's only your perception. How can you prove that everything around you isn't just a dream or a faulty perception?

To digress about perception, the easiest example is colour. For example, look at the following sentence:
red green blue.
Now, we all see that as going red, blue, green. But how can you tell that what you see as red is what every one else sees as red? Assuming that another persons colours were flipped right round (mixing colours wouldn't work otherwise) then it's possible that someone else sees that as my blue, then my green, then my red.
* andrewdodd13 has a sore head already.

Anyway, back on track. How can you tell that when you die, everything around you won't cease to exist either?

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The main reason we can't explain death is because no one that's dead has ever been able to explain it to us.

But in theory, the human cortex is just like a Hard Disk with a couple of thousand terabytes of space. So, if we were able to decipher how information was stored there, and stop it from decomposing after death, we would be able to read someone's thoughts after they were dead. (Barring any moral and ethical problems, of course).

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And as someone already said, people believe in God and such because they need something to live for. I imagine it's pretty hard for people giving up their faith in religions and moving to atheism, because all the time they'd be thinking "Why am I doing this?".

* andrewdodd13 has a sore head now.