Does death exist? New theory says 'no'

i really don't understand why people have the delusion that they are something special. What all life is, is a series of ongoing chemical reactions, who's goal is to procreate and continue the species. Our conscious and self is nothing more than an evolutionary trait, and hold no higher meaning or significance in the universe.

hsween5 is proposing that all these past lives, human or animal, are sick of waiting around and rejoining all at once, therefore creating an increase in world population.
Maybe that's why there are so many weird-dos about these days. er, maybe it's something in the water.

I couldn't agree with you more.

^ Haha, appreciated.

Whatever......more silliness......

It depresses me to see otherwise apparently intelligent people calling this science.

Not one word of documented and corroborated evidence in that article. Just comments like 'researchers have found _____', which is the same tactic fox news uses to propr up their bogus arguments. Where's the peer-reviewed hard data? Or isn't there any?

I mean- 'language-modulated laser rays' - come on guys.......

FTA: "Living chromosomes function just like a holographic computer using endogenous DNA laser radiation."

Yeah, this isn't real...

Like someone once said..... And I can't remember who....Oh those Russians.......Always same place......Same time... I'm just beginning to get the trend.

I think there is a very specific scientific question there that they are testing, that being "Why does time only go forward?"

Quantum Theory acts as though it doesn't. So why does everything else we perceive act that way?

If time doesn't always march on, death is less scary. Because instead of us being left behind by the advancement of time, our life is essentially the construction of a permanent 4-dimensional object in a specific slice of time.

Death is then just us reaching the tail end of the construction of that object, something no scarier than our birth.

I agree the bit about the "energy going somewhere else" is bizarre and definitely a bit too metaphysical for me.

But still, their work on time is useful, if only to help us realize that we perceive everything through a biological filter, and that the unfiltered reality might be far different.

I don't really see how that makes any difference. From a subjective viewpoint (which is all we have), time still goes by, we still die, things end.

It's not so much that I disagree with what they're saying about time (it's one of many theories), but more about their tendency to use psedoscientific arguments to prop up metaphysics, and their attempts to apply this relevantly to the human experience. Sure maybe from a scientific perspective we can propose that the universe is timeless (still an unprovable assertion), but since we can never experience it that way, what relevance is there in such a statement. It's an untestable theory that's completely irrelevant.

What bugs me is all that stuff about the 'many worlds' theory, the 20 watts, the transcendence of energy, etc., etc.

It's hoo-hoo.

the idea is definitely more oriented towards engaging the philosophical aspects of death, time, and our place within that construct by using some scientific ideas as a bases; however the argument is not presented soundly and with some very large assumptions.

All that being said, what laser dog has to say about the our understanding of space-time and the relevance to our own existence is still important on a human emotional level. It can rationally allow ourselves to see how we fit into the nature of existence, thus allowing people all the comforts of religion while minimizing the negative aspects.

And Grammar!

Completely true.

to die by your side, well the pleasure, the privilege is mine.

Not true.

I just clicked on your mentioned site and went to his source link. There is no time, anyone who contemplates an imaginary place of stop, understands this. However, your friends here quickly assume that the universe must then be a series of stopped, endlessly conjoined whole realities, leading one to the next. This view, I certainly believe to be illusion.
They wish to propose a "snap-shot" of all, and then reproduce it endlessly. From this perhaps, they also wish to think all snap-shots exist always.

That is the one flaw, for any such snap-shot is a construction of their appreciations or of inferences and if taken as a moment, regardless, resolves forever forward. 'Forward' here must attain because the notion of an artificial stop (which they propose) demands it.
I saw an interesting sign once, it said "The Eternal Now"

So there are not infinite segmentations. The past is the past - and can only be remembered. States of what was are gone, non-existent. The future does not exist. Only the now.
So your friends are only half-right.

I agree. But the "now" is not "YOU",....not "the ego".

It's all happening in the now. The 'you' part is a matter of your experience - the process of a human brain creates experience. If we ask ourselves to consider a point or 'slice' of time, we can not see an experience because experience is stretched over an expanse of time. It takes time for process - biological process - to produce for us, our experience.
So in very real ways, the notion of a 'you' is a fraud. A fiction of process.

I second that.

Not true, your brain is an experience-creating machine and when you're dead, you're done.
When the brain stops, you stop and it becomes someone's else's turn.

Oh Christ please don't post David Icke's crazy shit here. Thats a little much 0_o

The brain works by having a continuously firing set of neural nets connected to and stabilizing several sets of destabilized nets. Restabilizing, destabilized nets. That's the job. Such net-states are de-stabilized by the continuous input from sensory signals. The job of the continuously firing sets, that part of your experience that seems always "on" or aware, is to build the experiences as they are created within your brain during and by the above process.
You are a machine. You are connected to and part of the thoughts and what seems "experience" as it happens - because you are creating the experience by the process, as it happens, or as fast as you are capable of creating it.

Sometimes outside influences out-pace your ability to keep up, unfortunately.

agreed.