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Has the afterlife already been disproven?
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Nope
An afterlife is incredibly unlikely, but anyone who knows anything about consciousness will tell you they don't know shit.
That's not true, the brain is more like the scaffolding that allows consciousness to exist. It's the interface a consciousness uses to pilot a body.
It's complicated and we're finding out new amazing things literally monthly, but so far while we've made ground finding out how the brain facilitates consciousness and what interrupts it...
There's nothing we've ever found that "saves" consciousness when we become unconscious. Yet people can go into a coma for months/years, and still snap back.
We don't know where the fuck that consciousness went, but it was somewhere it came back from.
But like I said, we don't "know" shit, and we as a species have barely spent any time/effort into the topic either.
We're just lucky that one of the smartest living humans picked it up as a retirement project 30 years ago and he likes to stay busy.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Penrose
He's honestly the only reason we know anything about consciousness
I will admit I am one of the crazy few rooting for Orch OR
I mean, it hasn't even been a year since we discovered microtubules could sustain quantum superposition.
That's what I'm talking about, shit is moving so fast and it's kind of crazy Penrose is alive to see it.
Einstein didn't get to live to see Penrose prove him right.
It blows my mind still every time I see a new video of him giving a presentation. The fact that he's still alive and kicking, and just the gains that we've made over his lifetime.
There's not many things to be optimistic about these days, so I take it when I can get it.