RE: Ask me anything #004 - The social interaction experiment. 1.38 SBD prize | El experimento de interacción social
Hello! I just found your blog (I got here for your stickynote challenge post). I realized that you are learning Spanish and other languages at the same time, that's great! I want to learn Japanese, French and German. I speak Spanish, but I also learned English. I can write in English (I'm still making some mistakes xD), but to pronounce the words is... another story, haha. I'm not so bad at that, but I definitely don't have the accent of a native speaker.
I've many questions in mind. I wanted to ask you if you liked horror movies (that question came to mind because of the door image), but then, I thought about asking you what it means to die, etc.
Read this:
A judge sentences a young woman to life imprisonment, takes away her home, car, watch and family. Now, the question is: What does it take away first?
The answer to the riddle: The first thing she has taken away is her freedom. I do like puzzles :)
My toughs on what it means to die. This used to be one of the questions I would repeat over and over in my head when I had time to waste, couldn't sleep etc. At age 12 I was of the strong belief the experience after death would be very much like it was before you were born, you would not be in it, a void blank nothingness. This idea while bleak seemed to answer all the questions I had.... but eventually my thoughts started to change. As I became more interested in math and physics, I eventually came to a conclusion that a kind of reincarnation must exists. Its all just a matter of scale and time.
What it is to be alive, is all the parts that make up 'you' and more importantly the correct arrangement of those parts. If you change the arrangement too much, like removing all the blood, you will stop being alive. Now we simply need to consider a truly infinite universe, which within it will contain all of the different possible parts, and over time all of the possible arrangements.
Basically, even if you die, at this time, on this planet, over time, the chance of that arrangement making up 'you' ever existing again, is almost certain by a factor of over 1x10^7:1
The really interesting part is all the stuff that happens between the times we exists for.
All the parts that make us up were at one point stardust, and will be again, the pattern repeating, over and over, but changing a little each time as well.
I'm am also willing to believe all of this is wrong, If I can come up with a better theory, but so far, this one does me well.
Your answer is interesting. People had never told me anything like that. I believe that dying is not just about ceasing to exist (from a physical point of view). You can die while you're still alive. This is a spiritual or mental death (as you prefer to see it). When you don't have a purpose in your life (or you just don't know yet), nothing satisfies you, etc; you simply leave your bed to repeating your routine every day, for me, that is to be dead.
I believe that when your body it's not tangible anymore, your conscience, spirit or whatever you prefer to call it, it passes to another plane. I think you're frozen in time, and eventually, you come back to our world as a new person (reincarnation). As you say, this cycle is repeated again and again.