Posted by TexasChic on December 22, 2005, at 19:16:58
In reply to Re: trigger **** » Deneb, posted by alexandra_k2 on December 18, 2005, at 16:14:46
> Though... For the record...
> I'd like to be cremated.
> Or if I'm buried...
> I'd like a tree to be planted over top of me.
> Round about where my belly button is / was
> Let me think on what kind of tree...
> I think I want something with good strong roots...
> Because the point is to be part of the tree...That's beautiful. I'd like it to be a Magnolia.
> Just in case it does feel like something to be dead
> And your consciousness is still associated with your body / brain...
> I'd like the particles to become part of another living thing...
> I imagine that would take a number of years.
>
> I have been thinking...
> I wonder if air has distributed consciousness.
> I mean...
> We do.
> Our brains...
> Different things going on in different parts of our brains
> Produces different effects in our conscious experience
> Our conscious experience is distributed in space
> I wonder what happens to it when we die
> Maybe it needs to be instantiated on / realised on something physical
> Like money is more than bits of paper and metal but money needs some physical instantiation or other...
> I wonder if it breaks up...
> Becomes less distributed...
> Or whether we become more distributed...
> Whats it like to be air???
> A gas???
>
Whoa, deep. I've actually thought somewhere along those lines. There are things that would seem umbelievable to us now, but may be understood in the future. Its the way its always been. So who's to know if 'ghosts' actually exist and can be explained scientifically, but we're just not advanced enough to understand yet.-T
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