On the notion of Afterlife.

I would dare say that majority of earth's population disbelieve in the existence of a life after our own. Just like most of our ancestors, the common reason seem to be the difficulty of grasping the possibility of a life after our biological reduction to waste materials, and further enhanced by the absence of solid evidence of such a life – no 'returners' to narrate its existence.

So no chance of 'another' life ? Well, examine these theories that feed the possibility.

Nick Bostrom, Oxford professor and philosopher, Director of the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University, known for his paper 'The Simulation Argument' . The argument postulates the possibility (a rather high one) that we may be living in the likeness of a computer simulation, controlled from another dimensional level,when asked about certain implication of the simulation hypothesis, here is what he had to say : " The last section of the original paper speculated about certain parallels that could be drawn between traditional religious conceptions and our relations to our hypothetical simulators. These simulators would have created our world, they would be able to monitor everything that happens here, and they would be able to intervene in ways that conflict with the simulated default laws of nature. Moreover, they would presumably be superintelligent (in order to be able to create such a simulation in the first place). An afterlife in a different simulation or at a different level of reality after death-in-the-simulation would be a real possibility. It is even conceivable that the simulators might reward or punish their simulated creatures based to how they behave, perhaps according to familiar moral or religious norms (a possibility that gains a little bit of credibility from the possibility that the simulators might be the descendants of earlier humans who recognized these norms). "

In that analogy, death is nothing but a transfer from one simulated existence to another, and we are but characters, downloaded from one existence , ending our presence in it, only to be uploaded to another, to continue the existential progression.

Similarly, The Dream Argument , which eventually leads to the query : How do you distinsguish a dream from reality, as Rene Descartes puts it "there are no certain indications by which we may clearly distinguish wakefulness from sleep", given that in a dream all your senses can be fully engaged, and – thus – how do you know that we are not living a dream, and hence 'waking up ' to a new world at our final eye lid closure ?

To be Continued…..





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