Do you believe in after life ?

[Y3LL0WM4GT]

Do you believe or think that after death there is after life ? What do you think about people who nearly died and saying that they saw a "long tunnel with white light at the end" ?

Please express yourself with more than one word answer as I and I'm sure others too want to have intelligent conversation here

 

[DoubleKamui]

I believe in reincarnation; that once you die, you will be reborn in another body. I haven't thought much about the afterlife but I don't like to think that nothing happens after death.

 

[Flakez]

No.

We're just a living organism that eventually dies and rots into the ground. Nothing more, nothing less. That is what I believe.

 

[Edenia]

I don't know how to explain this to you but I believe that when we die it's like the feeling you have before you were born...a void, nothing, I believe somehow we might be born again and never realise it.

That tunnel apparently happens because of a biological reaction in our eyes when we die, I read that in a sciences' article but can't remember the details :|

 

[Prometheus Beta]

No, I do not. The mind might be an emergent system (in the sense that the term is used in complexity theory) but it is nevertheless one emerging from biology. Since the mind is nothing more than the product of the interaction of nerve cells, what happens when your brain dies? The same thing that happens to your computer if you were to destroy its CPU.
A belief in the after-life seems to me to inherently require the "ghost in the machine".

You must be registered for see links

Any form of the ghost in the (biological) machine is basically just another variety of the soul, actually it is less than that since even moral behaviour (that behaviour religion sanctifies most as uniquely holy) can now be explained biologically (see the evolution of altruism). The soul is thus a totally redundant concept.

 

[Edenia]

No, I do not. The mind might be an emergent system (in the sense that the term is used in complexity theory) but it is nevertheless one emerging from biology. Since the mind is nothing more than the product of the interaction of nerve cells, what happens when your brain dies? The same thing that happens to your computer if you were to destroy its CPU.
A belief in the after-life seems to me to inherently require the "ghost in the machine".

You must be registered for see links

Any form of the ghost in the (biological) machine is basically just another variety of the soul, actually it is less than that since even moral behaviour (that behaviour religion sanctifies most as uniquely holy) can now be explained biologically (see the evolution of altruism). The soul is thus a totally redundant concept.

really? I never saw this. Could you perhaps have any article or font I can read into that? Im curious. The biologic evolution of altruism as a survival feature we developed biologically?

 

[Prometheus Beta]

really? I never saw this. Could you perhaps have any article or font I can read into that? Im curious. The biologic evolution of altruism as a survival feature we developed biologically?

The problem of altruism has been one of evolutionary biology's greatest, historically actually. There is a lot of popular science literature on the subject. The most well known piece of literature in pop culture I imagine would be Richard Dawkins "The Selfish Gene".

You must be registered for see links

The technical mumbo jumbo is here.

You must be registered for see links

 

[Conspirator.]

Nope. Once we die, I believe our bodies are nothing more than empty shells under the ground, who are only useful for scavengers.

 

[Waindo]

So, I was clinically dead few years back, and had an outer body experience within that moments. So, pretty much I only saw my body there in the bed from above before waking up, I did not experience any stereotype lights at the end of the tunnel or any sort of things like that; but that moments pretty much turnt me from a 100 percent atheist to an agnostic.

Do I believe with certainty that there is life after death? I'll see when I die again.