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Originally Posted by Halx
The most common question I receive from those who believe in a form of afterlife when I tell them that I don't believe anything happens to me when I die besides blink out of consciousness and start to rot is, more or less, "How do you get up in the morning and live your life when you have nothing to look forward to when it's over?"
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I wouldn't be so sure that we just blink out right away. I am pretty sure that we will exist at least for a little while after the body dies.
An OBE Experience
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Originally Posted by Halx
I'll say this in layman's terms: the human brain is designed to cut corners through the use of what we refer to as "instincts" and "human nature" along with a lot of more subtle cheats in order to limit brain usage when processing common daily sensations. The reason for this is, if you were to process through your conscious every single bit of data that your sensory receptors receive, you would overload. Good things, these little shortcuts, eh?
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I read years ago about the difficulty they were having with vision systems and what information to process in navigating bots. As they traverse across the room for instance the receptors pick up everything, the crow flying outside the window, the person making coffee in the corner, etc.. The trick is to teach the bot which information is important and which is not. The processing power to receive and categorize this information was tremendous compared to what our brains do easily in seconds.