What happens when we die?

>We have been watching people die for a million years
>We have no idea
Lights go out and you decompose if they just chuck you in the clay.

You turn into a ghost, which are bizarre electromagnetic fields and areas of low temperature and pressure.

Weve also been watching human behavior for millions of years yet we still cant see what people are actually thinking.

Hopefully I am not reborn because its exhausting. Also I'm really hoping it isn't like the movie "enter the void".

You shit yourself.

Into the Void has always had the most terrifying mode of afterlife imo
Complete cuckoldry and there's nothing you can do but watch

Your brain goes into a seizure and you slowly fade away. Takes about three minutes or so.

Watching death is different from experiencing it

>when we die
then bacteria are fed

We can tell from observing a developing child that mental faculties develop gradually and that there is no clear point at which a full-fledged human mind enters the world. We can tell from brain injuries that personhood and mental abilities are distributed in and carried out by the brain, making it much more plausible that it's not just an intermediary for conscience but the fundamental level of operation. This is evidence against the idea of souls.

And without souls, there is absolutely nothing mystic about death. Dying means for what we call a "person" to cease existing. That is the only stance grounded in solid evidence. What others may bring forward as a counter (NDE testimony, for example) is basically hearsay that is made wholly unreliable given what we know about confabulation and how humans process, create and retrieve memories.

A flame isn't conscious

Observation is different from experience

sciencealert.com/a-man-who-lives-without-90-of-his-brain-is-challenging-our-understanding-of-consciousness

That link does not in any way invalidate what I have posted.

You are reducing consciousness to a simple physical matter, I just wanted to point out how that may be challenged. A new hypothesis came out of that study, but it still is a challenge to what consciousness is, in relation to brain injuries/structural anomalies

Damn, I guess the brain is just an organ for cooling blood after all. I wonder what the real organ of consciousness is. Probably the liver.

For what matters ( your awareness and your personality ) it goes away, stops. The universe goes on.

So when I shut down my computer - the OS goes into another form right?

This is accurate, also when death is 100% guaranteed for the brain and it enters in the fucked up seizure mode ( which fucks up everything ) - it also takes the heart away with it, probably in evolutionary terms a safety measure in case the seizure would not result in death the thing left behind would be an odd zombie.

for me at least:
die at some point in the 2070s
cryogenic preservation
sleepy time for decades
wake up in glorious posthuman age
???
profit

Tell us more about your special matter then. ( not the guy you were responding to, he's 100% right your link does not invalidate his argument )

What evolutionary pressures would select for not being alive while braindead? How specifically would the trait of having your heart stop when your brain dies help a creature survive and reproduce more successfully than creatures who don't have that trait?

It got in there, evolution is a random - non-intelligent process what did you expect?

You talk as if you're blaming God.. lol.

What? Evolution isn't just random, traits survive and propagate into future populations based on how much they promote or work against a creature'a ability to survive and reproduce. Your idea about heart stopping being an evolutionary 'safety measure' is inane. Again, how would that possibly be selecred for? Having your heart stop doesn't make you better at surviving or reproducing, evolution doesn't care about making sure you don't become an 'odd zombie' after braun death.

god removes you from the material world and suspends you until the day of judgment
or something like that

>how can my car break down when car technology is improving
My God you are retarded.

You go back to where you where before you were born

No, that's not my complaint at all. You made the claim that heart stopping in response to brain death was an 'evolutionary safety measure' because you're a retard who throws around the word 'evolution' as a magic explanation for everything. Again, how exactly would heart stopping in response to brain death be selected for?

It was not me, the guy you responded to
The thing evolution gave us indeed works as a safety measure - but there was no higher purpose n evolution to keep it, there can always be a more efficient method - or it could've been dropped all together - it's just what stick with us.

Maybe it's a thing that all animals have - it just happens man, on death the brain triggers auto-destruction of heart for unknown purposes. It's wrong indeed to assume any reason for it - it simply stick with us.