| What happens when they put you 'asleep' before an operation with a drug.
You suddenly wake up and it's ten hours later...
Descartes said "I think, so I am"
When you don't think and you don't feel; when you don't have any perceptions,
than your body and your brain may still exist, but...
What I mean is... you simply don't know anymore...
To know or to perceive is function of building constructions out of the fragments 'flowing' around in your unconsciousness.
During an operations, the fragments in your brain still exist, but you're not building anything with them! So when you're not building, when your 'computer' isn't switched on; then you simply don't know, you simply don't perceive...
You know time has a direction; it's easier to scramble an egg than do unscramble it. Even old memories you don't use anymore and you have long forgotten are fragments flowing around in your brain. While dreaming you can suddenly remember those (even very detailed). You dream because your 'computer' is defragmenting!
Now, time has a direction; the old 'buildings', constructions in your brain you don't use anymore, fall apart and those fragments are flowing around in your unconsciousness... This is normal, this is the direction of time.
You can only be aware of something or perceive or think, by BUILDING constructions in your brain... When you don't BUILD anymore, than you simply don't KNOW anymore... Knowing or perceiving is building constructions out of other more little constructions... This is how we give signification to every data coming in in our brain... We make constructions by linking those incoming data with the fragments of our inconsciousness!
Every fragment is already a signification!!!
So everything we experience or 'see' is SUBJECTIVE.
Of course sometimes the subjective comes together with the objective...
But we can never know the objective... Because our brain constantly has to link with those fragments of signification to be aware of something or to perceive it.
Whatever you 'see'... it's subjective.
Than only way you can keep building thoughts is by keeping eating and drinking, and breathing... When you stop doing those things, then there is not enough energy left to build your thoughts; this means you don't know anymore or you don't perceive anymore.
Your body finally disappears... Only atoms exist forever...
A body exchanges every day millions and millions of atoms...
We are just a sorting of those atoms in time...
The atoms keep moving...
But we don't...
We have to find a way to download the information stored in our brain to a form of artificial intelligence or a computer, that's the only way our mind can keep on 'building'... that will be the only way to keep our consciousness alive...
The only problem is... we're not ready yet...
I hope they suceed to do it in our generation; this is the only chance we've got.
Did you know that there are milliards and milliards of connections in a human brain?...  |