I don't buy the multiverse idea (and if I did, I wouldn't buy THIS idea that "your consciousness flees your body just before you die and inhabits one of 'your' bodies in another universe" -- what happens to the soul of THAT body, or are all the infinite number of bodies in the infinite number of universes just zombies until YOUR soul -- you being apparently the only "REAL" version of you -- jumps into some other schmuck's body? And as the centuries roll by, how is it that a copy of your body is still around to take over?).
There is ANOTHER quantum-based idea about mortality that some of us might be interested in, although I have trouble with it because it lacks any visible mechanism for memory retention -- certain types of brain damage can erase memories because memory is stored in the physical brain; if the immaterial soul had a way to store memories, that wouldn't be an issue.
The theory I'm discussing is best described by Kastrup and basically consists of these ideas:
Consciousness is primary; the physical is secondary. Quantum wave theory, which states that elementary particles, such as light and electrons, are nodes (or call it what you will) on the probability waves that carry the particles; see the Double-Slit experiment for details proving that particles are waves of probability -- which Kastrup sees as emanations of the universal consciousness -- until they are observed (which has a specialized meaning broader than the common one).
The physical brain is constantly, iteratively self-reflective and this causes a small amount of the universal consciousness to be captured and dissociated from the whole, much as in multiple personality disorder where one conscious personality is isolated from the others. The result is a person's soul, which does something the glob-of-matter-brain cannot do on its own: EXPERIENCE what happens in the brain and body and exert free will (possible due to quantum uncertainty and more).
After death, including after a temporary death (e.g., someone "brought back from the dead" via an EMT's revival efforts or whatever), the soul re-merges with the Universal Consciousness.
What I DON'T see is any method to take one's memories with the soul; without the physical brain, there isn't any mechanism for that in the theory (unless I've missed something).
Of course, that doesn't mean there ISN'T such a mechanism; this is, after all, just a theory and while it seems well supported in a number of ways I don't think of it as any more than a sketch. I like it, though.
I believe memories are written into the fabric of things. Like a cosmic blockchain. We exist within this fabric and theoretically could access any of it. Psychics, remote viewing, all of that stuff, is just being done by people with an ability to tap into this information.
I like that idea, and have wondered if something like that might exist. It would allow for actual "survival after death", perhaps -- IF it included the survival of the personality and memories together in a cohesive sub-entity instead of being smeared out among the entire universe. Or maybe the "entire universe" can isolate and make use of those memories and personality patterns of "you", sort of reconstituting you as needed or wanted.
Even simple biology is insanely complex and we are STILL learning about forces, mechanisms, etc that help even single cells function; I doubt very much that human minds can fully comprehend the nature of the whole damn universe.
I don't buy the multiverse idea (and if I did, I wouldn't buy THIS idea that "your consciousness flees your body just before you die and inhabits one of 'your' bodies in another universe" -- what happens to the soul of THAT body, or are all the infinite number of bodies in the infinite number of universes just zombies until YOUR soul -- you being apparently the only "REAL" version of you -- jumps into some other schmuck's body? And as the centuries roll by, how is it that a copy of your body is still around to take over?).
There is ANOTHER quantum-based idea about mortality that some of us might be interested in, although I have trouble with it because it lacks any visible mechanism for memory retention -- certain types of brain damage can erase memories because memory is stored in the physical brain; if the immaterial soul had a way to store memories, that wouldn't be an issue.
The theory I'm discussing is best described by Kastrup and basically consists of these ideas:
Consciousness is primary; the physical is secondary. Quantum wave theory, which states that elementary particles, such as light and electrons, are nodes (or call it what you will) on the probability waves that carry the particles; see the Double-Slit experiment for details proving that particles are waves of probability -- which Kastrup sees as emanations of the universal consciousness -- until they are observed (which has a specialized meaning broader than the common one).
The physical brain is constantly, iteratively self-reflective and this causes a small amount of the universal consciousness to be captured and dissociated from the whole, much as in multiple personality disorder where one conscious personality is isolated from the others. The result is a person's soul, which does something the glob-of-matter-brain cannot do on its own: EXPERIENCE what happens in the brain and body and exert free will (possible due to quantum uncertainty and more).
After death, including after a temporary death (e.g., someone "brought back from the dead" via an EMT's revival efforts or whatever), the soul re-merges with the Universal Consciousness.
What I DON'T see is any method to take one's memories with the soul; without the physical brain, there isn't any mechanism for that in the theory (unless I've missed something).
Of course, that doesn't mean there ISN'T such a mechanism; this is, after all, just a theory and while it seems well supported in a number of ways I don't think of it as any more than a sketch. I like it, though.
I believe memories are written into the fabric of things. Like a cosmic blockchain. We exist within this fabric and theoretically could access any of it. Psychics, remote viewing, all of that stuff, is just being done by people with an ability to tap into this information.
I like that idea, and have wondered if something like that might exist. It would allow for actual "survival after death", perhaps -- IF it included the survival of the personality and memories together in a cohesive sub-entity instead of being smeared out among the entire universe. Or maybe the "entire universe" can isolate and make use of those memories and personality patterns of "you", sort of reconstituting you as needed or wanted.
Even simple biology is insanely complex and we are STILL learning about forces, mechanisms, etc that help even single cells function; I doubt very much that human minds can fully comprehend the nature of the whole damn universe.