I look at death as cessation of consciousness , the subject experiencer becoming a part of the object that is experienced. Looked at this way death does not mean obliteration but only an extension of the subject's existence. I look at death in yet another perspective.A person who is born becomes an Idea in Time and continues to exist as an Idea even after death.Thus all those who had lived and died before us are not obliterated but remain rooted in existence although they have ceased to exist in space
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Kyle Ruth on January 18, 2008, 3:19 PM
This is really interesting, it plays on the idea of a collective consciousness or collective memory. Although as an atheist I believe that thought is a product of physical matter, ideas can continue on indefinitely if passed from one generation of thinking beings to another.
Jeffrey Bowers on January 19, 2008, 2:09 AM
all thanks to that pesky thing called spoken language. many of us don’t stop to think how crucial language is; language enables us to pass specific information along and think as a circuit. there are other, more rudimentary examples of ‘hive-mind’ behavior in nature, but ours is very unique.
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