KI

Little something i wrote for KI...

‘…no part of my consciousness will survive my death.’

To say that no part of one’s consciousness will survive upon death is the thinking of a cynic. As consciousness can be defined as the thoughts and feelings, collectively, of an individual or of an aggregate of people, we cannot deny the fact that we have been granted insight into the “consciousness” of many great thinkers such as Plato, Socrates and Aristotle due to the fact that their “consciousness” have been immortalized through books and word of mouth and their ideas are still alive today. Is this not an example of consciousness transgressing the boundaries of death?

However, it’s not just on the superficial level of books and text that consciousness may survive the inevitable phenomena of death. There are many of life’s mysteries that cannot be answered as of yet, and one of which is the question of the human soul. There has been no proof that the human soul does or does not exist; thus could it be that the human soul does survive the phenomena of death and proceeds to exist in a separate dimension? Or could it be that as stated in the bible, although the Garden of Eden has been closed to mortal man, our souls, after passing judgment are allowed to live a life of eternal bliss in the garden originally made for us? Anything can be said about the phenomena of death, everything is a possibility. We would never know the answer, until the day we die.

However, on the flip side, it may also be true that death is the end of the road for the human consciousness. Once we die, we no longer exist as a living, breathing, thinking human being and whatever mysteries we keep in our head die along with us. When we bid goodbye to the world, and sink into that eternal slumber, that vast oblivion, is it really possible that the chapter of our book ends there? Again, we would never know, until the day we die.

The mystery of death has never been unraveled. Multitudes of hypotheses have been proposed and none can be debunked, due to the enigmatic nature of the whole question of death. Thus, we cannot really say that “no part of our consciousness will survive our death” nor can we say that “part of our consciousness will survive our death” because that question simply cannot be answered.