I did get messed up by some anxiety and have these thoughts rolling through my head so I’ll leave it at cosmic horror warning.

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I’m not religious but I have thoughts about experiencing consciousness and what it is. I say that consciousness is independent of memory because we forget, clearly dependent on our physical body, etc. generally I do say that we don’t know consciousness so maybe it can be reconstructed (in the can’t rule out the possibility way)

So I can see scenarios were my conscious could pop into existence without my memories after I die (as I’m writing this I realized that’s nothing to fear).

I am trying to adopt healthier mindset of looking at everything in life as a quest, new things are a call to action, and that it’s okay if everything I do amounts to little in x number of years (worked out okay for ozymandias, right?).

Im probably just rambling because my life has got boring and monotonous along with actual fear of American politics.

    • Strider@lemmy.world
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      12 hours ago

      I am aware. I personally think it’s a load of religious bull, but don’t directly want to offend anyone wanting to believe it.

      I also know repatriation (I hope that’s the correctly translated term) which is proven to be planted suggested memories through that very process scientifically as far as I am aware at the current state of science.

      I do love reading (eg the game is life) playing with these theories, though!

        • Strider@lemmy.world
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          11 hours ago

          Fair request.

          I did some research into the topic a year ago due to my situation and came to the stated conclusion.

          So I tried to find some scientific research again right now (in a limited time frame of like 10 to 20 minutes, on my mobile).

          I first tried in English bot got a lot of hits regarding companies and since my native language is not English I don’t know what that word means in relation to companies and also didn’t want to waste time on that.

          So I tried it in German and was flooded by hits which offer that ad a service and as such of course tell you how successful it is. Obviously.

          I was not able to find the research I remember within that time, I am sorry.

          However in any case you’d be free to believe whatever anyway.

          The point of the information I read was however that people coming out of the procedure (sometimes, possibly also accidentally) get memories planted in a well known psychological way and it is a highly untrustworthy procedure.

          So that’s why I didn’t do it. I have enough to cope with and don’t need additional fictional issues added to that 😁