Ready or Not is actually making progress as a game, so I'm not going to write of that idea just yet. But then if that's the case, where is my banana flavoured coffee? Until I can see some banana flavoured coffee, I'm not sold.

Originally posted by 🎄𝒜𝓈𝒽🎄:

Your brain floods with chemicals that make you hallucinate, and the "afterlife" is just a manifestation of whatever your subconscious mind determines? What if you're dead right now and this is all just a hallucination?

What happens when you die in the hallucination?

I’d be more concerned with how my brain is continuing to cogitate after it is dead

Or worse...

Some particles in the near-infinite universe come together at random points to create flashes of consciousness.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_brain

Originally posted by Sir Dookface McFerretballs:

Originally posted by 🎄𝒜𝓈𝒽🎄:

Your brain floods with chemicals that make you hallucinate, and the "afterlife" is just a manifestation of whatever your subconscious mind determines? What if you're dead right now and this is all just a hallucination?

What happens when you die in the hallucination?

I'd imagine your mind won't let that happen, or it will only happen when your brain is finally out of the resources it needs (oxygen, glucose, etc.) to process the hallucination.

Originally posted by 🎄𝒜𝓈𝒽🎄:

What if you're dead right now and this is all just a hallucination?

Probably. The universe we are in doesn't really exist.

Sceince has alrady shown this is the case. So not much in the way of ifs or buts.

However, the "dead right now" silliness is unfalsifiable and not worth considering. YOu can never know for sure, so why bother with it? The "we're in the matrix" types of considerations are never worth worrying about.

Whatever happens, I'm going to keep gaming.
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/73/d1/81/73d181c4c160e9da47440af230916e53.jpg

I think everything in this universe is energy. That energy expands and made matter and life.

When we died, energy is 0. There is no video or drama. Things just stopped. Emptiness.

The people who fainted due to overwork or any reason do not experience any "after life" or "drama". They are simply gone. Their reaction is usually "oh I fainted?" all information has been cut off.

Originally posted by 🎄𝒜𝓈𝒽🎄:

What if when you die...

Your brain floods with chemicals that make you hallucinate, and the "afterlife" is just a manifestation of whatever your subconscious mind determines? What if you're dead right now and this is all just a hallucination?

It doesn't work that way... when you die your brain activity stops so the "hallucination" would stop.

maybe the electricity in your brain can keep moving for some time after the body dies. not for long though

Originally posted by Your_White_Knight:

Originally posted by 🎄𝒜𝓈𝒽🎄:

What if when you die...

Your brain floods with chemicals that make you hallucinate, and the "afterlife" is just a manifestation of whatever your subconscious mind determines? What if you're dead right now and this is all just a hallucination?

It doesn't work that way... when you die your brain activity stops so the "hallucination" would stop.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3619714/
https://www.news-medical.net/health/What-Happens-to-the-Brain-After-Death.aspx
There have absolutely been observations of brain activity after death, ranging from minutes to hours depending on species and cause of death (obviously severe trauma to the brain would be different from a heart attack).
So it is entirely possible that your perception of time could be changed by some endogenous chemical like DMT, or some other mechanism we don't fully understand.

Originally posted by Your_White_Knight:

Originally posted by 🎄𝒜𝓈𝒽🎄:

What if when you die...

Your brain floods with chemicals that make you hallucinate, and the "afterlife" is just a manifestation of whatever your subconscious mind determines? What if you're dead right now and this is all just a hallucination?

It doesn't work that way... when you die your brain activity stops so the "hallucination" would stop.

But what if the last firings of neurons and what we know about the brain are timeless in the hallucination? What if there is an even deeper level than we currently know about?

I'm not saying if there is or isn't, just "What if".

This isn't true.

Originally posted by 🎄𝒜𝓈𝒽🎄:

Originally posted by Your_White_Knight:

It doesn't work that way... when you die your brain activity stops so the "hallucination" would stop.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3619714/
https://www.news-medical.net/health/What-Happens-to-the-Brain-After-Death.aspx
There have absolutely been observations of brain activity after death, ranging from minutes to hours depending on species and cause of death (obviously severe trauma to the brain would be different from a heart attack).
So it is entirely possible that your perception of time could be changed by some endogenous chemical like DMT, or some other mechanism we don't fully understand.

People who don't believe in an afterlife... people who have science for a religion... love to try to explain away "scientifically" what people have reported as happening.

They have "proof" which is mostly theories that have no more validation trying to explain things that do nothing but what they set out to prove... try to disprove an afterlife.

TLDR;
"I don't believe it's true so therefore I'll "prove" it's not true with theories that aren't provable either"... that's not really "proof" either.

Originally posted by Sir Dookface McFerretballs:

But what if the last firings of neurons and what we know about the brain are timeless in the hallucination? What if there is an even deeper level than we currently know about?

I'm not saying if there is or isn't, just "What if".

Understood... but anyone can "what if" themselves into believing / disbelieving anything... but if they try to use it as "proof"... that's where things get fuzzy.

Edit: NO further replies will be made on this topic by me... this isn't going to end well.