I've been wondering a lot about consciousness lately, trying to figure out how it works/what it is. More importantly, why /me/ and why now of all times to be conscious? I get all of you are too, and it's just so fascinating to me.
I had a realization that led me to a theory of sorts, or at least an interesting thought experiment.
"Close your eyes and count to 1, that's how long forever feels" is something I was thinking about one day. Specifically, I was thinking about how 13.8 billion years went by in an instant before I have any memory of being conscious. The moment after I die, the universe will go trillions of years into the future until it's death/rebirth/whatever all in an instant.
Then I started thinking about what consciousness even /is/, and if maybe the conscious experience that I consider me is, could just happen anywhere in the universe/multiverse.
I'm not sure if that makes sense, but basically
Once you die, some amount of time passes. It could be a few days it could be billions of years, but it all passes in an instant. And somewhere, in some organism capable of being conscious, you suddenly manifest. You have no prior memory of your other past, you are just living a life of another creature from birth to death. Being conscious and alive as /us/ is just a thing that happens from time to time.
There's obviously no real way to prove any of this, and I'm not sure if I even explained that well enough, but what do you guys think?
Do you have any ideas about consciousness?
I had a realization that led me to a theory of sorts, or at least an interesting thought experiment.
"Close your eyes and count to 1, that's how long forever feels" is something I was thinking about one day. Specifically, I was thinking about how 13.8 billion years went by in an instant before I have any memory of being conscious. The moment after I die, the universe will go trillions of years into the future until it's death/rebirth/whatever all in an instant.
Then I started thinking about what consciousness even /is/, and if maybe the conscious experience that I consider me is, could just happen anywhere in the universe/multiverse.
I'm not sure if that makes sense, but basically
Once you die, some amount of time passes. It could be a few days it could be billions of years, but it all passes in an instant. And somewhere, in some organism capable of being conscious, you suddenly manifest. You have no prior memory of your other past, you are just living a life of another creature from birth to death. Being conscious and alive as /us/ is just a thing that happens from time to time.
There's obviously no real way to prove any of this, and I'm not sure if I even explained that well enough, but what do you guys think?
Do you have any ideas about consciousness?
