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You cannot believe in afterlife without believing your simulated reality.
Looking into abstract philosophical concept of reincarnation through lenses of simulation hypothesis.
Death is defined as the irreversible end of all biological and physical functions in an organism, leaving a ‘eternal’ question about ‘what happens to consciousness? Definitely, human existence is beyond a physical structure, and presumably death may not be the point of the total termination of existence.
Possibilities?
Socrates, facing his own death, reflected on death’s core, and summarized two fundamental speculations concerning fate of his consciousness after death. The first scenario included a delicate transition of the soul or consciousness to another state, and the alternative scenario considered death as (eternal) oblivion — an utter termination of consciousness.
While the fear of death is inherently biological and thus obvious to humans and animals, fear of nothingness of afterlife may be purely ‘human’ and…