First Law of Thermodynamics: Energy can be changed from one form to another, but it cannot be created or destroyed. The total amount of energy and matter in the Universe remains constant, merely changing from one form to another.
When you die, highly likely your mind travels to another dimension.
Your mind is not a concrete thing, it's an emergent process that comes from the interactions of the various components of your brain.
However, there is the most essential part of you that merely receives everything that your brain does, this is the part response subject for nothing more than being receiving the experience of existing.
And that part must be recycled like the rest of your brain after you die, eventually it may end up in another conscious being, and you will be able to experience existing again.
But in every way other than the destination of brain activity, you will not be anything like yourself as you are now.
Not one of your mental faculties will be carried over, the only thing that will be shared with your past self will be the continuation of the conscious experience of being alive.
That part of you that experiences being you is like a passive audience member watching a film. It's not involved in anything but receiving the experience of seeing the film unfold, no real involvement with the film's content, it just watches.
Though this is the part of you that you want carried over, it's the most essential you, imagine a perfect copy of yourself, with every memory you have, would you consider it to be you if you were to encounter it? Or would it be a different person from yourself? I'd say it's a separate entity, because you don't get to experience being them.
BTW, you don't need to die to experience being reborn in this manner.
I mean, this has all happened to you before, potentially more than once, even within your life, every seven years, all the physical components of yourself are replaced, that's no physical continuation of yourself from that person you were seven years prior, you merely remember parts of being that person.
Also other identify you as being the same person as them, as well.
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However, there is the most essential part of you that merely receives everything that your brain does, this is the part response subject for nothing more than being receiving the experience of existing.
And that part must be recycled like the rest of your brain after you die, eventually it may end up in another conscious being, and you will be able to experience existing again.
But in every way other than the destination of brain activity, you will not be anything like yourself as you are now.
Not one of your mental faculties will be carried over, the only thing that will be shared with your past self will be the continuation of the conscious experience of being alive.
That part of you that experiences being you is like a passive audience member watching a film. It's not involved in anything but receiving the experience of seeing the film unfold, no real involvement with the film's content, it just watches.
Though this is the part of you that you want carried over, it's the most essential you, imagine a perfect copy of yourself, with every memory you have, would you consider it to be you if you were to encounter it? Or would it be a different person from yourself? I'd say it's a separate entity, because you don't get to experience being them.
BTW, you don't need to die to experience being reborn in this manner.
I mean, this has all happened to you before, potentially more than once, even within your life, every seven years, all the physical components of yourself are replaced, that's no physical continuation of yourself from that person you were seven years prior, you merely remember parts of being that person.
Also other identify you as being the same person as them, as well.
Yes, it's all really weird and messed up.