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[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sam Harris believes in life after death?

[–] Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No and even if so then not in the way any religion describes it.

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You literally just said he did!

[–] Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You mind showing me the quote where I said that?

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I may have misread or misunderstood, but it sounded like you said Sam Harris believed that somehow you experienced a form of "rebirth", where you appear somewhere else after death, and talked about this on a podcast.

If that's not what you meant, I apologize, that is how I understood what you wrote.

[–] Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The podcast was about death in general and what I was talking about is just one thing he talked about. It's not something he believes in per se but just an idea he entertained. I can link you the full episode if you're interested.

EDIT: I explained this theory a little further in another thread:

I find the non-experience of general anesthesia to be quite comforting in two ways.

Assuming that from the first person perspective it’s indistinguishable from death then it confirms that death is not just some kind of positive non-existence. You’re not left floating in a black void. It’s not that there’s a gap in the movie that’s just a blank screen. That entire section is removed. You go from one moment to another entirely skipping what happened inbetween. From first person perspective that gap doesn’t exist. You never really went unconsciouss. You went from experiencing the drugs starting to take effect to waking up. Death is probably just like this except that there’s no jump from experience to another but experience just stops.

The another thing about this is that maybe death doesn’t stop experience. Since you cannot experience not existing then maybe death is no different from general anesthesia; you die here and then in an instant you’re (what ever that is) transported having some other experience somewhere else in a different body or into whatever that can have experiences. Perhaps this is what people mean by rebirth.

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Ah I see, sorry these days it's very easy to equate talking about something to giving support for it, terrible habit.

I blame youtube

[–] Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah no worries. I added a little more detailed explanation of the theory to my previous post.