Re: The final furlong
Originally Posted by
Longdogs
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When we go, we have no memory of the things we did so it wouldn't matter if we were Mother Theresa or a mass murderer, all that's left is other people's memory of us. It is difficult for us to imagine 'nothingness'.
I think there is more involved.
Memory as in immediate recall, yes, that ability dies when the brain dies. That memory is equivalent to the RAM chips in a computer. More RAM more memory power but when the computer is switched off that memory dies.
However I believe that everything we experience, every sight, sound, smell, feeling, taste and so on, is recorded elsewhere as a hard copy. This is equivalent to a computer hard disk. Even when the power is turned off, all of that data exists and will be there when power is restored.
I don't know exactly where all the human data is stored, but I expect that it is somewhere in the DNA/RNA and/or quite possibly elsewhere in the spirit/soul or whatever you want to call that other element which is actually our real self.
This imho, is why a new born animal instinctively knows how to do certain things without any tuition. The information is somewhere within their DNA or elsewhere and it allows them to make their early progression through life.
Tiny turtles hatching from eggs buried in the sand emerge and somehow know they must quickly make their way to the sea.
Predatory animals instinctively know what animals to prey on and how to catch them.
Babies instinctively know how to crawl and get somewhere.
I don't know the answers, but I feel sure that all the info is stored somewhere. Which pretty much makes a human being a walking talking video recorder, constantly gathering information from a wide variety of angles and perhaps all of it is being relayed to some vast central computer or intelligent consciousness which is learning all the time.