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There are some who believe that choosing to come here is like the show Severance.
You in the beforelife chose to come here for reasons unknown. You in the present life forgot all about that. And when you die, you will resume being the you of the beforelife, meaning the present you won't get any justice.
Which is why some believe we're on a prison planet.
I default to mindless math bubble does a chemistry. So long as there is no evidence of anything else, we're just obliterated when we die and there's no before or after.
But this place sure does suspiciously resemble some form of Hell.
We let the worst of us decide how life should be, it was not some natural order, cosmic inevitability, or resource scarcity, someone actively decided they can't be happy, unless everyone else is miderable, and we believed their lies.
We're all just playing the Roy simulation at Blips and Chitz
I'm definitely of the mind that "if hell exists, we're already there".
I also believe that reincarnation is possible, and if you combine those two things, and "heaven" is being able to leave this place and not come back.
I don't know what's actually out there. I know what I believe to be out there and I obligate nobody to agree with me on that. I also think that athiesm is a more likely factual belief versus any religion that uses a text book to dictate their thoughts; but like with many things, I believe the truth is somewhere in-between, in the unknown chasm that science is trying to fill.
My beliefs will always be that science is fact, any "faith" I have beyond that is just an educated guess at best, and when science proves something I used to believe was different than what was proven, then I am wrong and my beliefs must change accordingly.
It's a wild world, and I'm tired of suffering it, but someone put me here and unless I take "the easy way out", I'm stuck here for another few decades at least, barring any unforeseen circumstances.
The big breakthrough science needs is figuring out how to shut down the POV we have without making us unconscious/dead. Basically, how can one be converted into a P-zombie, and back, without causing unconsciousness or death in the process?
Or put in another way: What is the minimum amount of brain required to transfer my consciousness, and ONLY my consciousness (not including memory, language, knowing how to walk, etc), into your body?
Figure that thing out, and a lot of before and after questions become easier to solve.