Afterlife

We are virtual. There is no maybe about it.

What's in our heads has only a vague resemblance to what goes on and even worse isn't in the same timeframe.

Virtualization starts already in the retina. It has quick firing, slow firing, steady state you name it kind of neurons making the image already preprocessed before it even leaves the eye. Most of your vision is behind the sequence of events as they unfold already and yet has to enter the brain.

After being tapped by the limbic system the information is further manipulated, massaged and redacted. First on a very basic level, certain neural networks only see straight lines, others only see diagonals etc. Then when a bigger picture is synthesized it is being compared to previous images and store memory to fill in missing parts and make sense of it.

The resulting image is then passed on to your higher order preprocessing centers to make it fit in with the ongoing story being told by your 'you'.

That 'you' is already behind the actual goings on be about 0.5 to 1 second since that's the time it takes for all the data to be processed and presented to 'you'. (tests during open brain surgery have shown that lag between corporal action and conscious awareness)

So to all intents and purposes 'you' is a virtual entity.

As for all the stacks of spirits, i also see that as a major obstacle for the existence of actual dead people floating about. It was calculated once that we walk on a layer of 3 meter thick human dust if you calculate cadaver volume*total ever existed population.

If there is a real spirit world it must have some serious bunkbeds.

Ghosts don't sleep silly. I actually do not discount much of anything besides a God and ghosts and maybe honest politicians, because I don't think we have even begun to understand this Universe and it's workings. That would be pretty arrogant of me. Okay this will probably sound crazy to some but I woke up this one time and I had that feeling like you are falling when you start to fall asleep, except it was different. It felt like I was being snapped out of different dimensions back and forth like 10 times. Like my consciousness was entering back to my reality. The supposed dimensions are all connected to one another and I do believe that you can enter different dimensions while dreaming. Some say every single possible outcome for the rest of the Universe is already mapped out in these dimensions and it may be possible to visit your self that made a different choice somewhere along the way, learn from it after you wake up. Who the heck knows is my point. Really is that so far-fetched an idea because most of us can't wrap our brains around it?

No it's not that complex an idea actually. The problem with it is it seriously fails the Occam's razor test. All such explanations have one thing in common: They raise more questions then they answer which to my mind is a sure sign you are on the wrong track.

To me it's really straightforward and simple: Everything is pure chance on the right timescale. Working upwards from Quantum-Idiotics it's (to me) abundantly obvious things happen because they happen since on a large enough timescale there's nothing preventing them from happening.

Just random something (we call it energy) floating about and forming random things which solidify and dissolve. One of those things is the universe. And all in it. Also 'ghosts'. Which aren't dead people but just a thing that happens because it could.