Matter and energy cannot be destroyed, they onlychangeform
Yes, and the energy in your body is not ever destroyed. Your consciousness is electrical and chemical energy running a biological computer (brain). That energy is NOT lost when you die. Your brain will rot and be broken down by bacteria and worms, they will get that energy and it will continue FOREVER. The data, your consciousness, does not survive this energy transfer.
I highly suggest you read Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan.
He really breaks down how much of this speculative stuff gets taken as fact without any proof, or even with proof to the contrary.
It really is applicable today when people are rejecting reality in favor of religion, crystals, and energy healing. He uncovers the psychological processes that make this happen over and over in the course of human existence.
TLDR; It’s all bullshit (he puts it way more respectfully)
It’s time to stop the assumption that anyone who believes differently from you is an “unwashed ignorant fool.”
I’ve actually read the book, did you miss the part where he actively encourages the reincarnation research of Ian Stevenson, and describes James Randi as an angry little man who is impossible to take seriously?
Sagan was a skeptic, but he, unlike many modern skeptics, meant that he should be skeptical of things stated as fact without evidence not that anything contradicting his world view was idiocy.
Matter and energy cannot be destroyed, they only change formYes, and the energy in your body is not ever destroyed. Your consciousness is electrical and chemical energy running a biological computer (brain). That energy is NOT lost when you die. Your brain will rot and be broken down by bacteria and worms, they will get that energy and it will continue FOREVER. The data, your consciousness, does not survive this energy transfer.
I highly suggest you read Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan. He really breaks down how much of this speculative stuff gets taken as fact without any proof, or even with proof to the contrary. It really is applicable today when people are rejecting reality in favor of religion, crystals, and energy healing. He uncovers the psychological processes that make this happen over and over in the course of human existence.
TLDR; It’s all bullshit (he puts it way more respectfully)
It’s time to stop the assumption that anyone who believes differently from you is an “unwashed ignorant fool.”
I’ve actually read the book, did you miss the part where he actively encourages the reincarnation research of Ian Stevenson, and describes James Randi as an angry little man who is impossible to take seriously?
Sagan was a skeptic, but he, unlike many modern skeptics, meant that he should be skeptical of things stated as fact without evidence not that anything contradicting his world view was idiocy.