Einstein said energy cannot be created nor destroyed. So maybe, when we die, we become an energy that, by some ways we can’t yet understand, just randomly becomes a part of another living being… maybe a human, maybe non-human, maybe this energy stays nearby here on Earth, maybe it somehow goes to a random alien planet and you become an alien the “next life”… who knows?
Or maybe this is just another coping mechanism my brain cane up with in face of the knowledge of certain death, influenced by the Eastern philosophy that I grew up with? Whatever…
If it helps there is absolutely no reason to believe there is a privileged NOW and everything before is gone. It’s like believing that walking over a path destroys the path behind you somehow. So ultimately after a fashion you are more eternal than stars. You are an edifice erected in eternity from inception to destruction. Einstein didn’t believe in reincarnation but he did believe in a block universe.
A alien planet got obliterated by their sun’s expansion (or maybe they nuked themselves), so their energy/soul was just chillin around in space until there was enough biological vessels for them to get reincarnated.
At least that’s my headcannon on this, totally unscientific, theory.
Reincarnation
I just can’t get over the idea of:
Nothing --> Existing --> Nothing
So I figured, an unscientific philosophical guess, that existence is more like:
Noting --> Existing --> Nothing --> Existing (again) --> Nothing --> Existing (again) --> [repeating forever]
Maybe “souls” is just an energy.
Einstein said energy cannot be created nor destroyed. So maybe, when we die, we become an energy that, by some ways we can’t yet understand, just randomly becomes a part of another living being… maybe a human, maybe non-human, maybe this energy stays nearby here on Earth, maybe it somehow goes to a random alien planet and you become an alien the “next life”… who knows?
Or maybe this is just another coping mechanism my brain cane up with in face of the knowledge of certain death, influenced by the Eastern philosophy that I grew up with? Whatever…
The Egg by Andy Weir
If it helps there is absolutely no reason to believe there is a privileged NOW and everything before is gone. It’s like believing that walking over a path destroys the path behind you somehow. So ultimately after a fashion you are more eternal than stars. You are an edifice erected in eternity from inception to destruction. Einstein didn’t believe in reincarnation but he did believe in a block universe.
Many scientists concluded the conservation of energy long before Einstein.
But
There are more and more people every year.
A alien planet got obliterated by their sun’s expansion (or maybe they nuked themselves), so their energy/soul was just chillin around in space until there was enough biological vessels for them to get reincarnated.
At least that’s my headcannon on this, totally unscientific, theory.