Rodrigo Costa

@Infinity16 There is a MAJOR flaw in Grimes reasoning. Secrecy is not a necessary condition for a conspiracy to be true. What you need is a dominant narrative, which can be obtained through mass media propaganda and censorship. And if you control the narrative, a lie can be perpetuated indefinitely. In fact, even a blatant known political fact can be turned into a "conspiracy theory" by the use of mass media propaganda and censorship for narrative control. And, because the corporate mass media lost its importance in the last years, now they're trying to control the internet. It's not hard to understand.

In science and academia power always comes first. Truth only stands when it convenes power narratives. It seems to me, however, that there might be a distinction to be made between the consciousness that is reflected through the normal human state of mind and other non-human kinds of conscious awareness. Information flows forever, non-existence doesn't exist. But, in relative terms, it seems true that the things we describe from NDE, psychedelics (5meo-dmt) and deep meditation are a translation of signals. And the normal human consciousness might not really exist in these altered states of mind.

I consider myself to be more conservative than most people on this forum, but I don't see Germany, France and Canada as less authoritarian than the US, especially since 2020. They are not hardcore dictatorships (yet), but these western countries are far less democratic today than they were in the 20th century.

I believe we are rather channelers of will than containers of will. Will does not arise from our conscious rational intellects, or even from our unconscious minds. And free will belongs to the universe as a whole. Predictability is another matter. Individual free will might be negligeable or even non-existent. But since "will" belongs to something greater than life and humanity then causality must also expand to the universe as a whole, and it becomes impossible to make absolute predictions about anything outside of abstract logic and math - in fact, the same reasoning can be applied to non-living objects. We can, however, make reliable probabilistic predictions, which are relative predictions.

If you define deep sleep as such, then it does not exist as a first person experience. And the same reasoning may be applied to death.

@Joshe So, if there isn't a perceiver or even a feeling, then what you are describing is absolute non-existence. However, absolute non-existence does not exist. Therefore, death as absolute non-existence does not exist.