Wednesday, September 3, 2008

What Do You Thinks Happens To Us After Death?

The question was "What Do You Thinks Happens To Us After Death?" and many of the philosophers interpreted the question quite literally, stating things like “Nothing. We're dead" (Matson, U.C. Berkeley) and "Other than fertilizer--nothing" (Neumann, Claremont Scripps College) but I thought it was a good question that most seemed not to appreciate.

Paul Churchland, U.C. San Diego, said “I think that structures which make up our consciousness and mind and our moral consciousness. . . these can survive in a sense that they are recreated to a degree in our children, or in our friends or in our students…” and I agree with him in the sense that what we are while living proceeds us and lives but I as well believe in the after life or reincarnation of some sort. We do not simply just end, I believe in a soul that lives on even after the physical body dies.

I believe the professors where to hasty and did not give much consideration to this question.

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