Afterlife (Endings)

by George Jelliss , Crewe, Tuesday, June 03, 2008, 13:36 (5804 days ago) @ dhw

My position on this is quite simple. There is not and cannot be any kind of afterlife. This is because our personality, soul, character or whatever you want to call it, is a function of the configuration and activity of our brains and nervous system. When we die all this is lost. Anyone who claims otherwise needs to explain how such characteristics are transferred to some other etherial medium. In response to your specific questions: - 1) What other evidence is there of life after death? None whatsoever. And I don't accept the scientific validity of the anecdotal evidence of Zink, van Lommel and others such as Colin Wilson. - 2) How do sceptics account for the comparative uniformity of experiences shared by hundreds of people? All human brains work in much the same way. - 3) How do believers conceive of an afterlife? I've had discussions of their views with many believers of all sorts, e.g. at Interfaith Fellowship meetings, and find they all either believe entirely different and incompatible things, or are hopelessly vague about what they think really happens.