@MalReynolds@slrpnk.net @science@lemmy.worldThat's... highly interesting, thanks for recommending it! I'll be pondering on this reading.Perhaps we all emerge again at the big crunchAs someone who believes in some kind of cyclical cosmos (Ordo ab Chao, Chao ab Ordine), it pretty much matches the way I try to make sense of it religiously, although I also believe (or, deep inside, I want to believe) there's a chance that this cosmic cycle is able to grind to a halt somehow, due to how, scientifically speaking, decay is something observed for cyclical processes (e.g. in the water cycle, some water is always "lost" from the water cycle, not "lost" as matter stuff, but "lost" as recyclable water; similar thing happens for nitrogen cycle and carbon cycle and even the biological food web/transfer of energy from plants to herbivores to carnivores; even orbiting undergo decay as the orbiting cycles repeat; cycles aren't 100% efficient because of an omnipresent decay) and this may apply for information as well (the transformation of information wouldn't be 100% efficient and would be subjected to this decay). We shall think of decay not as "loss" (because it would violate Conservation of Energy), but as a branching and merging between parallel cycles going on (e.g. in a nutshell, the water lost from earthly water cycles becomes part of other cycles, such as sparse H2O molecules as vapor ending up escaping to outer space, never getting to precipitate as rain, and becoming eventually attracted by orbiting stuff such as falling towards asteroids or into the Moon, falling towards planets at vicinity, or falling towards to the Sun (less likely due to how it requires a higher delta-v), as chaotically as n-body orbits can get)Then there's a hypothesis "zero-sum universe" stating that the overall energy from the entire universe sums up to exactly zero, so the whole universe is also accounted when it comes to the laws of conservation of energy. If fluctuations decay as the cycles happen, this can still add up to zero, until everything is infinitesimally close to zero.But, again, I'm highly speculating across several, seemingly unrelated concepts (which somehow "click" in my ND mind). In the end of the day, it's something seemingly beyond what we, with scientific rigor, could empirically get to observe and prove.

@QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works @science@lemmy.worldare you saying that we wake up again after death(Disclaimer: I'm being while trying to connect scientific principles and hypotheses. I'm aware this is not strict science, even though I'm to keep my religious beliefs aside.)Much to the opposite, akin to a PC which was powered off forever. The transition between "powered-on" and "forever powered-off" states is something unexpected to the "software" (the "sentience" emerged inside our brains). Living beings, especially those with nervous system like us, are wired to being alive, and death is unexpected and unknown state, so this "transition" (dying) is confusing. As all senses across the body become numb, adaptiveness plays a role, with the cortices trying to compensate for the lack of sensory input (including inputs from within the brain itself, as synapses begin to fail), including a heightened activity of long-term memory as it tries to remember what exactly led to this "dying" state (part of fight-or-flight response): there's the Near-Death Experience ppl often recall experiencing after effectively dying but getting to be reanimated.I believe there's an extra-baryonic factor in play too (what spiritualists would call "spiritual realm" would be another "brane" from a multibrane cosmos, with everything having "spiritual matter", not necessarily self-rearranging ("living") and the so-called "soul" merely another emergent property of a physical structure made of "spiritual stuff", akin to a baryonic sentience), but it's belief so I'm keeping this out.As the emergent properties within sentience are inexorably bounded to its "hardware" (i.e. the body and its nervous system), the way matter is constantly subjected to entropy is an intrinsic part of cognition (i.e. brain gets wired and accustomed to the effects of entropy, trying to adapt as the years pass and aging happens, just like (geologically) life adapted outside water during Late Devonian and (individually) astronauts aboard ISS become accustomed and develop muscle memory for microgravity motion).This means, if Black Hole Cosmology is to be considered, that the effects of "existing inside a black hole" are indirect part of how life adapts (e.g. adapting to the way time "stretches" as the years pass). The energy within matter (chemical reactions that keep happening even after death, especially those from decomposition processes) means that the physical structure from which "sentience" emerged will be subjected to the entropy long after being rendered unable to self-rearrange as living being. The brain may've died, but its organic molecules are still undergoing reactions at the microscopic level, until being completely transformed by decomposition and eventually fossilized. As there's no working memory registering mechanisms anymore, it's essentially "undergoing time without registering it", pretty much akin to the "time gap from general anesthesia".