[Lambdanaut]

Death is just the name we give to the moment when the condensed energy that is moving this system that calls itself a body breaks down into a temporarily simpler state.

At some point I'll get caught up in some whirlpool of energy and find myself crawling out of some uterus again as I have time and time again for all of eternity.

Yippee.

[alonsonic]

So you define yourself as energy? Not your conscience? Because your conscience and sense of self is what most people would describe as gone when you die, and that's where the fear comes from. Energy has no feelings, no conscience, no self...

[Lambdanaut]

> So you define yourself as energy? Not your conscience?

No division.

> Energy has no feelings, no conscience, no self

Where did you get that idea?

[digging]

> Energy has no feelings, no conscience, no self

> Where did you get that idea?

It is not an idea that one needs to have given to them. It is the simple conclusion of known physics. However, the claim that "energy has consciousness" is a non-obvious idea, which can't be derived from the evidence and mathematics we use to describe the universe. It should be supported if you believe it. It would be an important learning about the universe. That, or you're redefining "energy" as "any system that contains energy," (including a human being, which very few would define as "pure energy").

Is there any meaning to this position you're taking? Does it support predictions about the world? Does it change how you think about the world?

[jewayne]

Even if that is true, the actual you is just as assuredly dead.

[Lambdanaut]

"Actual me"?

I'm the sea of energy from which all life and death springs from. We all live and die in it.

[jewayne]

Is that what you signed on your driver's license?

[mensetmanusman]

Bubbling and flickering like a candle in and out of the background consciousness of existence.