Not sure if it was posted yet, but this is what Hawkings have to say about the afterlife:
"I have lived with the prospect of an early death for the last 49 years. I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first. I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark."
"What could define God [is a conception of divinity] as the embodiment of the laws of nature. However, this is not what most people would think of that God," Hawking told Sawyer. "They made a human-like being with whom one can have a personal relationship. When you look at the vast size of the universe and how insignificant an accidental human life is in it, that seems most impossible."
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Thoughts?
I feel almost exactly the same way when it comes to this discussion, though I wouldn't label it as "Fairy story for people afraid of the dark"...
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For a brilliant mind, thats a pretty basic answer. I used to think that way until I realized that how in the hell can anyone be 100% sure what happens after you die. I think theres something we don't know about life, especially when you think of genes and natural selection and all the weird amazing miracles that have happened to get us this far. You can say life on earth is one big fluke, but thats just an easy answer. There has to be something we don't know.
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