• Question: IS LIFE A DREAM WE WAKE UP FROM WHEN WE DIE?

    Asked by EGarrett to Barbara, Matt, Ravinder, Sophie, Tristan on 10 Mar 2015.
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      Sophie Robinson answered on 10 Mar 2015:

      This is one of those questions that I imagine will never be answered! The answer is probably that this is very unlikely, but humans will probably never know!

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      Matthew Moore answered on 10 Mar 2015:

      Probably not! Whether life is actually all a simulation isn’t something science could measure as it only deals with our physical universe.

      Whether we wake up when we die, probably not. As far as neuroscience understands your personality, your thought processes are governed by your genetics and your environment. If you sustain damage to a part of your brain it will have a certain effect, there is no reason therefore to believe that your personality would be able to survive complete death –it’s most likely just how it was before you were born!

      Importantly none of us know, you know as well as anyone and should never trust anyone who says they do know!

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      Barbara Shih answered on 10 Mar 2015:

      That’s a very philosophical question – I would say it is probably not, but I can’t prove it either way. If it is, then I sure am having a very long dream that no pain can wake me up!

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