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What would it take for you to dismiss this theory as implausible? What kind of advancements in neurological study?I'm sorry, brocel, I didn't mean to terrify you.
May you find peace.
"Experience" is in actuality a very vague and broad concept. I suppose you could define it as some minimum collection of discrete neuro-chemical processes, but that's a very narrow, scientific definition that doesn't encompass the breadth of episodic, macroscale interactions that we generally mean when we use the term. In other words it's not a practically useful definition.
When I say "experience" it includes things like large scale quantities of sensory data that accumulate in a familiar or novel pattern from our interactions with the environment and/or other people. Things like "going outdoor rock climbing with your friends for the first time." That's an experience - a unique one in this case (since it's your first time). However, experience in the way I use it also includes internal mental states like your daydreaming episodes. Sure, there are no external sensory stimuli that form (or reform) your neural nets, and most people would not qualify your own delusional fantasies as "experiences." However, they are internal cognitive mental states that are idiosyncratic and measurable, so in some sense, yes, your daydreams are "real."
In this regard it becomes meaningful to classify your internal brain states as "experiences." I haven't checked the literature lately, but I would conjecture to say that the simple activity of daydreaming can have an impact on dendritic growth and shape your neural networks similar to how "normal" experiences do. It would be interesting research, and the results could have useful and practical consequences (e.g., daydreaming on your bus ride to your dreaded destination, like work, may help slowly restructure your brain to make that work more bearable over time). It may even justify getting "lost" in virtual worlds when VR technology becomes more commonplace.
It's not that I've never heard of it, it's just terrifying to hear it might happen
But it's just as possible that nothingness is what happens as well, so that is comforting at least
Some dreams, I can tell it's only been a few hours. Others it feels much longer.Your perception of time is not the same thing as the actual, measurable passage of time. Your own dreams can testify to this. You can take psychedelics and other mind-altering drugs to greatly alter your perception of time. That doesn't suddenly create a massive influx of energy.
If your theory is correct I hope it's one of those dreams where real world "time" matches my dream time
I can feel my nerves getting shot just thinking about this, it's a never ending cycle same with anxiety in general .
To think that if you're correct, that people who die horribly be it murder or rape or war or something that they may be in that state of shock forever
..Or maybe it really is just back to "nothingness" when you die.
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