I'm really excited about it to. I just wish someone would gift me the entire collection. I'll see if Mum has any on her sci fi shelf. I know she got rid of a heap of books over lar few years.
@holoz0r I'm not sure where I read this recently or maybe heard it but it's making em think that when we are dead we actually do totally cease to exist. Because there's only fragments of us left in people's memories that couldn't possibly reconstruct the entire.
My view is that we cease when all those who remember us do - we can't be reconstructed, unless time and space are more complicated than we think they are. Maybe they aren't and all is just a loop.
There are gaps in human memory. But there is a theory that human consciousness remembers all events down to the smallest detail and continues to function after brain death. For example, Nobel Prize-winning neurophysiologist John Eccles said that the brain is merely a receptor through which the soul perceives the physical world. The Soviet academician and neurophysiologist Natalia Bekhtereva spoke about the same thing. They performed thousands of brain surgeries and sometimes encountered the inexplicable.
The world isn't as simple as modern physics makes it out to be. I think the world is multidimensional, and the soul's energy exists somewhere out there.
I don't think modern physics says it is simple at all, to be fair. They are only theorizing until proven otherwise, and there is much to learn, always. Belief in souls is a whole other ball game. I'm okay with our consciousness ending at death, as wild as it is to even imagine nothingness.
I also don't care whether the soul exists after the body dies or not. I don't like it when people believe in something; I like to seek knowledge.