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41st U.S. President George H.W. Bush Dies, Aged 94
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And tomorrow will be like today, only more so.
-- Isaiah 56:12, New Standard Version
(Score: 2) by r1348 on Sunday December 02 2018, @09:16PM
This is not how burden of proof works, and you know it.
An atheist might claim that our consciousness is the result of sufficiently complex electro-chemical processing in our nervous system, and when that system stops functioning, consciousness is lost with it. He doesn't have to prove what lies beyond death because he claims that nothing lies there. And assuming all physical evidence that we have, there's no indication of any furthering of our conscious information after death.
A religious person might claim different things happen after death, depending on belief system, to my knowledge there's no religious system that claims cease of existence after death, but feel free to contradict me here. Still, this person has to bring evidence of what he's claiming, and so far nothing even remotely rational was brought.
So yes, technically speaking we're all worm food, but don't see this as cynical. Our contribution to the species lives on after our demise, in form of both genetic inheritance and cultural contribution, or even for the simple reason of having participated in a productive system sustaining us whole as a species. Our consciousness is lost, our memory will be lost, but our impact on the planet's ecosystem lives forever.