Nothing lasts but nothing is lost – william blake
I believe there is more than just our conscious existence on earth, but I’m not sure ‘I’ will exist when I die. Consciousness is just information though, the information structure that defines me as me may not continue in my head but information is everywhere and consciousness is everywhere. The information that represents my consciousness exists on the head of a pin. Whether that results in some tangible experience or not is a subject of much beard stroking.
That’s my scientific viewpoint. My irrational spiritual belief based purely on personal experience and gut feeling is that all consciousness is part of the same unit, subsets of the collective consciousness. Separateness is an illusion. When I die I will go back to the source. It will be nothing like the christian idea of heaven, no physical body. Something more like a k hole ;P As to whether anything happens from there (ie reincarnation), I havent made up my mind, but it would tie in with a lot of things about the world that don’t make sense to me yet.
