What exactly is the universe for those now dead? What about for the never-to-be born? All cultures have created myths about the dead, so it's difficult as it is to accept that our consciousness can just go away the minute our oxygen pump fails to power our brain, but what does consciousness mean for those combinations of DNA that never started, not ever will be?
I think that it is just as hard to understand how consciousness emerges & dies as it is to grasp the idea on how something, the stuff of the universe, erupted out of nothing. Was there an actual CREATION or was there always something? Could there even be nothing if there were no one to know there was nothing?
The more I try to understand these crazy questions, the more I feel like I'm on the edge of either true enlightenment or absolute madness.
