/sci/ - Science & Math

>>10469400
Well friend, since you asked... Something can't come from nothing, therefore the creationists probably have the wrong idea. What's more likely is that there's an infinitum in which everything always has and will exist. With regard to the concept of infinity, there are probably planets identical to this one including every life on it as well as every possible variant of each of those lives located somewhere, some-time in the universe. That's my take on reincarnation. Now... How do the dead link to that?

Perhaps your persons consciousness halted when their brain stopped. What is more likely is that their brain, being the electromagnetic radio tower it is, has interacted with the universe in some very subtle way that will change the course of universal history - perhaps even linking to those other distant dopple-gangers across the infinitum using some frequency undetectable by modern electroencephalogram. That is most likely, though we are still unsure if consciousness is even a chemical product. It may very well be an integral part of the universe, which means we never die or live in the way we often perceive it as humans but rather in some universal... Centrally-decentralized network of being.

tl:dr your Granny isn't "gone"