Unless you believe as I do that a metaphysical soul inhabits your body, there is life after death, and your memory continues on after death.
I really hope that you never experience it yourself, and I respect your beliefs, but I'm convinced beyond a doubt that there is nothing in there that is not chemical.
When someone’s metaphysical soul passes on, what snapshot in time are someone’s memories plucked from their Alzheimer’s-riddled brain?
But you worded it in a way that placates the insanity and undermines any value of discourse.
We don't get to Truth by saying "Whatever you feel like believing is fine"....
Consciousness is in many ways an illusion, manifested as a result of complex chemical processes passed on from our predecessors and developed over the course of billions of years....
Just because you perceive yourself as having free will does not mean you actually do... See the recent post on this site about people getting convinced they committed a crime they not only were innocent of but had never even happened at all....
This does not prove the non existence of an immortal soul† but proves that any effect metaphysical entities have on our observable (both inner and outer) behavior is heavily mediated by neurons.
† I mean this literally as I am not sure how to conceptualize the concept of existence for metaphysical entities
We are meat meacha controlled by pudding with rudimentary intelligence. This brings us great joy, especially when raising mini-mechs, but at the end of the day, we all end up rotting in the ground.
Sure to an outside observer we can be just a pile of molecular reactions responding to outside stimulus, but doesn’t that fall short of explaining your own consciousness that you are experiencing?
Just because you can explain things simply doesn’t mean it’s a complete description. “Simple” mechanisms give rise to complex behaviors.
It's literally just magical thinking, no different than believing you were created by the spaghetti Monster...
But you're right in that they depend on the mind being primary over the body.
But anyway, shouldn't it be considered good form to keep random unfalsifiable beliefs to oneself since they can't be part of a conversation on reality?